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AddZero wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

AddZero wrote:

Great! But I'm also saying we could do better than "top downloaded."  Lets aim high!   

What could be better? What about a poll of specialy selected projects?

Right! Projects voted by the community.  That's closer to what I'm suggesting. (in the last half of my above comment.) We already have "Love its" but we could do better than that too.  Make tags into votes.  So the community can easily vote how much a project is a 'game', or 'awesome'... but I don't want to highjack this thread.  Let's discuss it here. Or suggest a new idea you think would help us better.

I like that idea.... It's kind of like the whole community is a curator. But there would have to be different competitors for it to be voting...?

Don't you have to download a project to remix it?

coolstuff wrote:

RocksAndFire wrote:

Don't you have to download a project to remix it?

Yeah, but not everybody who downloads a project remixes it.

It generally showed projects which only worked offline, which the Scratch Team discourages - they won't feature a project which only works offline.

Really? Thats kinda annoying, sometimes the project is better offline because it works properly.

wei2912 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

technoguyx wrote:

To do that, you'd need 1000 accounts since you can't get the counter up by downloading it in your own account.

An easy solution to that would be to detect who downloaded the project instead of simply counting how many times a project was downloaded (and IP addresses can be checked in cases where the multiple accounts issue is suspect).

While I don't like the prospect of Top Downloaded being abused, it certainly would be nice to have some access to it, even if it may not be on the front page. Top Downloaded had some interesting projects to look at, it would be nice to have some sort of way to get back to seeing what projects other Scratchers were downloading. 

I thought IP addresses change every time you use switch on the internet?

Only certin ones do. If you have a dynamic IP they do, mine keeps swapping from 192.168.1.4 to 192.168.1.3 for some reason.

JTxt wrote:

markyparky56, 192.168... is your local ip address, assigned by your router.  Here's the address the internet and scratch knows you by.  There can be many scratchers sharing an ip address, (at a school or library) and it may change regularly.

If you want to track who downloaded, only allow logged in users to download.  then yeah, perhaps use ip address to expose people with multiple accounts messing up the count. (but that's not fool proof.)

But again, I think there's better ways than "top downloaded" to give more exposure to projects the community likes.  Like FaveTags.      Lets make tags stronger so that people that like "games" or "trigonometry" and "dress up dolls" can get together with like-minded scratchers.  I think having a bunch or mini front pages, focusing on many interests is better than trying to make the front page one-size-fits-all.

So thats why no one has been able to mesh with me... scratch tells me mine is 192.168.1.4 ok, that makes sense.    thanks for telling me.