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Originally Posted by Paul M

There is no requirement for any author to support released modifications. It is also an authors responsibility to fix bugs (or apply fixes supplied by members). Staff are not here to judge the quality of mods, or fix errors in them, or even check them - this would be totally impractical.

Normally we will only remove a mod by request of the author. The main excepion is when exploits are reported (and confirmed) or in very rare cases, when the mod is clearly nonsense - or may even damage a forum. Such removals are at our discretion.

How would you suggest vb.org replaces removed mods ?

In your first paragraph you say you are not here to judge mods, yet in your second paragraph you say you will remove a mod if is nonsense or may damage a forum. How do you arrive at that decision without judging them?
Indeed, how would you have been able to decide what mods have security issues?
But I get what you mean - you have limited resources.
My suggestion is that you get more resources (i.e. more mods) and try to provide a little more in the way of support.
I'll give you an example. On our classified forums, if there is a trading dispute, the moderators will mediate and attempt to bring the situation to a mutually acceptable outcome. It's a little more that just moderating.

In answer to your question, I suggested you endeavor to replace mods. You could do this by either encouraging other coders to rewrite them, or at the very least, don't prevent enthusiastic individuals from doing so on the basis of 'copyright'.

P.S. read my signature. '...with thanks to vBulletin.org'. Maybe there should be no thanks to vBulletin.org since anyone can host a forum. Only those forum owners who provide 'a little more' for its members deserve the praise. That's what I thought vB.org did for vBulletin owners. Provide a hub for people to share hacks and oversee/steer/tender to the community to ensure its members don't get dumped on.

Seems to me that no representative of vB.org has attempted to see my point of view. You're on the defensive and that's all there is to it.
Never mind.

I'll post some requests in the suggestions forum and see what happens.