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So it's no secret that CKAN is a point of contention between some forum dwellers. It's admitibly a useful tool for players and it's not technically doing anything illegal, but a number of its policies have caused an additional burden on many mod authors who are the life blood of this community. Some of Ckan's controversial practises include... 1) Listing whatever mod any 3rd party has inputted even without the original modders knowlege or consent. 2) Automating installation with no quality assurance that has failed many times in the past resulting in an increased support load for the volunteer mod authors unfortunate enough to be a victim of such an event. 3) And finally refusing mod author's requests to be delisted from the system despite the problems it causes for them because the author chose an open licence. Even if this is legal it's unneighborly, discourages openness, and discourages mod authors in general. If CKAN doesn't change it's ways the friction between the mod authors and the mod manager would eventually escalate, and come to a head with authors adopting closed licences, or making their mods intentionally incompatible, or even simply taking their ball and going home. Since CKAN needs mod authors but mod authors don't need CKAN it's a battle CKAN inevitably can't win but if it happens we stand to lose our openess or even a number of talented mod authors by the time the dust settles. So in order to prevent this and avoid similar potential conflicts with any other mod managers in the future I propose that the forum rules be changed to ban the linking and discussion of mod managers that are not purely opt-in, and don't allow mod authors to opt back out once they are in. End result is CKAN changes or relocates taking is discussion and support needs with them, no future competition to CKAN will make the same mistakes, and finally control is put back in the hands of the mod authors encouraging continued openness in the community.