[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by WritersBeat

This hack should be removed if it doesn't fully integrate with your own board. It's just not a hack anymore.

To use your words, that is "retarded" - a hack/mod is to add additional functionality to the board. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean its not a hack - where is the sense in your statement??

Bottom line is, I don't want to use another site to tag MY board. Sorry, if you're a search engine, do it on your own. Don't make other communities have to use your site to tag it. It's not right, it's messed up.

Who is making anyone use this? Is there some law that says you have to use it? Where are you getting these ideas from? If you don't like it, don't use it. Thats the bottom line. Don't presume to think everyone agrees with you because they don't - some will, some wont. Some will install this mod, some wont. Thats the way it goes. Its not "messed up", its called freedom of choice - we provide one option which people are free to use or not as they choose.

Bear in mind when implementing a tag search system that this takes server resources. Anyone who runs a busy board will tell you how problematic a local search engine is which is why you will see search disabled on MANY boards. When you use our mods all the server intensive processing is done on our servers, freeing up your servers to handle the task of running the board itself. So not only do you get traffic from boardtracker, you also get servers that are more stable and can actually then handle more traffic.

You can't say tagging in isolation defeats the purpose. There are many tagging sites out there and they all point locally. They don't use another service to implement the tagging engine.

They certainly don't all point locally. A vast number of blogs and other sites out there link to tag search on technorati, del.icio.us, flickr etc etc. Those that keep everything local are missing out on the benefits of the global aspects of tagging. How will anyone outside ever find tagged content if they are only internal and isolated from the world?

Release full hacks or just stop trying to promote your site in this way, it's just retarded.

Please stop telling others not to release hacks that they put the time and effort into developing just because you don't like them. If you dont like it, don't use it or go and develop your own mods. Your statements here are quite absurd.