Originally Posted by Tingle0x539
Why don't you make a news message on the front page of this site and post on the ESO addon forum with a warning.
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There are a couple reasons for not putting up a news post, that if you think about them actually make some sense:
- If we put it up as a news post, it gets them a lot of attention, and would actually drive more traffic to their site, which is what they want, since site traffic means ad revenue.
- By putting it in this particular section of the forums, while many 'regular users' may browse through this section somewhat there will be a lot less of them (see #1), yet the authors will see it.
As for posting on the ESO forum, Wykkyd beat me to it.
Originally Posted by Tajin
Maybe it would be a good idea to automatically include a small textfile or link in every addon available here.
Php can automate that. Some download sites do this.
This way if someone steals files from here, they'd have to repack them first to remove the links.
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While that isn't a bad suggestion, there are a couple reasons why that won't work:
- We absolutely positively have not in the past, do not now, and will not in the future, ever touch an author's files. No modifications of the zip files they upload to our sites. See copyright and our feelings about protecting it. *
- As we've seen in the past, and as this person is already showing that they will do the same - if they want to do this, they're going to do it. They think nothing of going in, removing copyright statements, altering code to remove contact information, rename files, whatever.
Appreciate the suggestion though. As I said, not a bad idea on the surface, just ... yeah.
[Edit]* Aaaactually, that isn't precisely true. We have gone in and edited an author's files for very specific reasons
but only with the author's express knowledge and permission. The main reason being if an author is uploading a tool or utility (not a plain addon) that requires an executable. In those cases, we require them to provide us with source code, to make sure that it is safe before we release it for download. After we have checked it we will remove the source code if they request it, before making it available to the public. See again copyright and our feelings about protecting it.