Hello pot, you're black.
You mean, the process where they make a mod page and turn off comments and bug reports straight away? Ok.
Actually a good idea that we have considered, but one requiring quite an extensive rewrite of both the users service and the mods service (which is already planned). We're looking for quick wins at this stage until we can spend the many months of work on more complex solutions.
New mod authors getting "spammers" and "harangued"? What are you going on about? This is a strange clutch.
After 1,000 UDL, not a large ask by any stretch as some have already mentioned, their tool suite increases.
The assumption is on your end. What was actually said was, "To further improve your safety in the community, we've changed the default permissions on mod pages to combat this." and "Now users can help warn others about the malicious nature of these files, via the comments section, while they wait for moderators to action the reports."
If it can help to warn a few more users about the malicious nature of the links in the readme.txt documents in these fake mods, which it will, then that's great.
Ah yes, another good giggle from you again, thank you. Here I am, 23 years later, having created, bootstrapped and run this community from nothing to tens of millions of users a month, growing year on year since the start, with clearly no clue of what I'm doing! Silly me
Once again, I do wonder why you are still here, using this site when you're always so desperate to come in and "shout some reality" and criticise our actions whenever possible? Is it perhaps time for you to move on, because this merry-go-round with you is getting tedious. It's been over 3 years now. You either need to get over it and stop the bitter, banal gibes or you need to leave. I'm bored of it.