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mcds99

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So many request for free scripts Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:40 AM (permalink)
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I think I figured out why there are so many requests for free scripting.

Google

If I put in "error 8004100c" (from a recent post) The first hit I get is that post on visualbasicscript.com.
If I put in "vbscript forum" visualbasicscript.com is the first hit.

It's like the slashdot effect   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

Now someone is paying for this forum and I know it's not me and at the moment I don't see a way to donate.

Perhaps (for the better scripters out there (not me I'm not that good)) if someone was willing to donate to help support visualbasicscript.com
they could get a script written for them...

Just a wild idea.
Sam

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    DiGiTAL.SkReAM

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    RE: So many request for free scripts Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:54 PM (permalink)
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    Sorry for revisiting this ancient post, but... I think it'd soon come to the point where the domain, forum software, hosting, and bandwidth woudl be paid up until the early 2050's .  possibly within a week.
    I dunno how many times i would have paid BIG dollars (hundreds at least) to get a piece of code written to make a deadline and be the 'hero' for my client.
    And once the above are all paid for, it is just a short step to becoming nothing more than another codeforhire site.
     
    Personally, I'd be willing to donate just to ensure that the site keeps going.  I know a few others would, too.  however, I think it'd start to compromise the 'feel' of the site almost immediately if it became a code for hire site... i know that I for one would lose interest really fast.
     
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      ebgreen

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      RE: So many request for free scripts Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:17 AM (permalink)
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      Well I don't think I've ever used it (can't remember anyway) but I like the idea of being able to say "You get what you pay for!" when I really screw something up.
      "... when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick
      Goog places to start:http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_24727/tm.htm
      http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm
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        RE: So many request for free scripts Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:51 AM (permalink)
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        Anyone ever hear of tipjoy?
        To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch
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          RE: So many request for free scripts Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:21 AM (permalink)
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          Just to chime in here, intesting site TNO, not sure if that would be a way to go but interesting.  And I agree with DS that doing anytype of code-for-hire stuff would change the feel of the site.  More people would withhold the code so they could get paid and the free flow would stop.  I have been here since 2003 and have learned a ton and that would not happen for new scripters.  With that said, I do not think the mysterious AdminKoe has any plans for the switch.

          Edit: Oh yeah, if there was a donate button I would donate.  But, putting up a donate button can also change the "feel" of a site and some people may not post their questions.
          <message edited by mbouchard on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:23 AM>
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