Stop closing threads

[hotwheels]

well said........I had a conversation here a few months ago with a person that wasn't happy with certain type's of conversation here and felt that it should be set up like vbulletin.com, to where you only talk about vbulletin.com and nothing else. The person also said, that since this site is based around vbulletin, hence you can't get code without having a vb license, this site should be run as a code site only.......
So i recon, that is where this management team is going to have to make the decision, is this a community, or is it a coding site only. If it is a community, then certain members of the management team need to grow some thicker skin and let people have a discussion, even if it seems to get heated. Or, get rid of the lounge area, and a few other section's, and inform the member's that this site is code related only, and that ALL discussion's should be about coding and nothing else.
Right now, it is kind of frustrating. Alot of the great coder's are gone, not saying that we still don't have great coder's, but alot of them that donated for free to this site, are gone and they are truly missed by me. To make things worse, i have no idea where they took their talents to.

I wish i knew what the answer was to make this site a better place to be, but i just don't. I have tryed to say openly what i have felt a few of the problem's are/were, but nothing has changed in the way thread's are handled. I personally have had thread's here closed to, or thread's that i was a part of, like this one will probably be......

And if that means the hack threads should be made public to make others more aware when things go wrong as a warning to others to see and read.

I totally agree with you on this bashy, if you buy a lemon for a car. Just about anyone on this site would want their car fixed and if it wasn't fixed, they would go out of their way to share this information with family, friends and the internet......Nothing really piss's me off more as a person, then people having to buy something that turns out to be garbage and not being able to share the information, openly about the garbage that was purchased. Which is really to bad that they are getting rid of post's like that here, people should have the right to that information. Shoot, even vbulletin.com send's you here to look for outside hacks.......This site should take the good with the bad, when it come's to people's money and buying hacks here....
Right now, i have a mod installed called talkerbot,which i truly enjoy. The coder that has put the hack together has done a wonderful job. Only thing left to do with this mod is update the learn hack, here and people can teach their bot to talk how ever they would like too. The person that has redone the mod, has the learn code set up, but, it is only available to him (which is fine), but if you want your bot to learn, you have to go to his personal website to teach your bot and wait for the site owner to update his personal database, before you can give your bot new information, which is really a pain in the butt....but at this point, you are basically held hostage (i know that's a strong word because i use the hack for free), it would just be nice to be able to do this on your own database and not have to upload all of the other user's learned thoughts too....... and i truly suck at php coding, i have been trying to fix the above code to work, but i just can't do it and that is part of what i miss about how it used to be here........everyone was helping everyone and there wasn't all of this hate and discontent about talking about wanting code or purchasing code and having threads locked because it was thought to be to personal of an issue to talk about, just like in the example i just shared.
Anyways, have a great day all........