@bobd

> There's one package, for example, that I was planning to use that gets a 2 
> for code quality

That's precisely my point! You are making a decision based on a cursory 
assessment by a person who has looked at hundreds of packages in a month. You 
should **not** reconsider using that package because the code quality is 
written to be 2! If you, and other people, do that, the author of that package 
may lose motivation, essentially for no reason at all. Moreover, say the author 
uses this as an opportunity to improve the code quality (which may already be 
high!): should they update packages.json to signal that they have done 
improvements? It feels awkward. I don't know any other platform that gives 
votes to packages in this way.

Example on my own packages: I know for a fact that - say - the code quality on 
Neo is much higher than that on CSVtools or memo. This is because I have 
written them. But judging from the spreadsheet you may think that it is a good 
idea to use CSVtools and a bad idea to use Neo.

My only package that gets a 4 on code quality is Alea. While that is not 
especially bad, I have no clue why that should get a 4 while others get a 2. 
>From what I can tell on my own packages, these votes are essentially arbitrary.

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