modification graveyard problem! gettin real annoyed now

[Chadi]

Thanks for following up Lynne. You're the nicest person I've dealt with within the staff, appreciate your humble spirit about you.

You do make good points about saving locally, even Gmail. Unfortunately, in many cases its too late for a good portion of mods that have already been wiped out and moved to the Graveyard. So there's no going back on those.

As far as this goes:

It is impractical to not allow the developer to delete the files because very ofter there are fixes/upgrades to the original mod and it gets confusing to have a non-working version and a working version attached to the thread.

We're talking solely about graveyard. When a mod is move there, the files should be kept intact for reference purposes. It has nothing to do with overwriting the old version with a new one. Just graveyard itself, with the last uploaded version of the mod.

It's also impractical to demand that all developers supply uninstall instructions in the thread. They won't do it.

I personally do not care for that myself since you'd expect the install instructions to be included in the zip file, or inline in the thread itself so you can just reverse those. Simple.

They'll simply not release their modifications if there are too many rules

No reason to add rules in the plural sense. Just a rule: keep the mod files when moving to the graveyard, or have deletion requests soft-deleted, or just request deletion placed in queue. Latter is probably more work, but I don't understand why any mod author should let their personal emotions get in the way of others (at least based off some of the defense comments mentioned in this thread).

On a side note, some of the staff should stop lying about not being affiliated with the official company. We're customers and we're not brainless. We can connect two dots together. In the end, it is Jelsfot's responsibility to get their act together and stop slamming down customers ideas and making excuses for everything that comes their way. I won't even get started on my own experience.