vbulletin has gotten so quiet

[sabret00the]

[high]* sabret00the thanks Boofo
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i really appreciate that

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Erwin

And you are not so bad youself, Mr Boofo sir.

Aw, shucks. *blush*

If I ever become half the great coder you are Erwin and half the template genius sabret00the is, then I can die a happy man and know I've contributed something to this here board.

[Chris Gwynne]

Originally Posted by Logician

In this community there is always 2 group of people: Hackers who release hacks, non-hackers who downloads them. Or non-hackers who asks helps and hackers who provides help. This was so in the first day this site is built. It is so now. And it will be so in the future.

There's a 3rd group too; those who do neither and just post in the Lounge to enjoy witty conversation and banter.

Anyway, pretty much any and every forum is a "leech community", no matter what the content of the forum is you're always going to get people asking for help and those who want to asking for it, or people just snagging off some code then running away without posting at all. No matter what you do nothing will change that.

Originally Posted by filburt1

Amy's point remains valid. The last thing that those who do not know how to code should do is...edit code.

Whilst her point remains valid to a certain extent I don't think it's anyway for a Mod of this site to act, hardly promotes community activity. Rememver vB.org is an official extention of vB.com

[Xenon]

Whilst her point remains valid to a certain extent I don't think it's anyway for a Mod of this site to act, hardly promotes community activity. Rememver vB.org is an official extention of vB.com

Erm, Amy is no Mod of vb.org, she has stepped down in the past, if you might remember.

[sabret00the]

just outta curiosity then, what does her usergroup status mean exactly? i mean she's got a nice shiny green username? she seems to be in some position of authority above usgroupid=2

and her comments are still inapropriate for that position.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

just outta curiosity then, what does her usergroup status mean exactly? i mean she's got a nice shiny green username? she seems to be in some position of authority above usgroupid=2

and her comments are still inapropriate for that position.

I *think* it means she is the Grand Pooba of something, I'm not sure. And that's like usergroup eleventy-seven or something like that. It's pretty high up there, I'm sure.

[Sketch]

haha. eleventy-seven. Someone has been studying the works of Bilbo Baggins, I see.

But I pretty much agree with what's been said. When I came here when I got my first vb board, I felt inundated by the people here. Everyone knew what was going on and even though I knew PHP, I didn't understand vb. When I tried to work on a mod for vb, I was more often than not abruptly told it was already done with a link to the thread showing it had been done. No warmth. No encouragment to keep on keeping on. So I pretty much quit vb and stopped visiting here.

Now vb3 has come and the stage is wide open. Very few hacks. Very few mods. Alot of the old classics incorporated into it so no need to try to port the popular hacks. vb.org postership is down so the clautrophobic feeling of thousands of members telling you to RTFM is dissipated too.

I think vb.org has an opportunity here. It's not a new community but alot of the crap is gone. Posting is down, but it gives a new opportuity to build this community into something better than it ever was. And although it starts with members like me, it needs to be helped in lare amounts by the leadership kicking in and steering the ship.

Aaron

[Chris Gwynne]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Erm, Amy is no Mod of vb.org, she has stepped down in the past, if you might remember.

You could see where I have trouble telling whether she's a mod or not consdering her username is still emblazoned with the traditional markings of a Moderator and she's also listed on vB.com as a vB.org Moderator.

So seeing as she's technically not a moderator, but still is, it's quite wrong of her to be posting such comments.

[MPDev]

I've never understood the mentality that moderators can't express their own opinions without being subjected to citizen moderating. Its like people expect moderators to be sterile and have no opinion whatsoever (at least not a negative one).

Drop the teacher/student expectations - this is a community site.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Sketch

haha. eleventy-seven. Someone has been studying the works of Bilbo Baggins, I see.

I was counting like that long before Bilbo ever came along.