No one said that you did.
What you have done is paint the freelance devs here with far too broad of a brush, accusing them all of acting in bad faith, dishonesty and in some cases outright theft.
None of this.
I have only asked the question that according to my humble opinion, we should try to build a system that better protects the customer. And the programmer too.
Because I know very well that there are also so many time-consuming customers and scammers.
This isn't the way. They have systems in place for you to make them aware of problems. In their systems, you can get very specific, name names, and actually have some chance of improving matters. All you're doing here is casting aspersions on freelance devs, and spewing some nonsensical stuff about what you think happened to vBulletin.
Having been a vBulletin customer since 1999 and having managed about fifty forums through this software, I think I have, in my own small way, the right to express my opinion on what happened to vBulletin.
I didn't "spit" anything. I expressed my point of view as a customer.
I moved away from the vBulletin world for the reasons I explained, as did others.
You think differently.
No problem.
You offer no solutions, no specifics and no facts. You so far offer only anecdotal garbage, deflection, dissembling and broad brushing.
In fact, my task is not to establish the exact solution, accurate to the millimeter, of how to solve the problem.
I indicated a direction, you ridiculed it, but in the meantime I pointed that direction. You can't say I didn't make any proposals.ù
In addition to having brought my point of view as a customer, which then is the one that, always in its own small way, buys the licenses and helps to run the carriage.
Upwork and other such companies, ARE Mom. Their Mommyness IS what they sell!
xenForo is a software company, not Mom. It sells software, it's not a regulatory body. You want them to be, Mom. They're not Mom. They're not selling Mommyness and aren't claiming to be. Most all of us here, don't want them to be Mom. Most all of us here, don't need a Mom.
If you simply gotta have Mommy protect you from the mean ole world out there, as pointed out before you CAN choose to use escrow companies and other Moms as a regulatory body in all of your online transactions with freelance devs! Ain't that cool? You have the freedom to do that!
Your essential argument is, too much freedom brought down vBulletin and you're afraid it's happening here with xenForo. Your complaint is, there's just dog-gonnit too much freedom involved! YOU want it all to be much more authoritarian!
Bad devs didn't bring down vBulletin. Bad decisions by the corporate entity, did. And it would be a toweringly bad decision for xF, if it listened to your cries for moar Mom and tried to become our Mom. If you need Mom you can get and pay for, Mom. Don't insist on foisting your idea of Mom, on the rest of us.
If you want to trivialize the question, go ahead.
I have brought my point of view that, beyond any flame, it is reduced to a very clear and clear fact.
In my opinion XenForo should begin to regulate the relationship between user and programmer in the interest of XenForo itself.
Do you say that the cause of vBulletin's decline was not the lack of freedom? It is your opinion and respect.
My opinion, as a customer, is that vBulletin has lost its attractiveness precisely because the staff has not been able to control the many scammers and wasters who raged on the vbulletin.org site.
And I do not go further because there would be things to say, very serious.
The above is what brought me - and many people I know - to abandon vBulletin.
Do you want to ignore my speech? Absolute right.
But I gave you my customer point of view.