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Originally Posted by hambil

Nobody has ever pm'd me for support on one of my mods. If they did I would politely ask them to post in the hack thread so others can benifit from the solution. I would not just ignore them.

I get an email whenever someone pm's me, or posts in one of my threads, and unless I'm away from my computer I usually respond immediately - even if just to say "I can't get to this right now but I will look into it when I have some time."

Wait till your have 5 or more in your box every visit and get back to me. I can appreciate your point of view now, I was once that way too. But I do have other responsibilities.

My ability to hang out and support every request I get has decreased propotionatly to how my responsibilities have grown. I got in this business for a reason. When I started I had more free time. Now my time is spent making sure I have an income primarilly. I have to eat ya know. Seed money only goes so far and then your have to actually succeed.

I dunno if you can call what I have success, but it pays the bills. That's got to be my priority now and thus, sometimes there just isn't time to help. Then it gets to be overwhelming. It happenes here on a regular cycle. Some of the names are historical.

I may not seem like it to most, but it's a sign of their success that they had to move on. I saw someone say so eloquently in another thread, please be sure to thank them and wish them well as they exit. That's a good idea IMO.

I hope you have that or get it. I'm sure trying my best.

Here's a thought for those that are here and will come here. Embarace the code, not the coder. Surely you should appreciate the coder, however the code is why you are here, face it.

Get involved in the code. Answer the questions about the hack you can,save the coder 5 minutes. Learn the hack. read the instructions, read um again. Test the features, even if it's one you think you won't use. Post in the hack thread, thank the author. Click install. Now do it all again.

Most of the problems here lie in the sense of entitlement that this is the place to come for finished products. That may be the case in some instances, but it's not what the org is.

The org is, IMO, a place for ideas. A place to learn. These things occur by participation and desire.

This place has turned into a glorified free downloads site for vBulletin owners. When there is no participation other then a few folks that can make the time to provide help and publish hacks, thing can stagnate. It's not fair to make demands on them though or you wind up with ticked off coders.

Things have to open up more in the free hack world too. I'm guilty of this, but I regconize that the attitude we own a hack and are the only coder stiffles development. To post a hack here it should be open source and branches allowed. In fact branches should be encouraged with the original work referenced.

Until an open source feel is created, development ideas and implemented ideas will continue to be guided by a select few and there will be no incentive for others to learn to code if they can't use the existing code base to learn from by example.

So, what do we have here, a showcase for egotistical coders or a basis for ideas coded for vBulletin enhancement that are free to take and run with in the name of community development?