Proposal: The vBulletin.org Commercial Services and Addons Directory.

[Sculli]

I am not in favor of adding commercial 3rd party software to this site, be it as directory or otherwise. Granted, I am new at vb.org, but for the sake of the community spirit that seems to have been developed and cultivated here over the years I hope that there will be no commercial hacks on this site.

Developers of commercial hacks are free to post free-of-charge lite versions of their products here. I doubt there is any better "free" advertising for them than to post a lite version. If their product is good, the community will surely support their development by purchasing the full commercial version as needed.

I can see the need for a central directory for vB hacks. My suggestion would be to take it offsite using a new domain name.

I understand that there are members who want commercial products on here, but I can also imagine that many valuable members will be driven away from vB.org by a decision to commercialize this forum (even if it is "just" a directory).