Originally Posted by Varius

If you are hiring freelancers/outsourcers, you should not expect/assume anything.

You should make sure it's included in your specifications that all code must be properly commented/documented.

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Im not gonna say im against commenting because its sometimes useful when something is done complicated or strange for some specific reason, but the fact is if someone cant figure out what a piece of code does from looking at it, they have no business editing it.

As long as you use self-explainatory function names and variables...