Is there some form of fan rating and endorsing?

[Frontsalat]

Hey guys,

 

I was wondering, with the two different types of download notifications (totals and uniques), why did you initially implement this? I remember a while back, maybe two years ago, I was active on this site and downloaded some mods, but can't remember seeing thoose two different notifications. Was there a serious reason or "incident" that made you implying this, or is it just for the statistics?

 

How do you count if the numbers are real. Do you see unique downloads by IP? And if so, if someone uses a router he basically could circumvent theese actions. How do you prevent this? I'm interested in this, because I see on most mods the numbers of unique and total downloads show great diversion. I also think some of the mods get pushed by "Fan Rating", does the system work here like supposed to? Another think is, if you caught someone extensively fan rating, do you punish him for doing so? Do new versions of mods count as unique or total download?

 

I know I redownloaded a copple of mods sometimes, either because I've lost them inside the mess of my computer or I'm simply to lazy to search for them. It's far more easy and also faster to just enter the Nexus and redownload mods, then search for them. How do other users on this site think about this?

[Eiries]

The Unique and Total Downloads feature is something that's fairly new. As far as I can guess, it was just put there for statistical measures.

 

Unique Downloads are most likely decided based on user which, if abused, would probably mean a user is using multiple accounts, which is a bannable offense. It's a feature that wouldn't be exploited because, well, it's not worth exploiting.

 

"Fan Rating" is also something that isn't often an issue either since, if it's a well-received mod, it will receive a large amount of endorsements regardless; whereas if it's a junk mod, there probably won't be enough "fans" to bump it, since users often gain popularity based on their past exploits. Like past, successful mods.

 

If someone hypothetically did have a bunch of friends who they would get to endorse their low-quality undeserving mod, I suppose you could attempt to gather appropriate evidence an report it, but I'm not sure what would be done of it, as it's a pretty profound scenario.

[buddah]

It is relative for file pages with more than one file uploaded or when there have been several updates. Unique dls are unique user downloads.