As stated numerous times before, it's not a measure of how good someone may be, it's called release level for a reason - it's a measure of your modification activity (releases) here on vb.org.
Thanks for explaining, Paul. I missed that part.
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Originally Posted by hambil
How come nobody with a hack that has a thousand installs ever makes this argument?
Show me a hacker (not a 2 liner) that has a hack with thousands of installs and is still very active at vB.org site. Thanks Hambil. You know your stuff so you get what I mean. And how come you don't release hacks, never? However you are very active on the Coder forums, helping everyone? You get now the picture? Those people should be rewarded first.
But on another note i think it would be cool to add to this with a clickable username which is like the one in post's, so it brings a drop down menu with a sub header then a link to their profile then another sub header with say "Release stats" then the body being:
Install:
Releases:
Favourited by: (Allow users the choice to have a favourite modder)
Been a modder for: (Time from 1st release to last update)
I had a bunch of hacks. I gave some away, I had the others removed. I'm going/gone commercial, which makes me evil, and rather than come into constant conflict with the owners and operators of a 'free' hack board, I've decided not to release here. I'm hardly blazing trails - it's a path many others have followed.
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However you are very active on the Coder forums, helping everyone?
Because despite some of my public conflicts that occurred here, I'm a nice and helpful guy. I help because I can, and because there aren't *that* many of us that can do the 'hard stuff' like heavy MySQL work. Plus, it just feels good.
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Those people should be rewarded first.
I don't know about first, but they are rewarded. I'm pretty sure your 'helpfulness' and skill level/knowledge is a factor in the subjective part of the release level. I however, have no releases on this board anymore, so can't logically have a release level no matter how helpful I am
I think the install numbers shall be taken off. If coders release their work for free why do they care about how many members install their mod ? I seriously find install numbers same as children ball counts.
Cheer up, eh? I like to know - need to know, in fact - how many people are using what I'm doing because it tells me if it's worth taking any further, worth supporting and to be honest was worth releasing in the first place. That's not only useful for what's done on vBulletin.org too. Besides, if a lot of people are using a modification that means a lot of people are enjoying it and making use of it and I don't see why that's not worth being noted in itself.
Besides besides, if it's not important then why make such a fuss about it at all? I could understand objections if it were flashed up all over the place and a big deal was made of it, but that's just not true. Unless you actively want to find out, you won't know what someone's release level is at all. All you'll casually see is Coder/Designer or not.
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Originally Posted by GearTripper
the system is flawed in soo many ways it's silly. how many instances do we have where we have user making a new release for every version of the same hack rather then just updating the original hack thread? that's just one of the MAJOR flaws. just this morning i noticed one user with 4 different releases of the SAME HACK. go figure that one out. if i cared more, i'd go into more.
That I agree with, though. There are a few habits that are particularly annoying. I haven't seen this myself, but vB's search is tough enough without multiples or modifications posted with the wrong prefix making it worse.
07-23-2007, 07:08 PM
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