[Logician]

the actions of some hacker here that make us loose some clients

Please note that service requests forum does not stand for coders to make money, it is there so that vbulletin users can find professionals whenever they need such a service. So our primary aim wouldn't be to protect coders' financial benefits here.

Likewise I don't agree that coders should be paid after they deliver the job. If this becomes the custom, then I'm sure there would be complaints of some coders who delivered the job but not ever paid. Because fraud can be committed by everybody, not only coders. I remember there had been once some claims about some people here who hire a coder, get the project, never pay him and find another "victim" coder for further projects.

How people will be paying for a custom coding work is something that service requester and the professional should agree upon. It is not possible to label a method as the only correct way of doing it.

We don't like to involve with the relation between service requester and coder. We are not providing a service in that forum for neither party, we are just giving a communication tool people can use. How they will use is all their responsibilities. However we are allowing our members to post "warning messages" about any fraudalant actions they get through that forum so people are welcomed to post such messages in Lounge forum, if someone is stealing from them.

However I agree that many people are not aware the way of how to find a decent professional service (like ask references, get name/address/phone number and contact personally, see past work, contact with old clients, keep away from unprofessionals, pay only in the methods like cc, paypal etc. that you can file fraud complaints etc.) and we have plans to make sure people will get such a warning text whenever they post a thread there.