[Request] Don't use brackets unless you're posting an actual hack

Enough of this. Before it was just petty, insignificant annoyance, now it is a full-blown, 100% pet peeve. The reason people put [Release] before the title of their post is that we know that it is actually a hack, and not a silly request. If all the requests start with [Request] then it defeats the purpose. Maybe I'm going overboard with this, but I'd rather everybody read this and think I'm an a-hole than come to this forum and see [Request] after [Request], and then bit(h about it another thread in another forum so the people who do it don't even know that they are pissing me and several other people off.

I'm sorry this is not a hack - but enough is enough, it was time for an intervention.

-jim

I agree 100%. I think this has been talking about in the Chit Chat forum quite a bit, but like you said most people who do it wouldn't even know its bothering people because they only come to the boards so that they can have other people try to make something for them.
Well, annoying the people that CAN make the hacks, doesn't really make them to do work on it know does it?

Not that I am a hacker or anything, so I can't speak for the hackers, but I know if I were one, that's how I would feel. I would not be in any rush to help out people that are simply annoying.

I didn't even know it was a bother, but I guess I can see what you mean, thank goodness for fast boards huh

it wasn't a big until until recently, when this board was full of requests instead of actual hacks.
Lots of people would click the [REQUEST] without realizing it was a request, not a hack.
What's the point of the [REQUEST], if you post something in this board that isn't a hack, then it should be a request regardless, so its useless, AND annoying

Uhh... didn't you start this thread with what you are trying to eliminate?? hehe

Why not start using a different prefix for requests? Not all discussions in the hacks forum are going to be requests for a new hack. Some are going to be asking for clarification on an existing one, or just a general hack conversation.

How bout -Request- or <Request> ... anything that looks a bit different...

Aaron just doesn't seem to get it. Can't you post a request without calling it a request? Usually people can tell by the title what it is - a request or a question. The point of the [Release] is so it stands out from all the nonsense. If all the nonsense looks the same as the releases, it doesn't matter.

The point is that it was such a good idea to put [Release] before an actual release - but it got spoiled when every request started the same way. The thing is, obviously it is a request if it's not a [Release]. It's a simple thing that would make everyone happy.

-jim

Originally posted by AaronB
Not all discussions in the hacks forum are going to be requests for a new hack. Some are going to be asking for clarification on an existing one, or just a general hack conversation.

If you have a question about an existing hack, you should post it as a reply to the original [RELEASE] thread of that hack, because that is where the releasers of the hacks look for people that need help, and thats the best and quickest way to get help. And as for a "general hack conversation", what would that be exactly?

I am sorry that I have offended with the following things that I have done:
1)Replying to this thread trying to come up with another option for the [request] prefix. I am fairly new to the board and thought it was useful to see that others had requested something that I was interested in. I am sorry that

Aaron just doesn't seem to get it.

he is just trying to be helpful.
2)Posting another post with the prefix of [request]. I hadn't read this thread yet, and when I posted a reply to my own question to put it back to the top for a fresh look... I get a snide remark from Mr. JimF

Being one of the new kids on the block I am sorry I don't know all the rules of this forum. As a newbie I liked the [request] prefix and just tried to offer another possible solution. I had thought that this forum had helpful people in it... and I am sure that some are. I guess there are others that just need to rip someone down just for voicing their opinion.

For thetakerfan: While granted the board is fairly small now, I expect it to grow a lot in the future. It's easy to find the release post now, but down the road someone may download it on the side and not know there was a post to reply to.

"general hack conversation" would be the following threads that I see right now:
- "vbhackers.com" just announcing a website about hacking (I guess this could be a [RELEASE] prefix thing =)
- "Icons at the top...how do you change them?" not really a specific hack, but would be where I as a newbie would go to ask it.

AaronB-If I offended you in any way, or seemed to be rude towards you in specific, I did not mean it. Nothing I said was directed towards you, it was directed too all the people that use the [REQUEST] prefix. You are new, ok, but most of the people that use it aren't, and they have been here long enough. This is also not the first time its been talked about, but the same people continue to use it regardless. By doing so, "newbies" think thats what everyone does and that its usefull. I am not putting the blame on you, I'm blaming the people that have been here for awhile already.

And just so you know, again I don't mean to sound rude, but I want to clear this up

- "vbhackers.com" just announcing a website about hacking (I guess this could be a [RELEASE] prefix thing =)
- "Icons at the top...how do you change them?" not really a specific hack, but would be where I as a newbie would go to ask it.

the vbhackers.com post could, and probably should be in the "Chit Chat forum, because it is not directly related to A specific hack.
the icons on top post should be in the templates forum.

That's part of the point me and Jim were trying to make. This forum is supposed to be for hacks. If you really want to get specific, the desc of this board reads

Drop in here to post, suggest and discuss the latest hacks posted by vBulletin users.

Again, I am not trying to be mean, I'm just agitated. Not all of which is from this forum, as the people from "the other boards" have been pissing me off, but lets not get into that one.

Until a Moderator says this or that and starts locking threads, there really is no "correct" way of doing it. We can all seem to agree about how it should go but that doesn't mean everyone will follow it.