[simon_o]

That seems to be an absolute win to be honest. Not sure how you think this is helping your case.

Maven Central people nuked the artifact that may have caused confusion, and if the owners try anything like that again, it's likely their domain will be banned from publishing.

[lifthrasiir]

Yes, but that's not unique to Maven because virtually all software repositories have such policies. If that's about the required amount of "moderation" you claim, I don't see how Maven can even be considered better than others.

[simon_o]

Or maybe you don't want to.

If that's the hill you want to die on, good luck.

[lifthrasiir]

Maybe you wanted to say that policies do not imply actual "moderation". But that is demonstrably false, there are documented cases where crates.io removed packages solely because they were malicious and all those cases happened as soon as possible for crates.io. So Maven Central has to do something more in order to be ever considered better than crates.io, but I have no idea---it accepts any well-formed uploads after all. Do elaborate on that.