[oldengine]

Of course, anyone who publishes their prized work for everyone to see and use deserves reward. Unfortunately, the type of follow-up posts that caused my initial outburst are far from reward, but clutter in the way of access to the publisher's works.

Perhaps an eBay style feedback forum where you get to post comments on an author only if you click install for the published hack. This way, the author gets a rating, plus you can lavish the author with your one-liner praises or otherwise.

At a minimum, all bug reports and revisions should be summarized and set sticky at the top of the pile. And, by the way, thank you for this forum. It has done well to get me going in my now five week successful adventure of moving eight years of WebBBS posts to vBulletin.