Let me be clear, the idea designed by you is not stupid, but the ideas that WENT with it....were stupid, the whole legal honcho babble. As evidenced in your "It was just badly handled" comment. I understand that you wanted to help
benefit novice administrators to have their adsense codes on their forum. Its commendable. I assure you that. But it was iB who 'intervened' and drove it down into PR nightmare. That was what I was saying. The whole thing was stupid. Could easily have been avoided if iB wasn't pushing the idea down the throats of may admins. What I mean by that, is divulge as LITTLE information [of their intention of the use]. Could have just said "this idea is for novice users that don't know the ins and out of modifying vbulletin. those of you have adsense on your site do not mind the idea" while the latter
DID happen, the former did not.
Let me elaborate it a little further, lets say you're releasing a new product that you want to profit from, but also benefit others:
Kier: I'm releasing a blog platform that isn't going to be free.
Ashley: Kier, no. Don't say that, at least not yet.
Kier: Its a platform in which we---
Ashley: STFU!
Kier: Its going to cost $150.
Audience: *gasp* Hell No! I'm not buying that ridiculous product!
Ashley: You see what you did?
Kier: A product's price is high because we want to--
Ashley: KIER! SHUT UP!
Audience: BOOOO!
This is just an example.
'preciate it, sir!
Well, you know what I meant. However, I will research a lil more.