Gallery misconduct

Sorry, so I'm a bit out of the loop here but I happened to stumble upon a forum thread a few days ago and further investigation on the gallery eventually led me to here.  I would have said something on the forums but sadly that thread is closed before I got the chance to.

So first things first. I agree with what's been said here.  In theory anyway,

However I must say that I am a bit apprehensive about campaigning to report gallery items that have a download count perceived to be too high or if the ratio of DL's / Fav's is below some certain threshold (going by the forum thread and what's been said here).  I just feel like this is going to eventually turn in a massive witch hunt where any gallery item with a DL count > X will get mass reported.  I know this is frustrating to everyone, but I think cooler heads need to prevail here.

Sure when the player base is big enough there are bound to be exploiters.  But how can you tell which is which and where do you draw the line?  Starter homes will generally have a worse DL/Fav ratio compared to artistic / niche lots, while some of the more "general purpose" residential lots will have a ratio somewhere in between.  Creators with more followers will also have better DL/Fav ratios than unknown creators, and some people who are simply shy about commenting on others' work might also have fewer favs.  So how can we distinguish between these cases (which I honestly think is the majority) and those who are genuinely cheating?  Also, what if someone uses the gallery as cloud storage and wants to add the same house to multiple save files (I'm assuming this is in the ballpark of what the loophole refers to, yes?), are they now also "cheaters"?

Also, I know several creators on the gallery who are very talented and consistently make great content.  So naturally their buildings will rank relatively highly in the popular now tab.  So are they now cheaters because they have a lot of downloads?  Sometimes the beautifully decorated mansion is popular because it is a genuinely high quality piece of work.

I'm glad this has been brought to Maxis's attention and I'd love to see a solution, but not one that involves vigilantism for reporting any creation perceived as possibly cheated.  Maybe now I'm suspicious to a lot of people here for saying this, but just wanted to give my 2 cents regardless. I'm not trying to defend the "criminals" here or condone anything, just genuinely curious and admittedly I have a bad habit of playing devil's advocate.

Unless if there's part of the story that I'm missing, and if so, I'd certainly like to know about it.  Thanks!

--TDS