[RacerX]

Originally Posted by MindTrix

I think it is right NOT to have payed for hacks offered here because picture how people would feel seeing a hack released, going to get it and finding out there is a charge? People have payed for the bulletin board and expect everythign else to come free, because thats just how we are.

Yet there is nothing stopping you getting payed jobs done, theres forums here for it, people advertise that they will do private jobs in their sigs and everything so am i missing the point in this thread/argument/discussion?

You were willing to pay for a quality forum script but after that everyone should have to work to modify that for free? That doesn't sound fair to me for those that are not profiting from vBulletin amd are doing a lot of work.

I understand we all like things that are free but free only goes so far. Free often yields poor results. Free doesn't seem to be getting those of us the hacks we want and need to be successsful with our communities a lot of the time. Yes, there are a lot of forums that are plain vanilla and that is great, but there are others that want to create a fully customized community. No harm in that, is there? I don't mean for a second that all hacks should be paid for hacks... I would be happy to see some very large ones free as well, but I would also like to see the ones that are paid hacks put on a public list so we can all decide.

Actually, part of the point I am pushing is that coders not being allowed to sell hacks here does two things as far as I can see. 1) It deters more coders from creating highly custom hacks, and 2) people like myself don't know what is available, which in turn prevents more coders from doing the work because the people who would be willing to pay for them might not know they exist.