Well looks like someone's on a rant...
I've never downloaded any TDU mods (apart from sound packs and rims) so Reaper's announcement doesn't affect me. Still, I have occasionally checked out the Mod section of the forum and can see why Reaper would choose to make such a decision.
As an artist (and I do believe modding is an art), not getting any compliments and mostly negativity all the time is a great blow to one's inspiration. Sometimes all it takes is one person's comment to break you and make you want to give up. While it is an extremely shallow way to think, to some people it just can't be avoided...
As previously stated all over this forum before, modders do want to hear more than just lurkers here only for the mods dictating what they should do/when they should do it and demanding that they should make something else even though the current project is still WIP. Sadly the culprits guilty of such behaviour would never bother taking a look at threads like this.
Goat, I know that you may be pissed that a friend (Reaper) has been put off by impatient, immature, lazy, dictatorial armchair buggers, but maybe you were a bit harsh in your retort? That was all just his opinion after all... Maybe you were already ticked off at something that happened earlier in the day, i dunno, but I actually agree with him. E.g, if it weren't for modding, Tool wouldn't be here...
And to everyone else fed up with all the people constantly demanding mods and "having no respect for modders", then I have a solution: Don't trawl through the thread. Just keep checking the main post for updates and edits. That's what I do...
Just my 2cents worth