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Thank you for the feedback. I think I will remove the voting system for now while I figure out of solution. I will probably not be adding the user reputation system, unless I figure out a way to do it without facing the problems you have mentioned. As for collaboration, I will add a feature allowing app maintainers to set whether or not non-maintainers can add scripts without maintainer permission. Thank you again for the feedback, it was very useful!
Have you considered some form of CI? I.e: Spin up a VM, run the script, reboot, report what changed? Might be a little expensive, but could help auditing?
I have, but I think it would be a bit too expensive on my VPS, but might use it if my site ever catches on. I have also considered using something like Try, but it isn't a full sandbox.
Very understandable. And from a security standpoint not necessarily indicitive of anything. A good malicious script would just check its environment first.
Would it know if it was a VM? I think KVMs can host only the kernel if I'm not mistaken
I think you can detect when your in a VM, not sure exactly how though. But they could even be checking for other environment factors, like network addresses, system language, or timezone details.
Maybe add a comment/review system (if you haven't already) in the meantime? Far from foolproof but better than nothing nonetheless.
It does have a discussion system at the moment where you can comment on a script, but there is no system to rate the script and have the total of all the ratings combined.