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Fair, but even these aren't really substantive either. > That's right: if I'm inactive for just one short little month, someone else can just go ahead and rele

Fair, but even these aren't really substantive either. > That's right: if I'm inactive for just one short little month, someone else can just go ahead and release software under my name, my name as a person, with no process in place for me to reclaim it later Later they link an Ethics Guidelines document which indicates that stealing names won't go unpunished, not sure why the author doesn't think that'd extend to the collection of modules they made. > public challenges to moderator decisions may result in a ban/suspension That's pretty common on forums. I think it's still fair to critique, but like the first point it's based in a lack of faith in the maintainer which can't really be addressed by anybody. > ...Any mention of it within the VCV community is immediately deleted, and its author is banned What conclusion am I supposed to draw from this fact outside of the fact that some weird disagreement happened at some point between two people? Am I supposed to conclude the maintainer is the bad guy here? No smoking gun, no clear victims, no crime in my eyes.

bastawhiz 5y ago
> stealing names won't go unpunished, not sure why the author doesn't think that'd extend to the collection of modules they made. Why is it even possible in the first place? Why even have this absurd thirty day system?
- malwrar 5y ago
  Good question, I think it's dumb too. I guess people might create a package, abandon it, then fall off the face of the earth? The modular synth community is still pretty indie, and there's a lot of homegrown modules out there. I figure this is probably intended to free up cool-sounding names that are abandoned. The maintainer just never considered that people might take month-long breaks, or might have thought the ethics policy would be enough to deal with the probably practically rare threat of bad-faith actors.
  - bastawhiz 5y ago
    It's like if github said that someone could just take over your account and all its repos if you took a sabbatical. That's an absolutely wild policy

bastawhiz 5y ago

> stealing names won't go unpunished, not sure why the author doesn't think that'd extend to the collection of modules they made. Why is it even possible in the first place? Why even have this absurd thirty day system?

malwrar 5y ago
Good question, I think it's dumb too. I guess people might create a package, abandon it, then fall off the face of the earth? The modular synth community is still pretty indie, and there's a lot of homegrown modules out there. I figure this is probably intended to free up cool-sounding names that are abandoned. The maintainer just never considered that people might take month-long breaks, or might have thought the ethics policy would be enough to deal with the probably practically rare threat of bad-faith actors.
- bastawhiz 5y ago
  It's like if github said that someone could just take over your account and all its repos if you took a sabbatical. That's an absolutely wild policy