I can understand both sides here
1) the osclass team what to clear up the forums and not have addons and so forth that are not tested threw the 'marketplace' so there all in working condition
lets face it if a average user comes along installs osclass, comes onto the forum downloads a whole bunch of untested addons etc, there back on here again asking questions like, 'why doesn't this work', ' whats wrong with this ' , ' why is the happening' etc. Which no one really seems to want to help out with
2) on the other hand if you just made a new theme or addon on and want to share it with everyone else, your first point of call would normally be here on the forums saying , heres my cool theme or here my new cool add on , test it out here and buy it from my website here...
I can remember back as far as php classifieds (2003 -2005), that died a death after the team tried to make money from it, I then remember open-realty again the same thing happened, the team started to trying to make money from it, then osclass , I no there not trying to make money, there trying by the looks of things to have a good marketplace, where the everyday user can simply push a few buttons and get what they want, plus of course make money from that side of things
if you have like lots of people offering free themes/ addons on the forums, are users going to pay to download themes threw the marketplace?? Also all these untested/ unsupported/ not upgraded items are going to cause a lot of forum comments over time
when most devs/coders make a couple of free themes, they also most of the time add on a couple of premium themes that of course they want to charge for on there website ( this then seems to be a marketplace), I'm not sure making everyone have to go threw the marketplace is the solution for this, but I'm not sure
maybe there should be a level system in place on the forums allowing members like dizzle etc to have links to there website (marketplace) even if its completion to the osclass market, you have to give something but to make things work in the long term
if you have like <250 posts maybe no links in sigs etc, after this tho I think not allowing links for longer term/ established people who have been here for a long time doing some really good work could backfire on the osclass forums here and everyone who comes here for help support, feedback etc etc
