Originally Posted by Lynne (Post 1754402)

You *are* being kinda selfish. You come to this site, download the modifications, and expect other people to do stuff that *you* should have done in the first place - kept track of your modifications and made sure you have good notes regarding each and every one of them. That is *your* responsibility - not ours, not the developers, but *yours*. Take responsibility, Gotti, stop trying to push it off on someone else.

Originally Posted by GoTTi (Post 1754380)

well gee, instead of myself sharing the information of uninstall procedure, maybe i should be knida selfish like the person either requesting the mod to goto the graveyard or movign it to the graveyard if there is a exploit or whatever found, not care, and just keep the information to myself? but that would defeat the purpose of my argument that if data goes missing on our end, and a mod is moved to the graveyard, atleast we will know what we as owners and installers of mods need to do to uninstall the thing

Originally Posted by GoTTi (Post 1754899)

nah not getting turned around on me, no way.

the idea is to have the uninstall information placed on the mods when moved to the graveyard. either removal of the plugin or whatever. staff can do it or dont, its the suggestion i submitted to this vb.org feedback forum. take it or not. im not gunna argue and debate it anymore, aint getting anywhere obviously. its not just my lost when it happens so whatever.

just close the thread already or delete it, useless.

Originally Posted by Spank (Post 1754923)

It's only not getting anywhere because you won't accept the reasons why this isn't really feasible. So you need to accept the reasons and suggestions given to you and move on.

Originally Posted by GoTTi (Post 1754899)

nah not getting turned around on me, no way.

the idea is to have the uninstall information placed on the mods when moved to the graveyard. either removal of the plugin or whatever. staff can do it or dont, its the suggestion i submitted to this vb.org feedback forum. take it or not. im not gunna argue and debate it anymore, aint getting anywhere obviously. its not just my lost when it happens so whatever.

just close the thread already or delete it, useless.

Originally Posted by R-D (Post 1755413)

You really seem to be missing the point here. Short of having a time machine to go back in time and download the modifications before they're deleted by the thread starters, how are the staff supposed to do that?

That's obviously excluding the time constraints, which, quite frankly, shouldn't be a staff duty anyway. I'd rather they were moderating the site, not spending hours writing instructions for someone else's modification.

You should take this up with the coders who don't leave uninstallation instructions, not the staff. It's the coder's modification, the coder's decision to delete their mods (barring security issues, obviously) and the coder's failure to leave uninstall instructions.

Aside from providing this (free) resource, Jelsoft and the staff aren't responsible for other people's work and to be frank, that's the way it should be.


If you really want uninstall instructions or backed up modifications, you have both your server and your hard drive. There's no real reason why both should fail and there's also no excuse not to use every opportunity to backup everything, especially as you seem to have such a big problem with this. I have modifications spread across 2 hard drives and my server. There's no reason why you, or anyone else, can't do the same.