i actually agree, alot easier to track, especially as we're talking about where hacks conflict with eachother and if someone offers a fix then it's more likely another coder will see and might even be able to offer a more secure, less system intensize solution.

Well I suggested a sort of FAQ documentation system for a mod a long time ago :) Where mod authors and users can add comments to the FAQ for the mod. Obviously the original modder's FAQ's get added straight away - but the user's are approved by the modder.

We had a similiar system (which failed to work) before if you remember: We used to have a "support forum" where people can post threads about hack problems (quite similiar to your conflicts). But nobody except the posters cared about that forum. Hack authors did not visit there and they only cared about the problems posted in their hack's threads. Other people ignored that forum too so threads there couldnt get any replies (except "go ask in the hack thread" replies) and they didn't even read (most threads had 3-4 views). So we removed the forum so that all information related to a hack can be compiled in a single thread.

what would it hurt to set it up and if it didn't work just delete it and all threads there in?