internetpilot - 2:00 am on Oct 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

There are definitely multiple sides/perspectives to this, I'm sure.

Regarding the censor, I simply posted links to two 3rd-party modules that claimed would allow PayPal Pro to work with Zen Cart, and then I asked if anyone knew anything about the modules. It was censored becaues they claimed I was commercially advertising the modules (?). I did later find out that the ZC developers don't like one of the 3rd-party developers I was asking about, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. I really just wanted to know if those modules were the solution to my PayPal Pro support in Zen Cart.

I am sure there are plenty of good people at the ZC forums. Unfortunately, I think the "bullies" that frequent there scare most of them away from responding on the public forum. In response to the thread linked above, I received over two dozen direct emails and private forum messages, most of which were very sincere and helpful. ALL of them said that there was no way they were going to respond to my thread publicly because they didn't want to have the "aggression" turned toward them.

If you ever encounter problems with Zen Cart and your store is dying, do you really want to have to wade through even a few unhelpful responses like those? I sure don't. But I'm sure there are people who can or will tolerate it to get the features that they want from a free shopping cart. It's all a matter of preference and tolerance. Personally, I'd like for my shopping cart support to be the least of my worries in running an online store. I do understand that opinions vary. I also realize that the tone of a forum changes/fluctuates depending on the active members at the time. I'm sure there was a time where the Zen Cart forums was a happy, "Zen" place, and I'm sure it will be again, but I don't think it is now.

[edited by: lorax at 3:01 pm (utc) on Oct. 6, 2005]
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