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Tik · May 10, 2003, 08:41 PM

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Originally posted by Radium
Calculating it into both averages just wouldn't work. If Gary wants all his friends to have higher ratings, he just has to divide his pack with them. If Gary wants to annoy his enemies, he just has to upload a crappy pack and split the rating with them.

This situation has already been addressed indirectly. There would be a verification process that would work like this:

1. The main uploader uploads the file with all of the information addressing the percentages and giving each person's J2O username accordingly.

2. A PM or some other message is sent to each member addressed in the upload, and inside the message is included everything that the first person said in the first, including percentages, level information, etc.

3. Each person must either accept/decline the message.

If any one person declines, another message is sent to the main author with information of why it was declined, and then main author could either change the information and redo the verification process or delete the upload altogether (in essence, you go back to #1).

If all people accept, then you go on to #4:

4. Either a PM is sent to a moderator/admin of the main authors choice for them to authorize the upload, or a list is generated for every moderator/admin to see where anyone of them can decline/authorize the upload.

If authorized, the upload appears on the Downloads list and everyone is happy.

If declined, a message is sent back to the main author and every additional person from the moderator, and you go back to #1.

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You could devide the rating (e.g. it's rated 8, Gary and Sam both get a 4), but that could potentially drop their overall average.

I already came up with a (seemingly) good working method for weighing the rating based upon percentages given by the uploader above.