Hi all,I'm a relatively new (well, returning) simmer, and one of the things I have been looking for, without much success, and am now considering developing, is a simple rating/ranking website for the numerous scenery/aircraft/other add ons for FS.I wanted to get hold of some decent regional aircraft for FS9 and after a fair amount of trawling of the sites have narrowed it down to a few specific aircraft I'm going to try, but I wonder if a website dedicated simply to allowing simmers to rate or rank these things might be of use?Aircraft could be given ratings on the overall design, panel, fde, accuracy (all subjective, I know, but it would give people looking for new aircraft some kind of guidance). Payware and freeware could be compared side by side, people could sort according to what is most important to them.I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. If you think it's a good idea, perhaps some expansion on HOW you think aircraft/scenery/utilities could be rated.Thanks in advance,Minty

I think such systems in the end usually discourage "up and coming" add-on developers--for example, dissing some freeware with a one star rating is the same as making negative public forum comments on it. Even if you have an "opt out" feature, there's almost no way to confirm whether the uploader is really the true author of a file. A common theme with many of the sites which poach freeware files is employment of a rating system. Some of my files appeared on one such site and although they were favorably rated, they weren't placed there by me and wouldn't have been.-John