Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

No rating system will be ideal. In Addon, there are many "antique" aircraft
simulations devoid of "Systems".
Ratings will always be difficult to assign, and sometimes contreversal.
I would prefer a search field by types of aircraft initiated by clicking
"Browse".
Kind Regards

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 7:35 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/28/26 4:56 AM, James Turner wrote:
> > However, the curation side is a big deal here, since otherwise someone
> can just
> > automate a POST to the backend and skew the ratings up/down arbitrarily.
> I’m not
> > sure how to handle that, we don’t have any secret API keys or similar
> backed
> > into the build and I’d sooner keep it that way, otherwise self-builds
> and binary
> > builds get different behaviour.
>
> my first thought is something like the crash reporter setup except instead
> of
> crash data being taken and uploaded, it is a user's local ratings... this
> way
> there would be no/less chance of the web submission interface being gamed
> and
> each submission would have a UUID, maybe use the crash reporter UUID?
>
> that's a gut suggestion before 1st c0ffee, though...
>
>
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