My newbie experience with irc.vbulletin.org

[OneEyeSleepy]

I have been surfing the templates the entire night looking for something compatible and nice to use for our forum. Nevertheless, I bumped into their mIRC server and went into channel #vborg. After 2 mins of no responce, I went to channel #vbfans.

Frustrated with how their bad their forum layout is when trying to surf for a forum template in vbulletin.org, I throw them suggestions with a few comparison and criticism with regards to the new and improved PHPbb forum.

Soon after, a person with the nickname Floris (whom I later found out owned this mIRC vBulletin fan server) talked to me rudely saying that, making a suggestion is an issue, making sure they are implemented is another issue and paying for them is also another separate issue.

So what has that got to do with an unsatisfied customer whom has paid for a piece of forum software that cant perform better than expected, especially when compared to PHPbb forum? Before I could argue further, I was kicked and disconected from the server.

I logged myself back into #vborg and talked to a few person from there. Among them is fewyn whom identified him/herself as a personnel of vBulletin and also kicked me soon after a few lines of chat.

From the information above, I was told that the mIRC server is not an entity of vBulletin and I duly accept. I argued that any action taken by Floris could jeopardised the image of vBulletin. I was told that although I brought this matter to the forum of vBulletin.com, there is nothing vBulletin can do about someone whom is not representing them but is doing a good job tarnishing the product's image.

It would be preferable if someone from vBulletin of Floris him/herself could acquire a copy of that chat log dated 13th September, 2007 at around 1:00am to 2:30am GMT+8 time zone, in channel #vborg and channel #vbfans to get a clearer picture of what this is all about.

Thank you for spending some time reading this. I have already hated the vBulletin community. I will be removing the forum from our server because this goes directly against what we are trying to build here. I do not want to face this issue in the future while having to face another technical problem again. It's already stressful enough tweaking one.

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[Paul M]

The IRC is not run by vbulletin.org, it is, as you pointed out, a fan site owned and run by Floris.

If you have an issue with any actions on that server then you will need to take it up with Floris.