[Rusche]

Originally Posted by KuraFire

Spot on. All I can derive from Hillbilly's posts is that he's trying to get a hack on his name, no matter how unnecessary, and gets pissed when someone points that out to him.

This really should be moved out of the Code Mods for vB3 category. And maybe placed in a new section "Guide for new hackers: what NOT to do"

Well at least his hack is here, I released a hack a week ago and it was removed without any notice or anything

[NTLDR]

There is a difference bettween Template Mods and Hacks. Technically this is a hack as it changes code, yours was a template mod which doesn't belong here.

How about we keep this on topic now?

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

There is a difference bettween Template Mods and Hacks. Technically this is a hack as it changes code, yours was a template mod which doesn't belong here.

How about we keep this on topic now?

Yes, let us indeed keep this on topic. The topic of how much this 'hack' is unnecessary and can be done without file modifications and thus should be removed from this particular category.

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by KuraFire

Yes, let us indeed keep this on topic. The topic of how much this 'hack' is unnecessary and can be done without file modifications and thus should be removed from this particular category.

Agreed.

This type of hack should be moderated save you will see an influx of coders that will remove an option from the AdminCP just to become Adv. Coders.

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

Agreed.

This type of hack should be moderated save you will see an influx of coders that will remove an option from the AdminCP just to become Adv. Coders.

Well, it won't make them Advanced Coders. It's highly unlikely that a lot of people will install these sort of hacks, and you need a very high People Installed vs. Amount of Hacks Released ratio before you'll become Adv. Coder.

So the new titles by Stefan have some good effects, but I don't think that that's what people like Hillbilly are after. Having a few very good hacks doesn't necessarily get you as much 'fame' as having a ton of hacks that do little more than just work.

[g-force2k2]

SpeedStreet and KuraFire I don't particularily care for your attitudes. He found it useful and made it so fine, you don't like then don't use it that simple.

Originally Posted by KuraFire

Well, it won't make them Advanced Coders. It's highly unlikely that a lot of people will install these sort of hacks

To be quite honest my first hack was pathetic, everyone has to start somewhere and showing no respect to fellow hackers does nothing. Just some of my views.

Regards,
g-force2k2

[Boofo]

And maybe he didn't realize there was a better or easier way to do this. It's his first attempt. We need to give him the break that we all got when we started out.

[KuraFire]

Aight, I apologize for my attitude. But that doesn't take away from the fact that in retrospect this should still go elsewhere

[SpeedStreet]

I think its great you are all giving this the benefit of the doubt, but looking at this logically, there is no discernable benefit to said hack. There are a great many hacks out there that I choose not to use because they could not or would not benefit me, but a hack to remove a link from the AdminCP that already has the option to remove it provides no benefit whatsoever to the modding community.

That being said, I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to produce any and all hacks great and small. But like Kurafire,I don't believe that our hack database should be needlessly cluttered up with hacks that are hacks for hacks sake.

While even my original hack or two that I have provided has been somewhat lame, I still think that a measure of integrity must be maintained within our repository.

Anyhow, that's my two cents and I'm done with it.

[duncan99]

I think the basic principle as the forum title said" Code modification", it is a hack no matter how it becomes better or worser, useful or useless. Let the users make a choice.

I would appreciate his work even I don't use it this time, maybe I will use it other time.

[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by duncan99

I think the basic principle as the forum title said" Code modification", it is a hack no matter how it becomes better or worser, useful or useless. Let the users make a choice.

I would appreciate his work even I don't use it this time, maybe I will use it other time.

I would appreciate his work id it didn't `pollute` our vB3 Hacks database. That's my concern, and I think it should be the concern of most of us.