Attention Community - Dead Scripts on the SDN, They must be Stopped!

[Elixar]

Seriously, I'm not talking about ones that get out-dated by the OSBOT Updates.

I'm talking about ones with 2-6 months worth of responses saying " Broken can you upload the source so we can fix? " or just straight up " Doesn't work "
Some of the scripts straight up say " I'm no longer going to update or support this script " oh okay? then delete it freak its scuffed.

If this forum has Moderators then it should be someones duty to be removing discontinued scripts from the SDN Because your wasting everybody's time.

Solutions

• Have a button-type system in place where the public can press " Broken " and allow us to fill out the form with the option to PASTE what the TOGGLE LOGGER Console says ( error Debug )
  This will then contact the developer via email and if it is not addressed within 1 week automatically assume the developer has quit and then delete it from the SDN
• Make moderators Monitor some kind of live feed that can see if the script is running or if it has not been activated within " last 31 days " then you could test the script to see if its broken and  if so take it down manually. This would require some potentially tricky Web Development. Testing each script personally is to tedious of a task and not a reasonable option.

 

-RANT

Edited September 21, 2018 by Elixar

[boldcorn74]

I agree that most of the broken scripts should be taken off the SDN, but leave it up to contacting the script writer directly to report bugs.

[TechSurgeon]

This really shouldn't be hard to implement.  From a web developers standpoint.

 

Good suggestion.  I just joined so I don't know which scripts aren't working but some quality control would definitely be a good addition.

[Chris]

Alek already does this when scripts do not compile on the SDN but he gets very busy. You can PM @Maldesto and he can handle it by SDN removal.

[Mio]

Moderators on the forums are here to moderate the forums/community, we do not handle anything to do with adding and removing scripts. That is solely on the Developers, Scripters and Maldesto in some situations. If you have an issue with a broken script, you may make a bug report on their respective thread or notify the developers through the proper forum sub-section of the non working script (with actual logger information, will need proof, no "helo script no work pls fix"). Implementing a system like that would be nice, but with the amount of time it wouldn't be needed (scripts don't really break or go inactive as often as you'd think), or would become filled with user-error reports (people not properly using the scripts, etc) would make it far too saturated to manage. And also adding a "last time script updated" tag would deter users from scripts that may potentially have not been updated recently, but still work perfectly with no problems due to being written well and not needing updating most of the time. Yeah, a script may have been updated yesterday, but it also may have way more problems than one that hasn't been touched for a little, and we know all users won't check their script threads to see if it has problems or not before buying.

 

tl;dr, mods dont touch scripts, adding a bug report button would just be spammed with user-error reports that make it not viable, and adding a last updated tag would create favoritism and unrealistic expectations.

[THS]

Viva la SDN!

[Tony]

26 minutes ago, Mio said:

Moderators on the forums are here to moderate the forums/community, we do not handle anything to do with adding and removing scripts. That is solely on the Developers, Scripters and Maldesto in some situations. If you have an issue with a broken script, you may make a bug report on their respective thread or notify the developers through the proper forum sub-section of the non working script (with actual logger information, will need proof, no "helo script no work pls fix"). Implementing a system like that would be nice, but with the amount of time it wouldn't be needed (scripts don't really break or go inactive as often as you'd think), or would become filled with user-error reports (people not properly using the scripts, etc) would make it far too saturated to manage. And also adding a "last time script updated" tag would deter users from scripts that may potentially have not been updated recently, but still work perfectly with no problems due to being written well and not needing updating most of the time. Yeah, a script may have been updated yesterday, but it also may have way more problems than one that hasn't been touched for a little, and we know all users won't check their script threads to see if it has problems or not before buying.

 

tl;dr, mods dont touch scripts, adding a bug report button would just be spammed with user-error reports that make it not viable, and adding a last updated tag would create favoritism and unrealistic expectations.

I was told if I ree long enough in chatbox a mod would log in to the servers and fix the bot for me

[Maldesto]

35 minutes ago, Chris said:

Alek already does this when scripts do not compile on the SDN but he gets very busy. You can PM @Maldesto and he can handle it by SDN removal.