Important: It is all about trust

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I'm sorry, but 'the entire modification is doing stuff the end user never knew about and auto clicking the install button' (WHEN THEY WERE FREAKING INSTALLING IT) is about as malicious as

PHP Code:

echo("hello world"); 


It always starts innocent, but then becomes malicious. I'm sure you don't someone else who is just a coder here tracking your activities. What is to stop this happening if this is nipped in the bud now?

As a lot of users assume clicking the install button actually installs the modification for you, I doubt anyone is filing with Data Protection over something so trivial. After all, don't you think the user would realize something was up when they say Installed in front of the thread title?
I installed a style once. It had a wc3 image at the bottom that clearly didn't come with the style. Freaky stuff ill tell you.

The install button wording has been addressed and new buttons are present in some styles and will arriving soon in the other styles.

If you download my work but don't install it, what the hell are you doing with it? It plays a lousy game of Parcheesi. I didn't even know you could download 400 hacks from here.

You would be surprized how many vB3.5 mods alone there are.

I think a simple word to the offender would have sufficed instead of having it seem that clicking an install button was akin to cannibalism.

Having a simple word to the current offending coders would not stop anyone else doing it. What is to stop you, or someone else from looking at a hack with a high install count, seeing how they have coded the install button click, and then adding it to your own hacks? It would become a cycle. Better to break the cycle publically now than to let the issue continue just with different coders as some are told about it privately and others pick up the practice.

Originally Posted by Princeton

This is not about "one person". This "problem" is bigger than some may think.

Seconded. The issue here is quite widespread, hence it being addressed before it goes any further.