Downloading your own stuff does increase your download count if you upload from one household computer and download to another household computer using the same account. I found that out last year when I was putting all of my builds up on the gallery from my PC (a few at a time) and then downloaded them for preservation to my husbands computer (all in one day). The next time I got into the game from my computer I noticed a bigger than usual increase in download totals. Sure, I get down loads, but never that many at a time. I wish they would count downloads by account and not by the computer things were downloaded to. Happily, I have seen a decrease in people (at least ones I follow) not constantly re-uploading older creations to get more downloads and more notice. It was really annoying to be spammed with notifications for things I had already seen.
