[Brad]

Originally Posted by noppid

That's how .org is run and it is not going to change.

Change takes time, this is not something that will happen over night. For example we have been discussing this amoung the staff (that includes vBulletin.com staff) going back to at least July, if not longer. Why havn't you seen any action? Because it's still an on-going discussion.

Originally Posted by noppid

If this new forum that is up was started by me or the geek, this thread would be dead.

There is nothing stoping you or anyone else from setting up your own forum for this purpose.

I submit, and I don't care how unpopular this sounds, that this thread lives because two people that work here can profit from it.

True if we were to charge commercial authors a fee to run ads here the staff members could profit from it. But I'd rather see such money used to buy things we would give away to the membership here (coding books, software, stuff like that). Honestly if I was looking to make money from Jelsoft I'd be spending more of my time answering support questions at vBulletin.com and less of it doing the day to day work needed to run this website.