To further expand upon my suggestion above, I created an actual suggestion in the suggestions forum.
I believe that my suggestion in the above link will will help to mitigate the risk of unintended changes and provide a pathway to a positive relationship between Funcom, Users in the Forums, and also Content Creators and that these sorts of large errors and the understandably negative responses that such errors garner become a thing of the past.
Thank you for monitoring the forums and providing responses; we do appreciate the communication.