Angry .Orgers

[Lea Verou]

Since, as I have understood the problem that the org staff is having with paid releases is that they don't want to give free advertising to the coders that have gone commercial because they are afraid that they wont give back to the community, then why don't you make a permission system, for example:
- allow only an advanced coder to post about commercial hacks. This way it will be certain that the guy has offered a lot to the community already, so this is a way of saying "thanks".
- restrict the number of commercial hacks an A.C. can post about to e.g. 1 commercial hack every 2 FOC hacks. The hacks that gave him the advanced coder title won't count. Fair enough, isn't it?

[cinq]

I second the a, b, c ideology that Juan brought up.
(a) buy it
(b) build it
Or alternatively,
(c) don't use it.

[AN-net]

i still think it would be best to form a completely different site from vbulletin.org, i do think commercial interaction could further corrupt/deterierate the community we have all strived so hard for.

[noppid]

Originally Posted by AN-net

i still think it would be best to form a completely different site from vbulletin.org, i do think commercial interaction could further corrupt/deterierate the community we have all strived so hard for.

This place will be fine and I'm sure the current rules can be used to anyone's advantage without corrupting the site. I think things work well right now and will continue to.

Damned if I didn't try otherwise!

Originally Posted by cinq

I second the a, b, c ideology that Juan brought up.
(a) buy it
(b) build it
Or alternatively,
(c) don't use it.

Who is this?

[immortal21]

eXtremeTim,

It's not all encoded, just the integration for the license.

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by immortal21

eXtremeTim,

It's not all encoded, just the integration for the license.

good

Then I fully agree with you

[plubius]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

Okay its people like you that are pissing me off here. You call us the minority when we were the ones who helped form this site. We work hard on our work. We are stepping things up to another level. We are no longer just able to spent the time on the stuff as we used to. We are making professional grade things and making things that some proble never expected to see. In my case im bringing some very high end commercial products that will be bigger then vbulletin itself.

You think that just becuase you dont badger us that means everybody else doesnt. vb.org is growing the community is changing. It is getting harder then ever to support hacks becuase there is more of a demand. We have more people that dont know what there doing that can break even some of the most simple things at time and we work to help them yet it eats at more and more of our time. Without being able to released our paid mods here our foc ones may cease to exist as time goes on.

I have said this many times. By releasing my paid mods and selling them it helps to support my foc ones. Since im not stuck spending as much time doing custom project developement.

And it is people like you that are pissing me off. You make generalities about the few and apply them to the whole.

I do not have a problem with allowing you to link to a site where you have some hack of mad skillz for sale, but you cannot garner any support from the people who would actually buy the stuff--non-coders--if you seek to debase them. VB.org is for FOC coders and board owners who do not have a big digit bank account.

Here's a solution:

1. Release your hack FOC. Make sure you signify that you will support as time is available.
2. Charge a fee for your hack on your own site, link to this site in your sig (pretty sure that is allowed here. If not we all are breaking the rules).

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by plubius

VB.org is for FOC coders and board owners who do not have a big digit bank account.

Ermm where exactly is that written cause I probably missed it.

Here's a solution:
1. Release your hack FOC. Make sure you signify that you will support as time is available.
2. Charge a fee for your hack on your own site, link to this site in your sig (pretty sure that is allowed here. If not we all are breaking the rules).

Then why would somebody buy the hack and not download it from here?

[cinq]

@all, we really need to chill and discuss this in a civil and cool manner.

Oh well, I'll just do up a sort of resource directory on my site now for free listings of all commercial vbulletin resources ( user submitted, pending approval ).
* whips out Crimson editor, gimme a day or 2

[plubius]

Originally Posted by Loukrhtia

Ermm where exactly is that written cause I probably missed it.

Mayhap, you are not looking hard enough.

Originally Posted by Loukrhtia

Then why would somebody buy the hack and not download it from here?

It may help you to re-read what I have written.

Your words are kind of scorchy. They wouldn't be flame incognito, eh?

Hello, cinq. It is good to see you around, m8. Wondered where you had gotten off to.