[Revan]

Originally Posted by DirectPixel

I'm listed as a regular "Member". Does that mean I can't code? Of course not. Sure, I haven't really released any modifications, but that's not a requirement for knowing how to write good code, is it?

No, but it means you are not a coder in this community.

Originally Posted by DirectPixel

Likewise, just because you've released a lot of hacks doesn't necessarily mean you know how to write safe and efficient code, right?

But if all your hacks sucked balls and killed whatever server they were put on, you never would have gotten that amount of install clicks would you. Unless of course you released 1000 hacks, which so far I have not seen anyone do.

Originally Posted by DirectPixel

There are better ways to distinguish hard-working members of the community without alienating the rest of the users.

IMO that's a load of crap. This forum is not a place where customers can come and find downloads that appeared right out of the blue. Someone coded them.

I wish people would stop with this "ohs teh noes, coders shouldn't be distinguished from the other customers because equality is the key" schite. Wtf, this isn't the Soviet Union.
I can say that I think coders are more valuable to this community because we provide the reason as to why customers come here in the first place. Everybody who thinks that if a coder and a non-coder (in the sense of contributor to this site) both leave, that that's an equal shame, is pretty ignorant. A contributor is valuable to this community. Someone who clicks install on a couple of hacks isn't.

Im not saying that coders are more worth as people. Im just saying that we are more worth in this community site.