Rating?

I think you can rate a skin from the Wincustomize site. Click on the skin and it should be there.

hmmm... I can't see any rate options next to the skins, where should I be looking exactly?

you have to be an apprentic or a subscriber to rate.

may sound like a funny question, but how do I become an apprentice then?

Active members of the site eventally get promoted Jibba. Submitting skins, posting in the msg board, leaving people comments, etc.

ok, thanks paxx... I will leave lots of comments on skins

Just remember a constructive comment is worth 10 one-word comments any day

yeah.......

definitely

How can someone get the rating back on a skin when it is taken offline and updated.

The users have raised a skin of mine to 9 and if I update it with the start menu panel backgrounds it will go back to a 6 when the monitor puts it back on-line.

I never leave one word comments...

I've been writing comments on skins all day (50+ comments) and I don't think a single one was just a one word comment

Sally, I had the same problem myself. I had a skin rated 8 that dropped to 5 when I updated. Too bad the rating doesn't carryover like the number of downloads does.

hmmm... the rating doesn't carry over when someone updates their skin? surely that must be a bug?

What if you had 15 people rate your work, and you just updated to include an single extra icon or fix some little speck on a wallpaper... it then erases all those ratings? and goes back to 5? sounds like a bug to me, I can't see it being designed that way?

It doesn't automatically go back to 5. What I think is that the old ratings are wiped out and the new rating is whatever the moderator thought of your skin.

I wish one of the Wizops would answer this one.

Would an admin please settle this question?

When new skins are posted, they have no rating. A moderator must give it a rating when they approve it. Updated skins appear in the same que as new ones, so it's possible that a moderator gave it a rating out of habit, without realizing that it already had been posted and rated. This is not necessarily what happened in this case, but it is a possibility. I know there is no automatic mechanism that would change a skin's rating when it is updated. Which skin was it, Sally?

I want to update the skin Ctrl D World but it has a rating of 9 and seems the moderator is stuck on 6.

I did update it once before to fix a few bugs and it dropped from 8 to 6 and now it is up to 9. Quandary, update and drop the rating or keep the 9.

IMO There should be a rating curve for those that can't afford Photoshop which gives an edge to making graphics. How many 10 rated skins are made w/o Photoshop?

Sorry to reopen this question but I too have wondered about rating... or even seeing the rating of other skins? I am a level 3 user through the purchase of stardock products however I am unable to rate or even see ratings other then the ratings on my skins.

Thank you for any info that you can give.

§tatic.

I Quote the following from wincustomize's subscription info:

On WinCustomize there are 4 levels of users:

Level 1: Visitor. These are users who haven't created accounts. They can download up to 5 megabytes of content before having to create an account.

Level 2: WinCustomize registered user. These are users who have created accounts. Accounts are free to create. Registered users can create posts, talk on the message boards, submit skins, make comments on skins, participate on polls, etc. In the future, there will be a cap on how many megabytes of content they can download without some sort of limitation being placed (such as being put into a download queue).

Level 3: Object Desktop / Stardock customer / Elite User. These are users who have either purchased Object Desktop or some other Stardock product (Stardock is WinCustomize's sponser), or has Apprentice access or higher due to contributing to the site in other forms (making skins, being an active contributor to the message boards, etc.). These users get all the benefits of a registered user plus the ability to rate skins and can download an unlimited amount of content.

Level 4: WinCustomize Subscriber. Users who become subscribers get all the benefits of level 3 users plus:

The [SkinBrowser].
Premium Skin Suites.
Up to 1,000 free impressions for your own personalized ad.
Extra WinCustomize features.
Other goodies.

Sally... using PSP is not a disadvantage. I wish I could find some of Doodle's old work to show you what can be accomplished with PSP. His work was amazing. Many of his skins looked as if he crafted them with a 3D editor, but all done with PSP.
So quit worring that you don't have PS, and concentrate on what you do have.

btw.........does anyone know what happen to Doodle?

Doodle's site is hosted by someone else now, can't remember who though.I will find it and post a link.
Doodle is a fantastic artist, his stuff always blew me away!

Doodle's site is here: http://doodle.quadrent.net/ but it appears to be down at the moment.
You can see some of his stuff if you go here http://doodle.deviantart.com and scrolldown till you see "List all deviations".
Have fun.
P.S. The Turtle Soup skins are just stunning!

BoXXI, you mentioned that admins can't tell the difference between new skins and updated skins.

To me, this is a glaring problem that needs fixing. If the updates are in a separate que the moderator could basically rubberstamp it since an earlier version had already been approved. This would allow updated skins to go up much faster than the 1-3 day current wait. This would possibly also lighten the admin workload. While this system has a small potential for abuse, I doubt it would occur much (if at all) on this site.

It's simple enough to distinguish between a new skin and an updated one. The new skin will be in the queue with a '0' rating and '0' downloads. An updated one will have a finite rating already, and most likely 'some' downloads.
The rating 'shouldn't' change simply through updating the skin except for two possible reasons.
1. the skinner has abused the updating process to get his work 'seen' and the Admins have noticed, perhaps penalizing the rating, or at least letting the skin fester in the upload section 'for a while'.
or
2. Simply because the skin is back in public prominence, it has attracted further people to rate it and this has modified the score.

The latter is the more likely...