I've long said ratings and comments should be linked. No hiding place! If you give a low rating, fine, but say why. On what basis are you giving a rating? It should be on merit, nothing else.

For me, as said before, I award the following:

Skill level - 3 marks
Functionality - 3 marks
Appearence - 3 marks
With 1 further mark for something exceptional which has already gained 9 max from the other categories.

Sometimes it can be frustrating to have mixed ratings. My latest skin was a 8 after two ratings, at the next it was a 6 - you can add and divide that using fingers It now 7 after nine ratings, so things even out eventually.

It would be nice to have enough ratings to loose, say, the two highest and two lowest ratings. That would even out the anomalies. Sadly not enough people rate to do that

I have a skin named after me?! I'm speechless, which is strange considering I just gave 2 of em

Horizon..I am an artist

https://www.wincustomize.com/myskins.asp?AuthorID=193183

I do my homework before I open my mouth and risk making myself look like a fool. I'm not directing anything at you, trying to flame you, and or otherwise trying to just be an [explitive deleted].

I do kinda wonder how your library is empty but you have an apprentice level, though I've seen it before with dreamdesign3d when he simply deleted everything.

I more wonder why you think it's questionable for me to rate a rip a 1, and questionable for me to rate it anything else higher than a 1. In my eyes yes rips are rips, but we will always have to deal with it. There is FAR too much for us to filter through it all, and even worse prove it by providing the original. So when I can prove it, I report. If I can't I use the best judgement I am able to.

What else can one ask of another?

here is some of lecrayon's work horiz0n:
http://www.skinbase.org/gallery.php?page=1&order=2&sorted=dates&uname=lecrayon&display=1

at least I think this is the same guy.

Probably is, he shoulda said, "fine arts" as anyone I see on this site I assume use this site. Of course it could be possible he changed his name too I suppose.

It now 7 after nine ratings

man, only one of my skins has two ratings that i know of... i wish people would take the time and comment though...

oh well, people just happen to be lazy.

horiz0n.....it's pointless to rate ripped work at any level, '1' or '10' for that matter.

The correct action is to notify an Admin of its existence and have it 'rated' correctly, namely 'removed', perhaps along with its author....

Jafo, have you looked at the icons I ment in my email? I doubt the orgin from them, check the comment section of it, it may also be usefull. (and then we are not even looking at the fact that most of them are standard icons).

/me will now shut up, knowing he is demanding an expensive thing; time

well as a temp solution in high hopes of being useful, when i see something ripped i rate it a 1. Then the chances of people seeing it are less between the time email is sent and mods remove it. If you'd like I could send about 800 emails pointing out ripped work lol. I'd send it all at once of course but you wouldn't get it till march lol

spring cleaning anyone?
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I must concur that the rating system is a joke. I recently spent hours updating my Batman skin. I added toolbar icons, menu buttons and fixed,changed and improved many images. I also analyzed and fixed every error identified in Skin Studio, something that I've seen no other skin do before. For example, that great and beautiful skin by Mormegil, Christmas Time, has 77 errors identified in Skin Studio. My skin was originally a 8 rating. And after all the work I put into updating that Batman skin, the rating dropped to a 7. Therefore, I do think the rating system is a joke. Not that I really care, I wasn't even going to rant about it until I saw this thread. What's the use in being flamed, but here it is and flame on if you must. That said, I do believe the rating system serves a good purpose. It just seems that some people abuse it or use it maliciously.

quick travis, change your name to the human torch and smite him, SMITE THEM ALL!!!!

Chas...one problem is that each time a skin is updated it attracts more attention and therefore usually more ratings....now if the skin was originally OK and had a '8'...then you made it brilliantly perfect but someone was not overly thrilled and gave it a '4' then though it had 'improved' as a skin the rating would now be a '6'.

It happens....and can be annoying, but generally the more times a skin is rated the more 'accurate' the median becomes...

Chas...one problem is that each time a skin is updated it attracts more attention and therefore usually more ratings....now if the skin was originally OK and had a '8'...then you made it brilliantly perfect but someone was not overly thrilled and gave it a '4' then though it had 'improved' as a skin the rating would now be a '6'.

It happens....and can be annoying, but generally the more times a skin is rated the more 'accurate' the median becomes...

Botheration....

admins have problems with double clicks too!

travis is a peaceful crazy gorilla. he likes to smell the flowers before he eats them.


and I won't light myself on fire. I have done that before and it was not very entertaining...at least to me.

i am going to make a bootskin about you travis, can i?

I do my homework before I open my mouth and risk making myself look like a fool. I'm not directing anything at you, trying to flame you, and or otherwise trying to just be an [explitive deleted].

That was a personal attack Horizon..Blah
Not submitting to this site, or withdrawing work from this site doesn't make me a lesser artist, nor does it make me a fool or an explitive deleted.
And it is not "fine arts" what I do.

What I wanted to point out is that constructive criticism together with a low mark is a far better way than giving low ratings only.
Read my earlier posts in this thread please.
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I am getting tired of being harassed when I do open my mouth here, and being judged on what is submitted to the WC library.
**sigh**

Jacob....when people may not know you they are likely to seek info such as checking submitted works, etc and will likely jump to [incorrect] conclusions.

It's difficult maintaining an online personna that remains consistent to all so that assumptions are not jumped-to...

BTW....'expletive', not 'explicitly'....

Cool, those "update Thread" buttons.
It's "Edit Thread", it's "Edit Thread"...
And I stand corrected: "expletive"

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