[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

You need a second one? That's one is not enought for spending someone 3 min to register somewhere? The coders needs X 10 times more just to short out which of 100's of the posts are bug reports, which are questions or suggestions etc.

I'm not entirely sure you get what I'm saying. I'm talking about the reason an average user might register on another site. I'm not referring to the reason you, as an author, would want them to. Those are two different things.

Like??.... From my experiance type of appretiation that I experianced are:

1.- Demo? Don't you have a demo? You're setting a demo and the next question: Demo account login? It asked me to register (usally a 1 min task as most demo installation does not have email confirmations etc etc).

2.- Very nice addon. Can you please add A... B.. and C? If you do the mistake to add something, then: Very nice. Thank you for adding A & B. Now can you also add D, E and maybe F features.

3.- In my site "mysite.com" I want to add this xxx special feature. Can you add it?

4.- I got error "xxxx"....... after 2 hours without reply, a new post with those red face icons "No support, Uninstalled, I hate xxx coder", even if a quick look in my postbit can shows that when the post made it was 3am for me.

5.- How many types of bad appreciations do you want me to list? There are dozens more...

As the developer of a handful of add-ons, I greatly appreciate when someone tells me when something isn't working. I want to know that, more than I want to be congratulated. I want to make my product better. The "thanks you"s and "Likes" are great, and stroke my ego in the moment. But, ultimately, feedback is the only thing that makes the product better. And if my product isn't the best it can be, if it isn't functional in certain situations, if I didn't make an instruction explicitly clear, if there's errors in the code or design, then I'm not doing as much as I could be to improve the community. We show each other appreciation by helping each other with problems that come up as administrators. We help the less experienced, and many of those will one day do the same. We help each other in fields that one may understand better than another, and create a situation where that knowledge is now accessible and searchable to the group. It's not about direct reciprocated adulation. The community would end up dysfunctional if it only worked that way. If a few people flip-out because they don't understand how that all works and don't grasp how free support is handled, well, administration is probably not for them. Doesn't mean the appreciation is not there. It's just not an ego stroke, which, as I said, isn't all that useful or helpful in the long run.