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Originally Posted by MPDev

Do not be afraid, offering professional services is not the end of the world - it's simply opening up a new one that vBulletin customers can use to their advantage.

I think the opposite - I think that capitolism will determine the ultimate success or failure of individual works. If someone puts up a mod that isn't worth what is being asked for, then people won't buy it.

The marketplace (i.e. you, the customer) determine weather a product is worth it's price - not the publisher.

That is business in general. If a person needs vBulletin to have an official site for paid hacks to succeed, they have failed already!

This is way out of proportion IMO. All we need is a good introductions forum where anyone can post their resume. Tell the community who they are and their experience and show their contributions to the community and announce they are a professional and for hire if so.

End it there, we already can have links in our sigs to paid work. vBulletin is already putting lot up for us to benefit from if you look around.

Originally Posted by vBSEO

Hi everyone,

As discussed in my previous post here, the preference of the Crawlability team would be for a supported commercial area here at vb.org in order to further support the community.

However, if you plan to launch a new forum as a centralized location for information on premium vB hacks, etc., we are prepared to support the effort.

I am willing to provide a portion of the funding required to launch and maintain the project including:

• vB license fee
• monthly hosting
• advertising budget (AdWords, etc)

I will also make the Crawlability team available to assist with various tasks and provide promotion from www.vbseo.com. And, of course, the offer would not be complete without a free copy of vBSEO 2.2.0 for the forum.

Please forward me a cost assessment when available.

P.S. (To the moderating team) Have discussions in the internal moderation forums reached any consensus on whether or not vb.org will consider creating an area for commercial promotion?

No offence, but this is why this will fail. All the alpha minded folks will want control and be able to use it to their benefit. There will never be an objective way to pull this off. Favoritism will provail.

I can see why Jefsoft wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole!