ScytheBearer

Sorry, but I am gonna shout some reality into your echo chamber. I know in this new Orwellian World we live in "reality is negativity", but ... c'est la vie. First, these new restrictions neither changes, interrupts nor disrupts the malware uploaders' process, so it won't slow them down, let alone stop them. Your "solution" is unrelated to the problem it purports to address. If you want to make a barrier, create a deeper vetting process for mod uploaders, a process more restrictive than the perfunctory one time email address verification used to vet average users. One solution might be to require mod uploaders to create and maintain a 2FA account using a legitimate authentication application and requiring re-authentication at each upload request which would elongate and change their process. Second, these new restrictions could actually penalize legitimate "new mod makers" by opening them up to spammers. New Mod Makers can no longer block the avenues by which detractors harass and harangue mod makers. Third, these new restrictions assume the majority of mod users actually read past the mod title and/or viewing the pretty picture before clicking the download button. Hell, most casual users don't even bother to read the whole description so how many can one realistically expect will actually make it to the comments or bugs tabs before downloading? Finally, I take exception with the statement "We know what we're doing". History (20x20 hindsight) seems to invalidate that statement. But, that is a discussion unrelated to the topic at hand and best left for another time. I have said my piece. Via con dios.

Hearing is biomechanical, listening necessitates thought.

There is no such thing as "too much information". When it comes time to make decisions or choices, the issue isn't "too much information", but rather "not enough good information". And therein lies the first chafe point in our decision making processes; there is such a thing as "too much bad information". Sadly, it's up to the listener/reader/viewer to winnow information and separate the seed from the chaff. But here again lies another point for disconnect. A miner may gasp and grasp at the shiny bits of obsidian in their pan, while ignoring the nuggets of gold. The perceptions of the reader/listener/viewer can cause good information to get lost while the pretty bits which appeal to some other sense get plucked from the milieu and elevated in importance. Our own filters can limit our access to "good information". And our filters further complicate things when we decide that some information portal doesn't tell us what we want to hear, so we will shut them out. Whether it is that uncle at the holiday feast or a newspaper or broadcast, shutting out information portals because they share "too much information which fails our fitters" is the equivalent of saying "I want to be ignorant". It is self imposed censorship. Remember, there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" information. There is only information. The viewer/reader/listener decides whether information is "good" or "bad". So, check your filters and see what you are choosing to believe. The censorship you rail against may be internal and and of your own creation as opposed to some grand global conspiracy to obfuscate the truth.

When seeking understanding, first know thyself.

To any and all who have celebrations on and around the Winter Solstice, Happy Holidays. Here is a bit of tranquility to enjoy and share from my 'verse to yours.

Ever notice how the most innocuous post gets downvoted and wonder "Now why did THAT get down votes?" It's the Internet Hate Mob. Here is how they work. Post or comment something someone doesn't like, or say something nice about someone which the Internet Hate Mob loves to hate, or just disagree with someone. The folks (read members of the Internet Hate Mob) who feel inclined will launch your profile and "follow you" so they get notified whenever you post again. After receiving the notification, they go to the post/comment and down vote it. No reason, no reading, just you posted something and they down vote it out of spite or hatred. And they never stop. Further, once they are following you, disabling followers doesn't help. You're already on their list. And it gets worse. I found this practice documented on r/SkyrimMods almost a decade ago. It was shared to help people harass a particular mod author which the Internet Hate Mob (even the Internet Hate Mob members here on NexusMods) love to hate. So the practice seems to be encouraged by the moderators of some subreddits. Ain't that just the nicest thing? The ONLY viable solution is to just walk away. Don't delete the account, just give reddit the big wiggly waggly middle finger and turn our back to them. And people wonder why mod makers don't like "non curated" mod rating systems. The same system used by the Internet Hate Mob on Reddit for bulk down votes would work on NexusMods. And "the reddit" system is exactly what the vociferous Internet Hate Mob wants on NexusMods as a way to harass mod makers they don't like. EDIT: the Internet Hate Mob does this same thing to YouTube channels, and any "social media" platform with anonymous voting. Facebook, Twitter, etc are not immune from the Internet Hate Mob.

I like rain ... ... the scent it imparts as it moistens the earth and quenches the grounds thirst. ... the sound it makes on a metal roof. ... the rainbows it brings as the sun passes through the drops. ... the cool feeling it produces as it runs down my neck and back. ... the taste of the rain as it falls onto my protruding tongue. I like the rain. A joy to the senses.

I like the predawn silence before the birds awaken to greet the rising sun; that ten to fifteen minutes of absolute stillness of anticipation before the first tentative chirps and warbles which leads to a cacophony of birdsong. I like the first thirty minutes after sunrise, when every bird in the neighborhood is loudly chirping, warbling, whistling, tweeting and singing; boisterously proclaiming their joie de vivre. I like every new day.

From my granddaughter ... Money found in coat pockets, priceless.

"Politics can't raise the Colorado River." - from a debate on allocating the dwindling water resources of the Colorado River and Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams. From that same debate: "Ridiculing scientists won't stop climate change." "Climate change affects the entire watershed." "Looking away doesn't make ugliness disappear." "Denying science doesn't change our reality." "It's simple, no precipitation, no river." "Too much demand, not enough water." "Water crops and people get thirsty." "More drinking water means crops die." "Choose both and nobody is satisfied." "It's about water, not election winners." - I substituted election winners for an individual's name. "More money won't make it rain." "Definitive, decisive and immediate action required." "Procrastination just makes the problem worse."

Supposedly, humans can think; but don't.

Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.

Life's simple, take the scenic route.

Walk slowly. Sniff flowers. Life's short.

When planning a parade, put the equestrian units at the end, and the elephants last.