Service Requests: Others can't reply to your threads.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The purpose of the Service Request forum is to bring people asking help for payment and people who can offer it together. It is not ment as a Project Management Workspace.

People get in contact, what happens after that don't belong in the service requests.

[Paul M]

I must admit I was tempted to skip this as soon as I saw it was yet another moan from the head of all moaners. There have been times when I would have found it useful to reply to service request threads, but accept that the policy is there for a good reason, as does everyone else (except you it seems).

[Chris M]

Every rule exists for a reason - Every rule has a good reason, but you are not always allowed to know it or are expected to understand it, just abide by it

Satan

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

Every rule exists for a reason - Every rule has a good reason, but you are not always allowed to know it or are expected to understand it, just abide by it

Satan

Well, a rule might be wrong or irrelevant. I don't mind people questioning the validity of the rules. It keeps us on our toes and ensures that we keep things fair. In this case, I think the rule is needed to keep that forum from being "spammed" by people offering their services.

[Tony G]

Just have your discussion elsewhere. There's no need for it to be public on this forum - as Marco said, its to get the help initially, and from then on, we're not the 'host'.

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Well, a rule might be wrong or irrelevant. I don't mind people questioning the validity of the rules. It keeps us on our toes and ensures that we keep things fair. In this case, I think the rule is needed to keep that forum from being "spammed" by people offering their services.

Well there is questioning, and then continual demanding for them to be changed to suit one person's needs

Satan

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I think the rule is needed to keep that forum from being "spammed" by people offering their services.

I understand (and share) the motivation for the rule.

I would like to point out a problem (from my point of view) that the rule causes--and ask that some solution be sought.

If I place a service request, a potential developer might think "Oh, that's a big job--he would never pay enough to make doing that worth my while" and so, not approach me. Or maybe he does, and he's right--it is too much for me.

However, there may be 2 or 4 (or 20) other people out there who would like the same modification (and be willing to pay for it). Now the scope of work and the pool of money to support it come into line. But they can't reply to the thread, so neither I nor any potential developer know about them.

This is why I would like to see a change.

Spamming by people offering their services is bad--facilitating the formation of groups (instead of just pairs) to develop modifications is good. I would like to find a way to encourage the second while continuing to discourage the first.

--don

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If someone else is interested in the same modification you are requesting, they can always sent you a PM. If more money is then possible, you can always reply to your own thread, stating the price went up.