Got scammed by hiring a programmer

hiring developers is kinda a gamble

if you build connections and have friends that dev, its much easier to hire them instead

if you do decide to hire in hidden devs or rodevs then you need to be very careful and cautious

  • have they worked for someone else before?
  • can anyone vouch for them?
  • do they have a watermarked portfolio?
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I can’t tell if the person who wrote it was under the influence and was blinking in and out of sobriety or what, but some of it is good and some of it is just esoteric at best.
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This scares me knowing I want to learn lua because he said he had 5 years of experience . I do not want to practice coding for 5 years if people are gonna flame me like that

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I think he was lying about that or was telling the truth and decided not to try at all.

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he was definitely lying, this code is pretty ass

dont let this discourage you though, if you want to learn to code better just surround yourself with developers and pick up good coding practices

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Maybe try this

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The code could be worse. Tho, haven’t seen it all so idk how the rest looks.

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pretty sure your account gets one rollback. you can contact support about it, and they should be able to refund you.

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5 years? nah if you try hard u can be more advanced in 4 years (me), if u remove breaks and for some reason practice 24/7, half or 1 year i guess

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This looks like my code when I first started coding lol

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i actually check if it is a player to get correct type checking. But now I learnt
Players:GetPlayers(): {Player}


Old way of me doing

for _, Player in Players:GetChildren() do
	if Player:IsA('Player') then
		-- Code goes here
	else
		warn('Why is smth random parented to Players 💀')
	end
end

i don’t do the else thing

New way (+2 Lines)

for _, Player in Players:GetPlayers() do
	-- Code here
end
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I’m guessing he ethier lied, or just started 5 years ago learned for 6 months and stopped :sob:

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That is nowhere near 6 months of experience

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Yeah I honestly don’t know I started coding 5 years ago on/off so in 6 months that was me lol

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I like how this went from giving sympathy and help to a victim of scamming to bullying the scammer in every way imaginable.

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My main issue is why is he using usernames :sob: , its a matter of choice but honestly UserIds, are the way to go. From my experience people change their usernames and at the most inconvient of times

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Same, because how do you have 5 years of experience and still use
if whatever == true then instead of if whatever then

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Furthermore, why is he checking if the player is a descendant of players lol.

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Yeah, why would that be an issue? because if it wasnt the player should be kicked lol.

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I think he just grab the stuff from the ProfileService example which does that…

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