[CarlitoBrigante]

What's important, in my opinion, is also that forum owners should take the time to check the stuff they are installing in their forums, if they have the knowledge. The first issue with mods is security, of course, but once a security issue is reported, the mod is taken down if the author does not update it.

The issues that are more difficult to debug and find out if you are not good at programming or you do not have a popular forum (yet), are performance related. In general, if you have a popular forum with dozens of users active at any time, or with a great number of posts, you should be checking the code and effect on performance of every single add-on you install.

I have seen a lot of clients with slow forums that could not understand what was going on, just to find out that the problem was terrible queries (very, very common) or bad coding practices (like loops with single queries in each loop that could instead be all grouped in a single query) in one of the installed add-ons. Sometimes, these add-ons had been installed when the forum was just starting, so effect on performance was unnoticeable but became an issue as the forums grew in popularity.

One should respect the amount of work people put in these modifications and that make vb.org so great, but you should also take responsibility for what you put on your forums.