On 02/18/2004 06:40 PM, Justin Patrin 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.
Definetely you are not very skilled in addressing the needs of communities of capable individuals.
I am not going to bother to explain why, but the existence of that top is one of the reasons that motivates so many developers to contribute to the PHP Classes site. The fact that only downloads done by authenticated users count for the tops is the one of the reasons why most developers that contribute to the site do not lift the login requirement to download.
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