New forum guidelines -- what do you think?

[Dalius]

Quite frankly, I think that people without a lisence do NOT need to use this site, only .com. Therefore, I think your username should be on the priority list to acess the SITE ITSELF.

[Scott MacVicar]

Yeah, but we can encourage people to get a vBulletin liscence by showing them what hacks are available. For example vB might lack a feature that this person requires and they could look here for it.

[Andy Z]

PPN, exactly what I was gonna say!

[Arsenik]

Sounds good but keep this in mind... I for one decided to buy vb after reading the vb.org forums and all that could be added and modified.

[Reeve of shinra]

I agree with PPN here ... only I feel that potential buyers should be able to view demo shots of the hack in question via the hacks database.

One more thing, can our information be hidden from non-liscenced users so we cut down the amount of IM's asking for VB.

[Reeve of shinra]

One more thing, this tight nit community is a strong selling point.... perhaps there is some way to convey this? Maybe take an occasional screen shot of a forum and cencor out info? dunno ..

[Soma]

One of the reasons many ppl go with vB are for da hax. So it only makes sense someone like to ask some questions here first. But the general forum contains more then before you buy questions. So I suggest a seperate forum catagory for those questions and delete anything else in them.

[TECK]

Soma, it was mentioned by FireFly in the start thread. the Pre-Sale Questions forum.

regards,
nakkid.

[SaintDog]

I agree with one of Nakkid's posts, I believe you should restrict access to everything but the pre-sales forum to those that are not licensed (after all, what reason do they have to be posting in most of the forums in the first place?).

I also think that non-licensed members should not be able to view licensed memebrs profiles. I have had many people contact me in the past via AIM asking me if I would download hacks for them and send them the hacks via aim, e-mail, ect. Personally, I find that anoying and my blocked list is piling up . (not sure if it has been done, since I am licensed, I can not tell.)

SaintDog

[Floris]

Put pre-sales open, and be strict to requests for templates etc, explain their options, do not go into explaining how it is done.

Let them browse the hacks database, so they can see the description, but do not allow them to surf the forum. That way they can not get the info from the forum.

Users who are registered, might be able to browse the forum, some might not have a license, but know PHP or otherwise and could be of assistence (weak argument here). If they want to download anything or get support, they should be a licensed user, let them enter the legal license information as required now for downloading anything.

As a guest, I can browse through the hack database and I can request some additional info in the pre-sales section. One thread in that pre-sales section explains that the hacks are free to licences vBulletin users, and that the PS-board is only for investigating about vBulletin, not for assistence or anything for those hacks. And the guest-tour ends here. They are required to register if they need more.
When they register, they have access to the other boards, but.. if they enter their license information, they have access to the boards where they can get hacks/styles/modifications/graphics and download them.
So, unlicenced registered users can get access to boards like Help, Buttons and Graphics and/or Language Packs .. I can imagine users from vBulletin.com hearing they can find that here ..

Anyway, I vote yes ..