I knew you would throw that bit at me where everybody deserves the same chance, and again I agree 100% with you Blizzard, but isn't that what the regular scripting section should be for?? All scripters, beginners to experts have the same opportunities as everyone else in that section alone. Not everything makes it to the database as is, and as you said yourself, that it only requires a template and a full functionality to be inducted.
And again, another personal opinion ...
Don't you think as I do in the sense that the people who have put great time in developing their skills as a scripter, AND who use those skills to keep the compatibility as such a high level are the ones who really deserve to have their scripts in the database?? Again, I know it sounds as though I am separating scripters into two classes and I don't want to, but I feel that the database should be used 'mainly' for scripts that can be added to ANY project with minimal chances of failing due to compatibility issues.
I just think people would go to the database expecting to find scripts that will work with their projects, and it is a huge disappointment when you get a big fat compatibility error, you know??
This is where I slightly disagree with you Blizzard - but I DO see where you're coming from.
By stating that I would 'have liked' to see stricter rules enforced, I'm not trying to discredit anybody, or diminish their chances to get noted for their work, I just think that if it's gonna be a database, it needs to hold only the best stuff, and that everything should be relatively compatible as compatibility has become a very important issue with the newer RPGMakers, since Enterbrain incorporated the ability to give no namers the chance to try their hand at scripting.
And again, it's a personal opinion that I'm making when I state that I don't think by separating the more experienced scripts from the less experienced, that we're counting out the amateurs. I realize that we are a forum here, and a community that thrives from the aide of others, but I don't think that the particular placement of the scripts themselves will discredit the lesser scripts.
People will help one another regardless of the script's section and origin. We are here, because we want to be. We are here, because we want to help others succeed alongside ourselves as we travel down the same, and yet different roads.
At least that's how I feel, and that is why I have been a member here for so long, and Chaos Project is my home page for the internet, and the only forum where I'm actually active.
I can see 'some' people taking offense by not achieving database status, but in the same sense, having the fact that it's not quite there yet, can give a lesser experienced scripter the motivation and encouragment to strive to be better just as much as those who may take it in a demeaning fashion. In this sense, only those who deserve to get better .. will get better.
We have threads here at Chaos Project that were built solely to insult other members, Lol, so if the members here decide that they can't take CONSTRUCTIVE criticism,(database restrictions) then they aren't really here to get better. They are either here to show off, or prove that they are better than everyone else. You know, whatever it is that kids do nowadays when they register on forums they don't belong on, LMAO.
BTW:
While the Script Index is an awesome feature on the site, it doesn't help the compatibility problems. They can find what they want sure, but there is still no guarantee that it will work with their projects ...