Why are mod authors allowed to ban people from seeing their mod?

[FrankFamily]

This arguments get dumber everyday... Guess what makes users keep coming to the site... tada!... mods... Of course the site needs modders that upload mods, people that come to the site to download those mods and so generate ad revenue to keep the site working. And if there were no users, most mod authors wouldn't spend time uploading mods to the site. Only dumb people keep arguing whether the chicken or egg came first. None of those arguments lead anybody anywhere because they are obvious.

 

The fact that the site, community or whatever needs, obviously, both mod authors and mod users doesn't mean the individuals in each colective has equal value. Simply consider the community without a top modder and a community without RandomUser347 who just downloads mods and doesn't even comment/endorse/help/etc. The first has lost something that had value, the second is exactly the same because that dude didn't colaborate at all.

 

And the whole thing is even more absurd because mod authors also download mods so they are also mod users, mod authors generate ad revenue by themselves, just like mod users. In other words, there are mod users and mod user+author, so the dichotomy is silly. But lets keep it for the sake of the argument... what's the difference? mod users are much more that mod authors, therefore they, colectively, generate the bigger portion of the ad revenue. Exactly. But we are comparing INDIVIDUALS here, so the mass argument is irrelevant.

 

And this thing is about the value of a person towards certain community, nothing to with the value of the person itself. It's obvious some people have more value in a community or site, for example, the site owner has the most, and there's nothing wrong about it.

[SirSalami]

We are very aware that this feature can be somewhat divisive. However, we feel that it's important give our authors the ability to choose how their content is distributed. Our intent is not not to simply be a file repository, but to provide a platform for sharing and collaboration and keep authors involved in the process. To associate blocking as a form of abuse is honestly quite an entitled perspective and should be avoided.

 

Feel free to direct any questions or concerns to me, thanks. Thread locked.