Please consider a mod page limitation on authors

[StormWolf01]

Greetings and salutations to all.

Today in the "New this week" section of the fallout 4 mods, a single author has taken up 4 pages of new mods.

With translations :mad:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/thisweek/

Yes, I know that there are tags which allow the user to not have those pop up. That is not my concern. Because many people don't use these tags to filter their results.

 

My concern is the unfairness that this author just placed on the brand new mods that were released this week, and are now buried at PAGE 7 of the new mods for this week.

All of these translations, all uploaded one right after another have swamped the pages, starting at page 2, all the way through page 6.

 

I do not see this as fair that this one author has so many pages which are almost entirely all their mods. I do not see this as fair to the other modders who have just lost that much more visibility to their efforts and their work.

 

And while I fully realize that a limitation on uploads would affect authors that are uploading fixes to a file that they may have uploaded within a couple of hours, Or would make it so that they couldn't upload multiple variations of their mod, such as a .esl version, and a .esp version.... that's not what I am asking for to be considered.

 

My idea of fairness would be that I could maybe create 2 or 3 new mod pages with uploads, per maybe... a 2 hour period. Considering the high amount of population that we have here on Nexus, that would provide plenty of time for other authors to also get much needed visibility to their mods, without one singular author hogging up that much space, all at once.

 

My thinking is that this could be achieved by placing an Anti-bot verification on the mod creation page. It could be set with a variable timer, and a number of uses (for lack of the technical term) per account within the timeframe of when that timer first started counting down.

 

Thank you very much for the time to read this. And thank you very much for potentially considering some kind of method.

-Storm

[Guest deleted34304850]

as i don't use, or need translations, i filter them out, so my page looks absolutely fine to me.

can you make a screenshot so i can see how your page looks to you?

[StormWolf01]

Aye, that I can.

Well. No. It's 5 pages. So here's 5 screenshots :wink: :tongue: LOL

 

Just links

https://imgbox.com/mf8Refpi
https://imgbox.com/J7ZMhZ6n
https://imgbox.com/B7asMuxQ
https://imgbox.com/hN4HcLse
https://imgbox.com/b9ASHcbp

 

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Bockworscht...something or another... is the one you're looking for. Trust. You'll see plenty of them.

[Guest deleted34304850]

god love him, he's been a very busy mod author.

if you filter out translations - what do you see? my own settings filter them out and a few other things i'm not interested in, and the filters work brilliantly and i get everything im interested in and nothing else.

i think it should fall on you to filter your results not put some kind of punitive measure on someone who is doing nothing more than uploading their work.

[Infamous95]

Being an english speaking site I feel like translations should just be moved to a translations category I find some people dont tag their mods properly and some put random translation mods in wrong categories. Not to mention most translation mods require the original file anyways so users can find the translation that way if needed. I think that would be a better way to deal with this.

[Pickysaurus]

Being an english speaking site I feel like translations should just be moved to a translations category I find some people dont tag their mods properly and some put random translation mods in wrong categories. Not to mention most translation mods require the original file anyways so users can find the translation that way if needed. I think that would be a better way to deal with this.

 

I don't really see this as an argument. As you're not a translator you probably ignore it, but the very first option when uploading a mod is "Is this a mod or translation" as long as they pick "Translation" it should be automatically tagged. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods//add.

 

If there's a mod author who frequently doesn't do that, it possibly a language barrier and if you report their pages a moderator can educate them on what to do. Or, if you can do so politely, you can ask them to add the tag in the comments... as a final option, mods by default accept tag votes so you can vote for it. If 2 other people also vote for it, it gets applied automatically.