Jesus Christ, unless this was directly copied (it should have at least have had some word/format changes) then who cares enough to complain about it
. I don't understand why an admin would say to provide a link, when it is basically general forum usage on default VBulletin settings anyway.. How odd.
Oh, and maybe you should change the wording a bit, "This Tutorial has been copied from http://www.VBForums.com" sounds a little like it was stolen, rather then something like, "This tutorial was brought to you by http://www.VBForums.com" or "Written by http://www.VBForums.com".
Edit: How can they even say it's the same? I've just checked and it's not..
http://www.vbforums.com/faq.php?faq=...em_reputations. If we're talking the basic idea is the same, well, duh. I don't think it should be linked and if anything, it could be rewritten and I'd be quite happy to do it, or give my copy of what I wrote up for the Zodiac forums.