possibly "careless" is founded on something different: Being clueless in the the sense of unqualified: They do not know what to care for, they have no clue about the prices of custom software development, they have no clue about the patterns of quality software development, they do not understand the systems they are running (in terms of technical complexity or risk), they do not know where to find a qualified seller (and how to identify one at all) and they lack the financial resources to afford a high quality offering (while sometimes simply being greedy). They basically simply often don't understand neither the market nor the product they want to buy.
Unfortunately, this is in my eyes to a degree true for this forum here as well: There seems to be a certain percentage of people running forums that lack the qualifications to do that in a responsible manner. It is easy to set up a forum, not so easy to run it long term in a safe and responsible way. Especially if you want to extend or customize it in one way or another. A lot of the people that offer services here seem to come from developing countries - probably partly b/c the market for XF add ons seems not big enough for a serious business case based on western salaries and partly b/c the buyers do lack money to pay on that level or simply are not willing to do so. Still it could be a win-win-win situation for all parties involved: Sellers, buyers and XF as a platform.
XF tries to keep the offerings in this forum clean but in fact one often has no clue whome one is buying from, what qualifications they may have or lack and what quality level their work has. Which is in my eyes a huge problem.
Basically, in most cases, one buys an add on or service from an anonymous nick name w/o even knowing the country the person resides in or the real name and does not have the abilities anyway to judge if the work has been done properly (as even if it works it can be very shady code, as has been seen countless times). So despite marketplaces like fiverr make a living from this lack of competence the same problems do show up elsewhere as well (and not only in the XF world) including here in the forums. A high price alone is surely not a good enough indicator or metric for a good service (and a low one not for a bad service).
You are a good example for the issue yourself: Some people claim you would be said Fahrad, mainly b/c you showed up on this forum out of the blue, offering services, basically the minute after he got banned and you provided a somewhat strange story regarding your background and experience and - despite a claimed year-long history in developing add ons etc. for XF you could not provide any references or were not willing to. Which then rose suspicions, understandably in my eyes. A lot of strange correlation, but not necessarily causality. I've absolutely no clue what is true or not and also do not care - but it is clear that situations like that are a result of the possibility (or rather standard) of offering services de facto anonymously here on the forums under a nickname w/o any verification in beforehand. I don't blame XF for that too much (but a little bit) - it is a problem that is somewhat difficult to resolve, especially for a company as small as XF and in a market like the XF add on and customizing market. Yet it is a huge problem.
