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Originally Posted by r3dw3r3w0lf
[...]I'd suggest we embrace that sort of an agenda instead but give it a more open meaning with private plugin developer ratings and open rates to the public so we know how much money is spent where. This is also a very good way of watching out for scammers on the forum as well.
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Sourcemod does not exist for private coders to make money. The choice of license and how turnkey advertisement is handled pretty much establish that.
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Originally Posted by PartialCloning
Having said that I agree that the approved section should be brought back, not only is it a better indicator for server owners to know which coders know what they're doing (thus reducing the chance of them paying for poorly coded plugins), but it's also better for new coders to know what plugins to read and learn from, and it also pushes coders to improve and make more efficient plugins to get them approved.
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The change was made because of a lack of moderators to properly review each plugin. It does make sense to reverse the effort.
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Originally Posted by PartialCloning
As for plenty of people willing to moderate plugins, that's not the problem, the problem is finding people with the right amount of knowledge and experience with sourcemod to moderate plugins.
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This is exactly the issue the server ops have. As a platform AM owes this to the effort they spend creating and maintaining the platform, as well as give those server ops a chance to inform themselves about this. Right now the scenario is that 1) you get ripped off and 2) if you maybe find out, you don't know what to do and which plugins to run. Plugin signing along with the forum compiler signing the approved plugins with a special key that sourcemod can check to inform plugin owners of the situation in general and the plugins in question attempts to do exactly that. Give owners the ability to inform themselves properly, and introducing a way to rate and compare plugins effectively.
@Voided:
Posts like this make me honestly wonder why you have any moderation rights here.
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