Hundreds and hundreds of mods

[Beetrice]

...of extended sample characters. Oh, and "Abigail has 300x health and does your laundry", too

[DegenerateFurry]

Neat. What about it?

[gaymime]

or, you know a setting to hide personal mods. steam forces you to publish them to use them which sucks..... not sure why you brought this to the klei forums though. klei has no control over steam

[Echsrick]

there are 3 kinds of mods

the good and beloved ones

the ones with language you cannot understand

mod with no description what so ever

oh and i guess a repeat of an older mod that probably was good and beloved, so guess 4 kinds

[DegenerateFurry]

1 hour ago, SSneaky said:

yeah tbh there needs to be some sort of clean up, or dare i say, a restart, for the steam mod library.

its soo dam bloated by random ass anime characters for example.

that like 3 people use or whatever.

Neither of these are better options than leaving it as-is.

Option 1: A "restart". Tons of fully functional mods that still work despite being abandoned get purged for no reason and now they're basically just gone if they don't get reuploaded, which plenty wouldn't. This'd also be pretty much unprecedented in the history of Steam workshops anywhere.

Option 2: A more selective purge. This runs the risk of upsetting people (because those "random ass anime characters" are actually enjoyed by some players, and some have lots of subscribers), but more importantly, it'd be a lot of work on Klei's part. Do you know how many mods there are in the Steam workshop? 18,530.
How long would it take Klei to test each one to see if they're still working, or really make any kind of decision on whether or not to keep them? However long that takes for one mod, multiply it by 18,530. 
And, no, automation of the process through AI isn't some magic fix even though people suggest that for everything these days. AI is really, really stupid and makes mistakes constantly. 

The better option for the Steam workshop would be a more comprehensive tagging system that allows us to search for mods that affect specific items or characters ("Amulet", "Woodie", etc) without relying purely on search algorithms that seem to barely care about what you search for, but that's not something I think Klei can do since that'd be on Steam's end to implement and would fall to the modders to actually use.