can we clean the mods about Adsense ?!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=32

Shazz says it best.

[EnIgMa1234]

wait whats that got to do with anything?

Duplicates. They happen. It's better for people to share their mods than to keep them to themselves for fear of posting a duplicate.

[EnIgMa1234]

yes but people should search to see if the hack already exists. their has to be over 20 adsence ones, basically telling you to do the same thing

[Distance]

This thread has singled out to you Chris.. The idea of the post was to generalise all the adsense posts which are basically doing the same.

Also the fact a user can put

Find XXX

Insert adsense code below

to get Designer / Coder status is quite stupid.

[Paul M]

As long as modifications do not break our rules then members are free to post them. We are not here to pick and choose.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

Go to my site, scroll down and look at vBTrends if you're so inclined. I put it on my site, and they went up, so I threw it out there for anyone who might care to use it.

Maybe vbTrends is responsible. I should called it vbTrends - Improve Registration Rates.

I'm teasing you, don't get mad at me

On a serious note:
It's a dangerous road to go down when we start having staff evaluate mods. I'm not saying there isn't something that can be, or needs to be done, but, we have to approach this carefully.

It's not just a matter of being subject to staff opinions on new mods - it's also a practical matter of time. We'll end up with a 'new mod' queue and you'll wait weeks or months for your mod to get approved. I've dealt with this at SMF and do NOT want to see it here.

Originally Posted by EnIgMa1234

yes but people should search to see if the hack already exists. their has to be over 20 adsence ones, basically telling you to do the same thing

This is, as I've stated before, a fault in the search.

Yes, some people will not search before they post a new mod. Yes, some people will post a mod even if it is a duplicate. But many people simply fail to find other mods with the limits of search. Search was built for threads, not a mod database. We have no tagging per say, no naming conventions, and even the 'thread prefixes' that we do have are confusing enough that I basically don't bother with them.

At a minimum, I recommend implementing a warning on similar threads at the time the user attempts to post the new mod thread. This isn't hard - it's basically a variation on my vbPostCheck hack. "The following similar mods where found - you might want to review them before completing your submission." or some such.

If fact, on a similar tangent - I recommend the same thing for questions in the support forums. "The following similar threads where found - you might want to review them before submitting your support question."

Originally Posted by Paul M

As long as modifications do not break our rules then members are free to post them. We are not here to pick and choose.

my point is not to filter the releases, not at all... maybe more to redirect all these addons related to AdSense to a Article built to explain how to deal with this... there is none actually... maybe someone can start an article ??? or put them in a special Prefix... (so i can put them in my ban list.. lol)

and actually, as the articles are in a different part of the forum, they are not searchable in the Mods sections... as they are tutorials on how to deal with features, maybe we can have something made to search these too ?!

Originally Posted by Distance

This thread has singled out to you Chris.. The idea of the post was to generalise all the adsense posts which are basically doing the same.

I'm fine with that. I'd rather have a few extra mods laying around and a couple of people with extra titles than to have people with good ideas feel that they can't submit them for fear of threads like this. You can't really ask the mods to validate every new install, they'd be swamped with PM's every time they removed someone's work.

I have no problem finding the mods I need, and if I come across a duplicate it doesn't bother me. It's going to happen, and if people are going to get upset when it does, they need to lighten up.

Also the fact a user can put

to get Designer / Coder status is quite stupid.

Agree, but I don't care about what my member title is. I'm well aware that some people do, and good for them - it's just not my thing.

Originally Posted by hambil

Maybe vbTrends is responsible. I should called it vbTrends - Improve Registration Rates.

I'm teasing you, don't get mad at me

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Last I'll say: If I do something to my site, for my site, and I find it useful, I'm going to post it up and share it with my fellow vBulletin admins. If people take offense to that, it's their problem and they're welcome to PM me and tell me what a jerk I am.

Nobody here is obligated to share their work at all. If people like nex are going to start angry threads calling them names when they do, it's completely against the spirit of vb.org. Regardless if it's 15 hours or 15 minutes of time taken to add someone's mod to the database, I appreciate them taking the time where they didn't have to in order to share something with the rest of us.

[Dream]

So what they get a designer status... I'm with Chris here. Unless you have a staff member checking all mods to see if they are duplicates this isn't gonna happen. The user wanting an AdSense mod should be the one evaluating the available ones, it's better for him to have a variety to choose actually.

edit: haven't read the second page, I'll do that later.