Truth be told, I think that there should be something that promotes the idea of rating/commenting. Something along the lines of if you have 5 or 10 downloads that you have not left feedback on, then you are locked and can't download anymore until you bring yourself out of the queue.
Maybe leave the simfile creator a downloader list (basically I'd like to know who has all seen my face on my Numb/Encore sim :P). The only problem with this is that it may lead to spamming, harassment, but that would also lead to weeding out the annoying jackasses that would do something like that.
Seriously though, there needs to be something to keep people from just making a profile and constantly leeching sims while leaving absolutely no compensation of any kind. Even bad ratings help us improve the future. I'm sure that there are probably plenty of very good simfile writers here, or at least lots of particular sims that are really good... but that just leaves us downloading FOREVER trying to find them since no one ever leaves warnings for future users.
Basically, if this needs to be posted somewhere else in order to make it have a chance of being a viable change in the future then let me know. Because leeching is lame, even TORRENTS won't let you leech peacefully, leeching (setting your upload speed low or off) KILLS your download speed. |