Drupal 4.5.x or older

I've been an avid surfer on the forums for a long time. I hardly engage in the discussions and tend to just act as a neutral party. But increasingly on this forum particularly, a topic surfaces accusing Company.X or Developer.Y of unethical or unprofessional conduct. This sort of thing is becoming increasingly common around here. I've read time and time about developers under-delivering or in some cases stealing from clients which is down right outrageous.

My question is:
How can we minimise fraud and damage to the Drupal brand/community?
How can we maintain a harmony between "Service Providers" and "Service Receivers"?

I have a few recommendations I would like to outline to the Drupal Association that could see the end to the negative topics in this forum particularly. It would also bring rise to informed and educated decision making in helping choose the right company/contractor/client to deal with. It involves rating Drupal users based on specific metrics to create a quality score for the community to gauge the performance of the user. It's driven by feedback, no different to how eBay is driven. Yet, it should not be a straight forward vote up/down model as this could work against the some new users as demonstrated on sites such as Digg when it comes to hitting the homepage.

Lead Web Developer / CMS and interface design / Full-time

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Well i have just launched a new website, but am not very much aware of this Drupal. I'm looking to hire someone who is expert. i will pay him through paypal. I need this to be done as soon as possible. I have tried it out after reading tutorial about it on google, but i could not do that. Kindly give me your rates for this job. For your reference i'm giving you my website link.
www.savvylance.com

Thanks.

We have an immediate need for a contract programmer to take on the maintenance and continued development of our recently launched thetalentslate.com Drupal-based community. We anticipate at least 30-40 hours of development a month, and would like an estimate for a per-month maintenance fee to help us polish & enhance our existing system.
This Drupal system uses CCK, Views, and Panels (1) extensively. It also utilizes Ubercart for its ecommerce needs, and has about 10-12 custom modules, most of which are simple “mashups” to get existing Drupal functionality to match our business needs. The non-mashup modules still use CCK & Views extensively, so this should be an easy project for any experienced Drupal developer to pick up.
Immediate development needs we have:
• General aesthetic polishing, CSS/Templates, block & element placement, etc
• Enhancements to user profiles, specifically adding a Contact tab, and some data reorganization
• Continued development of site sections like Projects and Search.
• Development of a documentation/support/FAQ solution (possibly using Book pages?)

It's been nearly six months since the release of Drupal 6, so I thought I'd take a poll to see which version of Drupal everyone is using.

I know you probably have multiple sites and may be using multiple versions, so here's a better rephrasing of the question: If you wanted to make a completely new Drupal site, which version would you use?

i have actually been doing a fair bit of work with drupal along with other cms, wanted to get a feel for them before i started on a few projects. now that i've selected drupal and started, i am finding a made the wrong decision, at least in selecting version 6.