[kira]

Originally posted by gforce2001
I agree with you Freddie... vb.org is different... when i first signed up and bought my vb i thought it'd be quite the experience... but i seem to have been mistaken... don't see very much help and i don't know what kind of help i would recieve it i asked questions...

Hi all. I'm not sure it's necessarily fair to indict a community for not helping when you haven't yet asked for help. (Sorry if that makes no sense!) I recently delurked after spending months in the shadows, too shy to post. My very first post was a hack request, and only a couple of hours later, Logician replied with some questions asking me to clarify myself a little better.

By the end of 24 hours, s/he'd provided me with no less than three attempts to get the hack working properly, and the last one was perfection. S/he even offered me an alternative just in case what I was asking for wasn't possible. All this for a hack that no one else has requested, so it may not be all that useful to anyone but me! I'm incredibly grateful and humbled by getting such quick, thorough help.

Maybe I was just extremely lucky by having Logician be the first one to find me. (Obviously s/he truly enjoys hacking and helping. ) Or maybe it's the way I posted -- I was honest with my lack of experience, and tried to be as polite and undemanding as someone requesting free help should be. That doesn't seem to always be the case. (Some requesters are pretty rude in response to the hacks people provide them -- a service y'all are getting provided to you for free, people! Jeez!)

All in all, I think the vBulletin.org experience is what we make of it. If one comes off like a demanding idiot, it's unlikely that others are gonna be inspired to offer much help.

Sorry for the length. And thanks again to the supportive people who make vB so helpful!