[Logician]

Here is the situation of paid hacks in vb.org:

Some people think that they should be allowed here, some believe otherwise. Even the staff of this site are not in agreement about this issue. I personally believe they are NOT evil and an official vbulletin community should embrace them. It could be vb.org or any other new official site if vb.org is regarded as a free hacking community. But I believe having professional mods in vbulletin world will florish the vbulletin itself since it will offer more possibilities for vb powered sites.

However what I believe is just a personal opinion and irrevelant here. Jelsoft does not like them so their promotion are NOT allowed here since this is a Jelsoft site. They believe people should not use their platform and resources to advertise their paid hacks. This is a stance of the company who ownes vbulletin and this site, so we should all respect their decision.

vb.org administration announced the paid hack policies like this:
* We don't allow them promoted here by its author. Such threads and discussions are deleted.
* We allow their discussions by other members who have no intentions of promoting them, but just discussing them.
* We don't allow paid hacks released in full releases sections.
* We allow "lite" versions of paid hacks released here, provided that they are functional by themselves without forcing people to buy the paid version.

These are the policies that rule at the moment. However they can change in time in either way, if Jelsoft asks us (=vb.org administration) to change them. These rule apply for about a year and we don't get any complaints by Jelsoft so I guess I'm safe to say, for now they agree with these policies.

If you want to discuss this issue, feel free to do it. But please note that such a discussion is NOT likely to change these policies. If this is your intention, you may like to discuss it in vb.com so that Jelsoft can hear your suggestions better.