[Michael Morris]

I'll go ahead and speak for myself alone on this, but I'd imagine a lot of the folks here fall into this category as well. Not everyone here is that experienced. Every so often I go back and check my old hacks for glitches or holes - and I've considered deleting some of them since they are pretty old. For me at least, tinkering with vbulletin's code has been a learning process - and as I said over on the vbulletin.com site the code has made for an excellent teacher of php. I'm very thankful to the Jelsoft teach for reigniting my interest in programming which was killed a long while ago by some incompetant teachers and teaching techniques in college.

I follow the coding conventions as best I can and some of my code is no doubt atrocious to expert eyes, but I'm trying to both learn and also share what I've learned.

The only way you can even begin to get hacks that are totally consistent and secure is to go through a certification process which would no doubt shut out amateurs like me.

So, let the hacker beware. I - for myself - try to help as best I can with the stuff I've written, but if you install a hack by a member who has left or doesn't visit often you may be left on your own.