Hello,
On 02/18/2004 02:15 PM, B.A.T. Svensson wrote:
The main point of requiring a valid address has nothing to do with sending you spam, but rather to make it difficult for some authors to boost their top download ranking positions by creating many accounts and download their own packages. That is explained in the why page.
And that's of course what indvidual with low moral will do when
If you study a little about the human nature you will realize that tehre would be people capable of doing that and much worse. If you just think of people with great needs to satisfy their egos at the cost of getting exposure to their names it is not hard to understand. It is not wrong to desire to obtain recognition. What is wrong is to commit fraud to obtain undeserved recognition.
Of course, this is what happens when you have "top" sites. Any "top" site you look at has cheating in it. IMHO, you shouldn't be using the "most downloaded" thing as that's real easy to fix.
So, you have an idea, this is the hall of fame page that provides exposure to those that are top ranked:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/top/top.html
given the chanse. However my first remark (a time ago) was not ment to spawn a oral war, but suggest reason why people would like to select this or that package. Sometimes those reason are not founded in technical motivated arguments, but those of confidense and easniess. Easiness in the sence that one tend to stick to what one already know and has developed skills with.
Sure, but when somebody does not know, people tend to follow advice or hints provided by information based on the opinions of a significant number of people. That is why in the PHP Classes site there charts based on statistics collected from things like the classes that were downloaded and rated by many users.
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