Well… at least they used to. I’ve lost over 1000 downloads/day from one day to another with no explanation. I agree that download rate should be the best rating system, no more haters and confusing ratings. But at the moment downloads counters are a complete joke.
For example, this theme wasn’t my best one, but since first day I uploaded it at least it had 50 downloads. Today it has 6? I have dead posts with more downloads
Here (The "downloads today" counter details decrease) @Rokin showed
confused that his theme had 1700 downloads. Now it has 170, and that changed in just a day!