The State of this Forum

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<wacky idea>
Install Karma here
</wacky idea>

It would stop the bad attitude from older registered members as they watch their karma get whacked to the red.

It would let you reward good hack writers with a little appreciation and could replace hack count.

Anytime you give special recognition to someone who does something alot (could be posts or releases hacks) then someone will do it alot, shoddily, just to get on the top 10 list. With karma, you don't show any raw numbers and there is no top 10 list.

As one of those who 'sells' his work, why should everything be free? You paid for vBulletin because you saw it was a product that took a lot of work to produce. They can offer it for a very reasonable price because of the volume they sell. If someone has a hack that took 4 weeks to perfect and 4 months to test, this is a free market planet and if they can make a buck for it, great.

I honestly don't hang around the Requests room so perhaps I am missing the point of this argument if people are always replying to requests with bidding wars.. that is not the point.

I release almost every useful feature that I write for vBulletin.. free of charge. It's not always the prettiest code or the simplest install because I write for MY OWN site. I love this community really, but as with everyone else here, our own sites take up a great deal of our time. I don't always have the time or patience to make a nice install file for my hacks... so should I not release them? I will take a look at Chen's masterpiece of vBhacker soon.

I know what you are talking about though with quantity over quality.. I've seen more than a few hacks that were written in a bass-ackwards way or caused far too much dB load when it wasn't necessary.

Despite the attitude, I prefer this place to vB.com and spend at least 10 times longer here each week.