Yeah, I've been on the receiving end, when a "mod" was published that was actually a hacked version of the game code to change something or other that I don't remember right now and aren't going to research. The mods were all off hunting baby seals or something, and the mod was published.
The overall reaction from the Subsim community was "YAY!!!!!" so of course I had to weigh in with the discussion of exactly what a mod is and what an illegal game hack is. I called it a game hack and said that its publication on Subsim was an affront to Ubi, illegal conversion of Ubi's property, against the End User Agreement and endangered the very existence of Subsim if published here.
I did my rope-a-dope crash dummy imitation until the mods came back. Things got pretty ugly because people just don't like the truth sometimes. Borders are good, but they are restrictive. The mods returned, selling baby seal pelts and found that a riot had happened in their absence. They were not happy with the community's reaction to the hacked .exe file posing as a mod and published in the Subsim download section. It was quickly gone and the incident forgotten.
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