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"Helen Chen" <helen.chen@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gsi6pb$7uj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Dear community members, 
> 
> This morning, we have made a change to how we define the displayed download count at MATLAB Central. 
> 
> Historically, the number of downloads were captured and displayed. Several of our community members suggested that filtering would minimize the impact of repeat downloads by individuals, crawlers or bots. As of this morning, our new calculated count reflects one download per IP address per 30 days. Because of this, you will notice that current file and author numbers are lower than they used to be. We believe this new number better reflects interest in our contributed files. We hope you do too!
> 
> Thanks to each of our community members who took the time to contact us suggesting this improvement to File Exchange. We do appreciate your comments and feedback.
> 
> Best,
> Helen Chen
> for the MATLAB Central Team

Excellent. Thanks Helen! I think this will improve the FEX vastly.

As far as user ratings, maybe a limitation where ratings from the same IP as the author are excluded? Something to think about.