The vbHosting hack does break the agreement because it basically gives the user a complete vbulletin acp to work with. However, if the hack was restricted a bit more restricted, it would not be a problem. I have requested a similar hack on another system. Here are the features I asked for.
- Users can add their own forum
- Adding a forum makes the user a moderator of the forum and changes their primary or secondary usergroup to "moderator".
- The new moderator gets no special control panel accept the one normally alotted to moderators.
- The user does not get the ability to appoint additional moderators
- The forum creation form will look like the one in the ACP
- In the ACP, you will be able to turn the feature on and off
- In the ACP, you can determine which usergroups can create forums
- In the ACP, you can determine where to the new forum will be placed and in which order
- In the ACP, you can ban a particular user from using this feature
- In the ACP, you can decide which forum creation options you wish to allow the user to have. Maybe a checkbox next to each normal option (eg. title, description, html, etc.)
- In the ACP, you can set words that cannot be used in any field
- In the ACP, you can set it to ban any words that are in the censor list.
As you can see, this is just a shortcut to the adnmin adding a forum and creating a moderator. It does not break any license agreements.
05-01-2004, 10:09 PM
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