Giving Credit Through Usage Collection

i often look at someone's filter in the editor and may make a slight change. normally, this is nothing i would re-post or re-submit, just something minor. and whenever i do so, i re-save it with a 'rev 1' tagged onto the name so i'll remember a year from now that this wasnt originally my filter. but, in re-saving the filter, it automatically sticks my name on as the author. and since i put the slight revision in there because that's the way i'd like to use the filter, i'm dont know if the original author is now getting credit through the usage collection stats for me using their filter

so, what i'd like to know is, if through my changing the author name (not on purpose) is the original author still getting credit for his/her filter and, if not, can i manually change the author name back to what it was originally and thus have the original author now get the credit in usage that he/she deserves?

Once you re-save a filter, it automatically lands in your personal 'My Filters' folder. Since obviously none of the filters in there have any counterparts in the filter library database, I don't think there are any usage stats being collected for them at all. The way I understand the usage collection system, you'll have to use the 'official' library version of the filter you'd like to see usage accumulated for.

Exactly my point, and I agree, it IS unfair to the author.

This is precisely the weakness of the system. But closing this 'leak' would also mean giving up the open source nature of FF, wouldn't it?

dilla, i really dont know. if it meant losing the open source feel, then i'm not for it, but if something like steve suggests or something else, i was just looking for a way to give authors a better chance at making their HU's.

i dont know. it's to FF's benefit too. great pr when someone gets an HU, especially when they can cash in three for the freebie.