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Originally Posted by Paul M
However good or desirable this may be, it's unlikely to ever happen. Modifications are threads in a forum - and the whole way that forums work is that they are only editable by the thread/post owner (or by moderators). Changing this basic fact would mean a fair amount of work messing with a number of files and permissions, which is not something to be taken lightly - the potential for breaking something, or opening permission holes, outweighs the small potential gain (very, very few mods have real co-authors).
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So the message: if some coder creates a very good hack to make this possible, vB.org might adopt this
Another thing: could it be possible for supporters/co-authors to see at least who installed the modification?