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“To say more would spoil be it’s overall its a game that needs to be played.” - Aristotle
Although I have absolutely no idea how to do anything at all with code (aside from failing at life in general) and rarely chime in in this thread, I am an epic lurker that has been keeping track since day one. Being an organizationfgt, I'd like to put my two cents in.
I think that the answering questions thing is just as silly as review. Review is silly because it decreases the desire to make scripts, because you have to go through a review process in the first place. Many people view it as unnecessary. While it makes everything safer, it doesn't precisely do much for speed. Questions are silly because, obviously, they can't be trusted (we're assuming that a script is being made by a new user here, for easiness) anyway until a "trustworthy" source validates them. Half of that question list I didn't understand at all, and the second half could easily be lied about. Joe Blow could download this script and it could delete system 32 or something--that's safe, right?
Bottom-line is that, as Apocalype said, it is user choice to download a script. That's the bottom-line, and there's simply no getting around it; nobody forces you to download one of these scripts. A review system, in my opinion, is unnecessary because it's simply another bureaucratic device that, honestly, will only serve to make the reviewing parties get larger e-peens and slow down the script submission process.
Now, if the desire is to protect users from bad content (and that's what the desire here is), that's not a bad goal at all. In fact, it can be easily accomplished. In the OP, simply edit in a portion that says that a user script not in the original post of this thread has not been checked for content and is not supported by any member of this site. If it is in the OP, it is determined to be safe by the scripting "powers that be", as it were. Similarly mention that any post that has not been edited with an "-Approved-" tag or something of the like (past whatever page this system is implemented on, of course) does not contain a script that has been checked for content by a scripter/moderator. It would also probably be worthwhile to mention that the content within those scripts is not necessarily bad, merely not checked content. Downloading comes at your own risk if you download non-approved content, et cetera.
Anyway, all that I'm saying is that all of those questions can be lied about and Mr. scripter-man can do his damage regardless; he'd get banned with or without those questions at relatively the same time (in fact, the questions might SLOW a ban and a check of his script rather than speed it up) and the user download rate would be almost exactly the same if not higher due to this perceived sense of security. I see no issue with keeping the system precisely as it is and merely working on an edit-into-the-OP/edit-the-post-with-"approved"-tag system here, skipping the questions because they're silly.
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[Edited on 07.01.2010 8:33 AM PDT]