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Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Wouldn't it be much better for the people involved to do this:

1) Modification is reported with an exploit and it is verified.

2) Staff member puts a "Exploit found" flag on the modification. Within a notes field, the staff member can document the exploit and add any other necessary comments. When they save it, an email is fired off to the Author(s) of the addon.

3) The flag above also puts a notice on the addon and prohibits new users from downloading it until a new version is uploaded by the author. People who have already marked it as installed can still download it but a warning is shown on the first post in nice bright, eye-catching letters. This could also send the email out to users who have installed it. The text of which could be modified to something like:




4) Staff looks at new version, if okay then flag is removed and everyone goes about their merry business.

This would prevent moving addons to the "graveyard", give authors time to fix the problem and not make the exploit available to new users. Current customers can continue to get support. Addon authors keep their work and such and less work overall for the staff here. Seems likes it would be win-win-win all-around.

It seems most of this system is in place. Just a little different way of handling it

For what it's worth, I would fully support this. Thanks Wayne.