Is it not the "Most Popular" from the home site of MacGarden?

... and turn MacGarden into another "feisbuk" copy?

very bad cheap idea.

Reading other people´s comments is more fun, human and entertaining.

I agree, Euryale

We could have a LIKES count like on youtube for the different uploads on the garden.

This kind of exists here. Its up to folks to click "stars" on an item's page, to up or lower an items ranking.

Click the large "Macintosh Garden" (white lettering) at the top of any page. This takes you to to the page with the slide-show that you normally see when you log out. Scroll down this page, past the headings "About the Macintosh Garden" & "Chatbox", to "Highest Rated". It shows a list of items with the highest 5 star counts. To the right of this list you should see further links to:
# Top content (Fivestar)
# Top content (Plus1)
# Your votes
Anyway, its up to folks to click those stars, which I gather not that many bother to do, so the results on these pages are not hugely accurate.

I'd rather see a list count of the number of times an item is downloaded. But even this could only rank an items popularity from what is available directly from the MG (at this point in time).

I think it could be useful more as a function of users, i.e. click on a user, look at the games he/she likes, or click on a game, look at a list of how many people like it. As opposed to, look 100 people think this game is 5 stars! It would add a more "social networking" feel to the site, which is really wiki+forum at the moment.

Personally I agree with Euryale, it's not really necessary and it forces people to leave (sometimes) more meaningful comments. Of course, the system already tracks which games you've rated (I assume) so that you can't vote twice on the same item, so it really shouldn't be more difficult to have it list your votes on your page; like, look at Northcott, he rated Civilization II as 5 stars, FreePascal as 4.5, etc.