Acceptable plugin guidelines

[rushiiMachine]

Brought up into discussion from #1.

There needs to be some sort of plugin guidelines/rules regulating the kinds of plugins that would be allowed to be officially distributed. Currently this is subjectively done on a case-by-case basis by me, but if other maintainers were to also start approving new plugins then we need a global set of guidelines for acceptable plugins.

Outside of the obvious rules such as:

• No API spam (ex: Animated statuses, mass ping, mass dm, etc.)
• No malware

there are other types that are more subjective, like:

• Timed messages (this is automated behavior, but should it be considered selfbotting?)
• Single-command plugins that connect external APIs (ex: PetPet, Minky)
• Single-command plugins that automate some sort of behavior (my /nick plugin)
• Meme plugins

If we were to allow meme/external API plugins, then we would also need some sort of plugin tags to categorize them in PluginWeb/PluginRepo, and be able to filter these out.

[Ushie]

Timed messages (this is automated behavior, but should it be considered selfbotting?)

I believe anything that doesn't require manual input from the user should be considered a selfbot, or likewise any input that results in many multiple actions like 1 slash command that sends a message to all the servers you're in should also be treated the same, as technically no action was given in the other servers, but a slash command that sends a message in your place is fine

Single-command plugins that connect external APIs (ex: PetPet, Minky)

With the addition of tags to the plugins, I believe a Fun or Misc tag should be sufficient enough to allow the existence of these, combined with the ability to filter results it should work out fine, but when do you consider plugins to be the same? that would be the problem

So say you have /minky and /linky, they both send just random images of said characters but it's not the same character, yet in typical plugin fashion they each would be a separate plugin

So I think the guidelines should enforce plugins to be more broad, so instead of a /minky plugin we could have an "ImageBoard" plugin of some sort which people can PR additions to, and can be configured by the users (if they want to) for the specific ones they want, this is similar to let's say the TextReplace (unsure of the name) plugin in Vencord which is currently being used as the pseudo "remove tracking from links" plugin

Single-command plugins that automate some sort of behavior (my /nick plugin)

I think these are fine as they fall under utility, part of the job of client mods is simplifying repetitive tasks to those who need it