Quoting kyogre12,
reply 1
What exactly would be your suggestions besides trial and error? That's generally the best way to judge the balance of a new feature. What alternative is there. anyway?
Perhaps a rating/voting system where you can see how many other people have used a particular version of a mod and how they rated it or something like that (0-5 stars or something)? You'd have to ensure each IP address could only vote once per version# of a mod or something like that I guess (to prevent people from spamming ratings on their own mods), but nothing too complicated?
Seems unecissary to me. All of the "good" mods will probably be very apparent, because they are run by a well-known and/or knowledgeable member of the community, they have their own website, their media (screenshots, trailers, etc) show how good it is, lots of replies on the forum topic, frequent updates, and/or other such factors. My point is that there are a lot of ways to tell that a modder or a team has put in a lot of time and effort, and generally any mod made by such people will be good. I don't think any sort of rating system will be necissary, because the good mods will be pretty self-evident.
