Barbelos

Not what I was looking for, but thanks! Didn't know you could skip missions like that.

As the title says. I'd like to know if there's a mod to skip the torture scene in one of the missions. (Please spare me the "this is an adult gaerme"-bullshit. I'm aware, and it's not relevant to the question)

I have a question for the mod picker creators. Do you still plan to have direct download links to mods? That should be an obvious no-no. Linking to the mod frontpage will give traffic to the nexus, and display relevant information to the mod user.

Earlier I would have said, "Surely the stakes on a mod review site are so low that the incidences of gaming the stats would be rare enough for a few moderators to keep up with," but now I see what a serious business mods are. It's precisely because mods are not a serious business I am against this system. See my post above about accountability.

See to me it doesn't seem like something else entirely. We agree that people have the right to review and link to mods. We agree that mod authors should expect this to happen when they make their mods public, because that is what "public" means. But for some reason when you put all of those reviews in one easily accessible searchable database, it becomes wrong? Also, based on your description, it sounds like you think that anybody who posts a mod to Nexus after Mod Picker has launched has implicitly agreed to be reviewed there, because otherwise they could just not post their mod if they don't want it to be reviewed. (Same way they can just not post their mod if they don't want it endorsed.) This also works retroactively for mods that were posted before mod picker was a thing. The mod authors did not implicitly agree to that. It's true that mod authors can choose not to post mods to the nexus if they don't want them to be featured on mod picker (where they have less control than on their own mod page on nexus). I for one thinks it would be a shame to drive mod authors away from using this site.

Metacritic's stats get abused by game companies that do not understand how the grades are collated, so they make developer bonuses dependent on their metacritic score. This de-incentivizes creativity and strong incentivizes replicating what worked before. If you will please refer to the comments by one "Barbelos" above regarding Mod author accountability, you will see that there is no corporation to give bonuses to mod authors, let alone make those bonuses dependent on Mod Picker scores. The extent to which a mod author chooses to care about their Mod Picker score is entirely up to them. You will also note that this "Barbelos" describes the existing crowd-sourced review system as "a good guide," yet asserts in the very next paragraph that such systems are not "useful at all." Ok. I see the contradiction there. My point (that I failed to properly get across) was that mod authors have themselves chosen to upload their mods to Nexus knowing about the endorsement system on this site. They have not agreed to another system on an external site. While I agree that when mods are posted on a public site, they are open to critique and linking from elsewhere. The difference between a discussion on a reddit thread and the inclusion of a mod in a massive database on the Nexus or Mod Picker is something else entirely. As for metacritic, it's not only companies misusing the site, but also users with some agenda or another, completely separate from the quality of what they're reviewing. Thanks for putting my handle in quotes, really makes you look good.

I'm a mod user, not a creator, but I understand and fully agree with some mod authors' concerns. This needs to be opt-in. There is a difference between mod makers and the manufacturers of the products on PC parts picker. The latter are making a product for sale. They are creating products as professionals doing a job, and selling them for money. This makes them an appropriate group for scutiny in a whole different way than modders, who share their work for the love of doing it. They have no such responsibilities. An opt-in might make your site less useful, but then again, not being able to search your home without a warrant makes the police's job more difficult as well. That comparison might be a bit much, but hopefully you see the point. The review and reputation system is completely superfluous. Endorsement and download stats from the Nexus is already a good guide for mod users in that respect. I am also baffled by the idea that someone could still think a crowd-sourced review system is useful at all, that sort of internet optimism should have died with Steam reviews and metacritic. It is ripe for abuse. Also, see above about mod makers' accountability, or lack thereof. Already modders are hiding their mods on the Nexus, and while it negatively affects me, I sympathise with, and understand, their reasons for doing so.

Whatever else one might think about Valve's paid mod experiment, giving part of their profits back to sites that support the modding community is a decent thing in all of this.