Submissions penalties

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Hi all, I've uploaded some bootskins and I wonder if there're penalties applyied to your skin before validation and in what cases.
I've updated a skin more than one times before validation, and its rating have been lowered to 2 stars.
Another skin was uploaded with bad files, the color tables were different between the image and the progbar, rating lowered to 2 stars before validation.
The skin was not validated, not visible anywhere... except in my Recent Skins page, I guess there are few chances that somebody downrated it.
Is there a link between these facts and the low rating ?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If a bootskin uses a different palette for the background image and progress bar it will not receive a rating at all, it will be rejected. Have you checked your e-mail?

There are no such things as 'penalties'. The rating depends on what people think of the bootskin.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Today I've received the validation for Marvel - Mary Jane skin ; "Thank you for submitting Marvel - Mary Jane to theBootSkins library. Congratulations, it has been approved and is now available".

I notice 3 pbs :
- the skin does neither appear in the main Bootskins page, nor in the "Sort By Newest Skins", nor by searching for "Marvel"
- the skin rating is 2 stars, but I guess no one could find it to vote
- the "Show on my personal page only." box in the edit page of the skin is always checked, but I update this skin 3 times without checking it. It explains why no one can see it ...

Anyone could let me know why ?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The moderators have moved it to your personal page because it has not met the standards of the main gallery.

By placing it there, you can still show your work and get comments.

In the past, low rated work might not be accepted at all.  Moving to your personal pages was a compromise created so you get exposure but the main galleries are not filled with low rated works.

I encourage you to continue making bootskins and strive to improve an move to the main gallery.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

- the skin does neither appear in the main Bootskins page, nor in the "Sort By Newest Skins", nor by searching for "Marvel"

It's been sent to your personal gallery by the mods.

- the skin rating is 2 stars, but I guess no one could find it to vote


When a work goes through moderation, it gets it's first initial rating from the mods themselves.

From a thread I posted, similar to this.. LINK


It's a balance to strike between posting everything to make everyone happy, and being too critical and offending a lot of people.

We felt the best option, especially with something so subjective (and touchy) as wallpapers was to accept anything that does not violate our submission rules, and anything that would have been previously rejected is instead placed as "Personal Page Only" This is to try and avoid bruised egos and hurt feelings that we've often seen when someone has a work rejected.

We're trying to become more welcoming of new members, encourage more content being submitted, more artists frequenting the site etc.
~ Zoomba


I am not sure if you are saying you are unable to remove the check from the personal gallery only box, in which case, there could be a bug in the site. A mod will surely come along to address that.

If your work has 'officially' been sent to your 'personal gallery'...fear not...

Go here..Personal Page Elite Award to claim your medal by yours truly

Then go here for the Personal Page Elite Thread

Zubaz, beat me again. (I was huntin' links. lol)
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
penalties! yes! theres an idea! lets institute a series of penalties!
Jafo corrects my grammer...2 stars removed
Fuzzy posts the explanation of his nick...4 stars removed
Po & skinhit get into another photoshop contest...remove all stars
I LIKE this idea!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
penalties! yes! theres an idea! lets institute a series of penalties!
Jafo corrects my grammer...2 stars removed
Fuzzy posts the explanation of his nick...4 stars removed
Po & skinhit get into another photoshop contest...remove all stars
I LIKE this idea!




It's My Secret

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Po & skinhit get into another photoshop contest...remove all stars


Hmmmmm...

members who hide behind masks get NO stars until they reveal themselves.


(personally...I think there may be some entertainment value to the PS wars and winners should get automatic promotions...like me, for constantly smacking down that doofus!)


*note to self...include MySecret in next PS war for giving Bandit a thumbs up on no stars for ps wars...uh..yeah, like that.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank you all for your replies! I've taken your posts well and had a big laugh thnkx Po' , but I've not catch the modos' tastes
well, I'm a fully nasty gossip, in fact I totally understand that it must be a selection somewhere but when I go to the bootskin page I wonder how some skins have been validated (such a filthy mouth! Sorry everybody).
The worst here is there are no adding notes/mail from WinC about my skin, on the contrary I've been congratulated, nothing on the downrating from modos, nothing on the Personal Page banishing. I really prefer to receive a bad comment with some reasons and then encouragement (thanks Zubaz ) rather than being in the fog. More formative.

Now I will demand my "Personal Page Elite"'s cocoa medal, which I'll stick on my screen during next boot .
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Po & skinhit get into another photoshop contest...remove all stars





(personally...I think there may be some entertainment value to the PS wars and winners should get automatic promotions...like me, for constantly smacking down that doofus!)



Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And if ya want a smilie face, go to walmart.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
walmart sucks
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
walmart sucks


Of course I don't have my underwear. I'm definitely not wearing my underwear.
These are not boxer shorts. Mine are boxer shorts. These are Hanes 32.
My boxer shorts have my name and it says Raymond.
I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati.
Definitely.
Definitely.
These are not my underwear

K-Mart sucks.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Of course I don't have my underwear. I'm definitely not wearing my underwear.


You really should if you're still wearing those God-awful pants!
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I make one lucid statement, have one good idea (the possibility of using some type of penalty to stop Po and skinhit from posting abominations) and suddenly the thread is hijacked into a discussion between a moderating rainman and the banjo picker from Deliverance! No respect....I get NO RESPECT!
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

and the banjo picker from deliverance!

dum....dum...dum....dum...dum....dum.......

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Bandit4edu sucks.
Definitely sucks.
Definitely.

I'm an excellent driver.    
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm an excellent driver.


You don't drive. You know you ride the Bichur Bus.

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
  
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh...I see...one simple little comment on yer Dustin Hoffman impersonation and I suck...but certain other's can leave the entire tail of the Lizard Monkey and never hear a word about it! Favoritism is such an ugly thing...sad, just plain sad.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
but certain other's can leave the entire tail of the Lizard Monkey and never hear a word about it! F


but I DID hear about it.

I think you have your mask tied to tightly and it's cutting off the circulation to your hat.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sometimes the lizard monkey likes to tuck the tail away.  I heard it makes him feel "pretty".
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great. Now I have visions of Zubaz as the Jame Gumb in Silence Of The Lmabs...standing infront of the mirror with 'it' tucked...saying over and over..."It puts the lotion in the basket...".
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tonight on Dateline:
Vain Lizard Monkeys
Trolls who ride the short bus
and
how cosmetic headgear can effect your concentration
plus a special "In Depth" report on a secret government program to control global economics by removing ratings stars
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Zubaz waits for the troll to wander in and REALLY take this thread down