I remember the days very clearly when I would ask dumb questions. I even go back and read some of my old threads and say 'Geez, that was so easy. I was such a nOoB'. I will admit, a lot of my threads didn't get answered or I just couldn't understand how to do it myself.
So what did I do? Started to learn the langage myself. After a few weeks of intense reading, I began hacking my test forum. After weeks of late night hacking, and going back and forth from my PHP book, sitepoint.com, and vB.org to get some PHP question answered. I finally finished my very first official hack. That hack happens to be vBSigHosting. I was really proud of myself, and wanted to release it to the community ASAP.
I wanted to share with everyone what I've been working so hard on. So i quickly started created a readme.txt file, and started uninstalling everything and reinstalling everything over and over again on my test board. That way my instructions were flawless. After a few nights of that, I finial got to release my first hack to the vBulletin community. All the moderators here helped me so much. Stefan, Erwin, Dean, Chen, ect...
I was so proud of my first hack, it even made it in the HOTM thread. Didn't win, but I came in 3rd. I was happy for that. Not bad for my first hack. Because of that, I wanted to release more hacks, and have done just that. Now, imagine if they slapped me with a sticker stating my hack wasn't QA approved. All my hopes and pride would have been shot down and i wouldn't be releasing more hacks because of that.
No matter how friendly you tell a user that there hack isn't QA approved. It hurts deep down inside, and would stop a lot of people like myself from releasing new and approved hacks. My $0.02.
08-02-2005, 08:05 AM
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