Very good point.

Any chance this will be re-considered?

I read a few ideas and here i go.
Hard to stop that most of us playes tech and shortybecouse they are the easy tracks and suited for anyone but fullspeed isn´t suited for all of us and for those who love fullspeed will play tracks in fullspeed list ofc.
and i love short/lol and tech that is my favorite but i can handle any track and i sometimes try a fullspeeder.

and i read something here about dl list and that is a great idea, i know we have a "random track shosan"
But anyway, if you have a Download list like this..

unoticed tracks / maybe underrated hehe
1. track has 0 dl and 0 award (still here
2. track has 1 dl and 1 award (it has 100% award but it haven´t reach the quote of x dl so its still there)
3. track has 10 dl and 1 award (10 % award) still there.
4. track has 10 dl and 2 award (20% award) the track jump to next list.
5. track has 11 dl and 1 award ( <10 %) this means that this track has got the change but didnt make it to the next list, whatever that is. but i hope you get some idea from this.

dl counter must be fixed so one dl per user means only 1 dl
and anonym users dont count (must be logged in)
so maybe like this that award/replay = 1 download if its not dl by that user..
and maybe the limit can be 5 dl in this case to stay on the list. sound little so i prefere 10 dl atleast becouse if you have 11 dl and no award that means that your your track is bad 1/10 = award if your track is one of the best.
add a x (4) hour counter and when it reach 0 the track is out of the list to give it a little chance.^^

havent read all those pages

That seems pretty complicated, at least when it has to be explained. I'm not even completely sure what you're suggesting.

I think a simpler system is best, something that is intuitive for new users to figure out.

I didn't understand a thing. ^^

SPIDER says:
if you have 11 dl and no award that means that your your track is bad

Total disagree.
If a track has 50 dl and no award, then it means that the track is bad. But for just 10 dl?
And I have never seen (or had ) a track with 1 dl and 1 award. Impossibru.

okey first, i had 1 award and 1 dl resently so its not impossible ^^

That is just an example how to sort anyway but maybe nothing with award to do then.
The download counter must be fixed in some better way, and i suggested as i wrote above becouse sometimes i dl a track 5 times or more, and if its limited to 1 per user its better. and as it is now all gets 2 dl per player that use "install and play" feature
yeah simple is best but the truth is that nothing is simple i guess its just look simple to us becouse we dont see the work behind it
ex 7 + 7 is not harder than 6732.3 x 54.8 for a calculator/program
its just a function. its the idea that is hard to find
find the best calculation / soloution to make it a cool and fair system.
not that hard to change the numbers so it work as it should

but i talk about the unseen tracks with fewest download but its all the same.

I've seen tracks with 3 awards and 0 downloads.

How?

Because the author shared them on Skype or in another forum before posting them on MX.

So those three people knew they liked the track enough to award it, but didn't need to download it here.

There's no good way to count the number of downloads as an accurate representation of how good the track is. To get close, we would have to count users who are only logged in, which doesn't count users who download tracks from a server (if that's still a thing), users who are on a different computer and are not going to log in, etc. Counting downloads is more trouble than its worth imo.

No you just need a user dl quote. = 1
About online dl that is the same i guess
becouse a server need a user account to dl tracks right. ?
If not they dont count, simple as that,
and if someone award or submit replay (he or she has downloaded the track for sure)
and the server look if user have or havn´t dl the track and add 1
same as replay

Just ignore online downloads if it´s possible.
There is only a few that dl a track multipla times,
but with this "unoticed track list" its important, if not, someone can dl a track 20 times and its out of the list,.

simple just need to be logged in to count as bellow.

**Submit replay = 1 if not "user4513" 1 else 0
**Submit award = 1 if not "user4513" 1 else 0
***.* download = 1 if not "user4513" 1 else 0
*,* install & play = 1 if not "user4513" 1 else 0