[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

If labels are important to you, then we can explicitly state "Validated Code", while having a link at an article explaining what this is all about.



It does bring sites to halt (due to a high server load that results in parsing of an unoptimized code), and I can give you some examples. I just don't think it is necessary. "A buck is made up of cents".





You are missing one: there is already a division: "Coder"/"Adv. Coder"/"Master Coder". And yet - there is no tearing of the community. There are, instead, coders who are struggling to get a higher status by making more useful hacks that will be installed by a larger amount of people.



Ah.. I see. And the "Coder" and "Adv.Coder" are like slapping a 2nd-rate and 3rd-rate sticker on coders themselves (according to your point of view)?



What I suggested in those posts was my personal preference, rather than a standard. From your perspective, one liners are harder to read, and I agree with you. This easiness-to-read, is, though, exactly what the vBulletin code standard intended for. No need for worries.

However, I'd like to point out that in one of those three posts I pointed out how to remove three (!!) unnecessary queries from the hack. These unnecessary queries are exactly what I'd like to try to avoid.


There is no such thing as "THEN". "THEN" the hacks will be already installed by everyone, and there will be not point in refining the code. Besides, you usually lose interest in older hacks and do not feel like returning to those later on. Esspecially if they are large hacks. It will be just physically impossible to revise them.

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P.S. Hellsatan, please do not quote whole posts, ok? You are making the thread cluttered and hard to read. Please edit your posts and remove the quotes. Thanks.

I will quote what I like thank you - Please do not try and control my own Posting style now...

Labels are wrong, no matter how they are worded...

It brings large sites to a halt - Small sites remain unaffected - Owners of Large sites would usually have the common sense to check the code and optimise it themselves - Assuming they don't, they can usually afford to have someone do that for them - Either way, your arguement is based on a minority of forums having issues with sloppy code...

That is not a division - It is a status - It is like Moderator and Admin - Your user title depicts how many hacks you have released and how many installs they have recieved - If someone were to release the same amount of hacks as me which had a similar number of installs, that would gain them my user title...

The difference between my title and forcing coding standards is that my way the person doesn't have the pressure of fighting against the stigma of it not being optimised to your liking...

If I release a sloppy coded hack, I don't want to have to justify that my hack may be great, but the majority of users will ignore it because they interpret the code as "Invalid" or "Poor" or "It Sucks" or any other way you want to flower it about...

As for everyone installing: That is what the "send update" feature is for - To alert users to new and/or improved versions of hacks...

Satan