A Honest to Good Aggravated Criticism of Paid Modifications for vBulletin (Essay)

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Originally Posted by The Geek

So others should work to produce you code for free because you paid vB a license payment?

Code some of these mods that should be free and support them. Then you could easily stand there and criticise others not doing it too.

So basically, Let's See you do better? That's not an argument, that's a logical fallacy, people do not have to be an expert in the field to offer their own opinion on the subject or criticise it. From a site I go to:

There is a common misconception among fans (and people having worked in a particular field) that you have to personally be an expert on something before offering your own opinion on a particular work. It helps, but it's certainly not required. Whenever an ordinary fan calls out another person to try their hand at something (making a film, creating a videogame, or writing a book) before criticizing it, that person has lost the argument.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...bert%27s%20Law

Secondly, I actually know what supporting or releasing a modification is like, amazingly enough (*Points to profile and user title*)

Originally Posted by noppid

That is called the price of doing business. If someone is not in it for the money, they should use open source free software.

So if you're not using a computer for the money... and if you're not using Windows for the money you should Linux? Seriously, think arguments through before suggesting something that basically says no one should ever use any paid software or goods in their life if they don't want to make money with them...

Sorry, but while helping with a few lines of code in a thread is something some of us have time for, coding and maintaining a complete add on modification is something that only kids might have time for. And the point there is when it's free, you get what you pay for modification wise.

Considering Media Wiki, Coppermine Gallery or Wordpress, I'd say the 'get what you pay for' argument died with the recent internet. Then compare vBulletin to software many hundreds of times more expensive, and vBulletin does better.

Take a look around. The mods here do no quality control and when someone steps up and does do a quality control post, it's ignored. Think about it, a cool idea does not guarantee good code. Once again, you get what you pay for.

So? vBulletin.org is a free resource for modifications, if there aren't free modifications, then there's no point to this entire website. And I know a cool idea doesn't guarantee good code. But having the OPTION, there's nothing wrong with that, and if you want to take one product or whatever over enough based on code quality, that's your decision.