I think having a star system similar to GitHub's would be helpful for promoting dandisets.

You are all familiar with this feature, but let me just lay out all of the aspects of its implementation:

1. Dandiset landing pages have a star icon. If a user is signed in they can star the dandiset. Users can also unstar the dandiset.
2. Next to the star is a number that indicates the number of times any user has starred it.
3. Users have a tab for "Starred dandisets" which displays all of the dandisets they have starred.
4. On the list page, the number of stars is visible for each dandiset.
5. Users can sort dandisets by most starred.

This would have several benefits:

• This creates a prestige that users can aspire to. I know programmers pay attention when someone's repo has a lot of stars, and I think this will have a similar effect.
• This is a much better measure of influence than number of downloads, which may be inflated for any number of reasons.
• This would help a new user quickly identify democratically selected well-established dandisets.

TODO:

• write a design doc