After an onslaught of community outrage, Valve has decided to remove paid mod support from Skyrim. Thanks to the valuable, levelheaded feedback from the community (how does sarcasm work on the internet again?), Valve concluded it was a bad idea to roll out this program with Skyrim. "We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating".
Keep in mind that Valve did not say they think the program itself is bad, only that introducing the program within a four year old modding community was a bad idea. I'd bet that a similar program will roll out with another game at launch in the near future.
In the meantime, we can mourn for the poor Valve employees: "Now that you've backed a dump truck of feedback onto our inboxes, we'll be chewing through that, but if you have any further thoughts let us know". I'm sure the mail they received is the epitome of constructive feedback. Source: Steam Community
