[Boofo]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Boofo - you're doom-saying again. Your vision of .org is of tranquility and peacefulness. Along comes an avenue to inform customers of paid additions and suddenly its all evil and seedy.

For all the fire and brimstone, the fact is that with NO outlet for customers to find reputable professionals for add ons, the quality and tone of participation has decreased dramatically here. How is the pessimistic approach going to 'heal the woe'?

Especially as all of the 'ive been screwed by so and so' happens because you basically created a black market for custom work. A directory for commercial scripts are far less likely to cause somebody to take the money and run. Why? Painfully obvious: The scripts already exist and any money being gnerated is from repeat sales. Custom work doesn't fall into this category.

Hopefully that may stop your sky from falling in

Maybe the only solution now is to start vbprofessional, and provide a resource for customers of vb. People can release code FOC or charge for it. It can be a joint venture with the coders there. Then .org can change its slogan to A nice resource for those that like to fiddle with vB'

Would be a shame for vB to have the weakest and angriest resource for its customers.

My sky won't fall in no matter how it goes. I'm beyond that.

From what I've seen in this thread so far, and the others before it, there are more against a move to commercialization than are for it. That ought to be some sort of sign, don't you think?

And if it goes that we choose not to allow commercial hacks here, that isn't going to make the org any less of a resource site. It's been doing fine without them so far.

As far as users being able to find commercial addons, there doesn't seem to be any problem with them finding them if they want them. There are a few commercial add-ons that are doing very well, and they don't advertise here.

And like Chris mentioned, who decides who's reputable and who isn't? As far as vb.org being "the weakest and angriest resource for its customers" if we don't allow commercial stuff here, that is YOUR opinion, not the majority's.

I just think it would end up all being more of a headache trying to police it than anything else. And no matter what Jelsoft decides, not everyone is going to be happy or satisfied with the outcome. This debate will linger on forever, in one way or another, no matter how it goes.

I'm done now. This is my final post for this thread. It just isn't worth debating about anymore.