pocharat/FML — pull request #1 by jakimfett (2014-10-01 05:34:18+00:00)
Title: Blacklist patch

Dear @pocharat,
I'd like to submit a pull request to your "patch-1" branch of Forge Mod Loader.

This patch fixes alphabetization of the blacklist additions, and also adds my three mods ([Minechem](https://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem), [AlchemyPlusPlus](https://github.com/jakimfett/AlchemyPlusPlus), and [Particle Physics](https://github.com/jakimfett/ParticlePhysics)) to the blacklist.

I have personal and professional reasons to dislike some of the mod authors listed in your original "blacklist". I also rather like a couple of the mods. As a server admin, as a player of Minecraft, and as a programmer, I have deep moral and ethical concerns about how several these "blacklisted" mods/modders have conducted themselves in the community. However, my personal preferences are set aside when something as harmful and poorly considered as this "blacklist" proposal is brought to the table.

I do not support their addition to the blacklist, and I do not support the existence of a blacklist in any form. This violates the foundational principles of Open Source and the Minecraft modding community. Two wrongs do **not** make a right.

Even if I didn't have serious moral problems with a "mod blacklist", there are still problems with this.
Who decides what is in, and what is out? Is it the Forge developers? Anyone with more than N lines of code? Is it LexManos himself? Do we appoint some "Minecraft Mod Judge" who stands between modders and their ability to run mods on Forge?

What "crime" is enough to get a mod blacklisted? Can I blacklist someone else's mod because I dislike how they write code? How about because of something they said on twitter? Do we blacklist every mod that crashes a world? What about unintentional crashes? What about people who disagree with the contents of the blacklist, or feel like it should be the other way around (eg, a whitelist)?

Implementing a blacklist violates the base principles of what Open Source modding stands for, and if there is a blacklist, I'd rather my mods were on it from the beginning, because a system of this sort will not have my support, or my content.