Junk Rating?

[jessejames]

Can anyone tell me what the junk rating is?

[Only A Hobo]

As far as I know the strength of the junk filter can be adjusted in options, and that is all the rating is. Forgive my slight vagueness but I am tied to an old version of Limewire that doesn't have the junk filter.

[StevenJCarline]

Junk Filters will filter out files marked as junk wrather decided by you or others i do not know i usually dont see junk unless i mark something junk but that might just be because ppl are lazy and dont wanna mark it for others lol

[Only A Hobo]

If you mark something as junk, it is for your computer only. Others will not see your markings.

[Helanren]

Originally Posted by Only A Hobo

If you mark something as junk, it is for your computer only. Others will not see your markings.

I was wondering about the junk rating as well. You mention that something marked as junk is only for your own computer, but I see files marked as junk turn up when I do a search, before I even have a chance to "mark them for my own PC".

The reason I ask is because I have seen this recently when I searched for a well known Dutch artist. Almost half of the files that showed up were marked as junk. However, they seem OK to me : correct titlenames and realistic sizes (e.g an mp3 of 3.4 MB @ 160 Kbps bitrate for a typical song, also found as 2.7 MB @ 128 in the non-junk section). I wondered if these file are really junk, or just marked as such by someone who doesn't speak Ductch and sees some strange words?

I could of course try to find out by downloading them, but I'll only do that if I know that those junk designations do not necessarily mean such a file really is junk

[Only A Hobo]

as far as I know your copy of Limewire has the junk filter enabled and is marking files as junk from what it has already "learned". The filter can be adjusted in options>filters junk, but as I said above, I do not have the filter myself so I am guessing a little.