Modding is a mostly thankless job. For every single letter of thanks you get, there are five or more complaints and bug reports begging for a response. This is also the case with modders in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, those intrepid programmers who infuse everyone's standard UI with some extra functionality, and it's also the cause of modding burnout amongst many of them.

Greg Tito has an excellent article up on the subject, talking about the lives behind modders and the things other people do to frustrate them out of doing the very thing that made them famous in the first place. For instance, Gello has had to deal with extremely hostile members of the community who turned the pastime into something terrifying altogether.

The tale starts simply enough, with a request for a German localization of Recap. After completing it, however, other members of the community wanted another of Gello's mods to undergo translation in French, something that Gello himself felt he wasn't going to get any benefit from. After stating that they'd be better served if they translated it themselves, the events turned ugly:

"When I stood by my position (probably not in the nicest terms), they continued in earnest. I got an email with an attachment I thought was safe and apparently it wasn't." The modern computer nightmare had come true for Gello. "I basically abandoned the email address, formatted my pc, ditched the mod and didn't look back."

Before you think about telling someone they suck at what they do, or simply have a ton of negativity you want to let out without any reason for doing so, think twice before doing it. There are people behind those mods you love or hate, and they deserve your respect too.

In World of Warcraft, an adventurer can live and die based on his equipment. Whether you're a noob wearing the weakest equips you can get your hands on or you're a level 60 uber-ganker sporting an arsenal of epics, there are a lot of times when total victory or insane pawnage can depend on what you're currently wearing, so quick equipment swapping is key. However, this can typically take quite a few mouseclicks and keystrokes, and time is always precious especially when you're in a desperate situation.

If you've ever died because you just couldn't swap in time, then worry no more because Gello's ItemRack-BC mod is here to save your equipment-swapping backside. This mod lets you add equipment slots to a bar, and on mouseover the bar will create a menu of items in your bag that can go in that particular slot. Just click on the item that you want to swap in and presto! Less time needed for you to swap your equipment. It even allows you to create set slots that will swap in whole equipment sets for even faster swapping action.

Click on the download link below to get your hands on this useful add-on. Be aware, though, that ItemRack-BC only works with the Burning Crusade beta. Don't forget to go through the readme file in the archive to check out instructions on using this mod.

Download: [ItemRack-BC v1.982]

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