I don't believe you wrote the post as an "I'm better than all of you" post, after reading your post a couple times. It just sounds that way when someone uses themselves as an examples.

This question has been asked before maybe we need to change the question or put out a community challenge on how to attract more women into skinning?

Just my two cents.

Kitty since your in Oz i'm not sure if you've seen the "mainland cheese ads from NZ with those two ol' geezers" in a nut shell the point of the ad is that a good cheese takes time same goes for wine,i would assume that you'll get promoted all in good time, tho i gotta say that wednesday wb is most excellant as i use it on the my original hdd

  

Give 'em hell kittymalone. Throw rocks at them, pick those rocks up and throw them again! I've been thinking the same thing for years. Ha! Anyway with steady patience and hand you can achieve whatever you want and for being bipolar thats pretty good! I've been diagnosed as bipolar for 20 years now and I believe I've accomplished everything I set out to do! Keep throwing rocks thought I feels good!

HA! Grand Raspberries to all and to all a good night or day......whatever!        

actually i dont think Bebi agreed with ya...

actually shenaynay agreed with Q ...

And...Your are more than welcome to start your own website and sell your stuff there Kitty just as some others have done. WC isn't the only site where skins get sold. Something to think about.

I would hope that the majority of folks here are mature enough that they wouldn't make fun of you. Again Kitty, your works do and shall speak for themselves, female creations or not. I hope you stay around and continue to submit stuff.   

Where did I agree with you ? I stated that there were lots of others that have been overlooked that have been here 3 and 4 years. ( Men and woman ) I would never agree that the site discriminates against women. There are men here that might rate a ' womans ' skin with less than it deserves because they do not like pink or they dont like frills or whatever. Thats the only time I get pissed about the women/men thing. But as far as being treated different by the administrators and moderators ...I do not believe I have ever been treated any differently. I have been given promotions and Im usually embarrassed by them. I'm not big on fanfare and your post tooting your own horn about being better than some of the other journeymen just doesn't fare well with me. I know my skinning limitations but I also know enough that if I am good at something I would never brag about it and try to bring others down in the meantime. Maybe that was not your intention but being a ' windowblind ' skinner doesn't automatically make you more important than others. You have been here a year - many others have contributed to this site before you in many other ways.

As for you being bipolar and wanting to make a living out of skinning - well thats all well and good. But being disabled doesn't guarantee you a paid position anywhere.
Many of us are disabled and can no longer work and would love to be able to bring in some money and feel productive again. We just don't feel the need to use it as a bargaining tool to get what we want.

As for your skinning - yes you are good but let others tell you...

Well, I'm honestly not sure that this is a problem per se, mainly because I don't know (and if anyone does know, jump in, but I'm inferring from Jafo's comments that no one does) what proportion of skinners that are active members of the site are female. I suspect that the ratio of male:female is pretty large. I'm not at all convinced that this is a reflection on the relative skinning talents of males and females; instead, it's probably just that not as many females are as interested in skinning (in general, it seems that not as many females are computer geeks).

That's the main reason I would disagree with Kitty's original post. My feeling, after hanging around for a few years, is that the site admins are as fair as they can be in light of the fact that it is a non-paying, part-time job.

Kitty, anybody who picks on you for having a mental illness is a complete asshole. Pardon my language, but I have no patience for penisheads of that caliber. Personally, as you know, I think you have a great deal of talent and given some more time, you will undoubtedly be promoted up the chain. I didn't comment on your last WB skin, Vampothika, but I have been using it at home for a week or so, and I think it is one of the most legible skins you've produced yet (which translates to "usable" for me). The text is super easy-to-read, and the skin strikes a great balance between your unique artistic vision and readable and usable elements. I certainly hope you stick around and try to make being part of this community work for you, because your contributions have been great up to this point, and I believe that you will achieve your objectives in time.

Yo, Kitty, your work speaks for itself and eventually you WILL be promoted on its merits. I have no doubt whatsoever on this....mightn't happen right away, but it WILL happen cos you got the talent & right smarts for skinning.

Oh, and there's no disadvantage to being female around here....some of WC's most/best respected skinners happen to be women who have been embraced by the skinning community as a whole.

I agree to an extent that there is a lack of female 'higher ups' in the promotion of skinners, but there is an overall lack of female skinners too. Many skinners get overlooked for promotion when they probably should be. I hung around as a journeyman for what seemed like an eternity.

Being promoted on WC has to do with many things and not just skinning ability. Its also the overall contribution to the skinning community. I personally think you should be promoted beyond Apprentice by now but, not sure about Master (none of which is actually up to me either way).

I'm sure in due time you will be promoted, making 'Master' takes time for everyone and I don't think (nor would I hope) that you being female has anything to do with it. There have been post like this in the past (all by males I believe) saying the same sort of thing. Be patient is all. Expressing the fact that you would like to be promoted to the proper people and in a less public 'forum' might have been a better choice and a viable option for getting a possible promotion

Kitty, I certainly hope you stay here! I've always admired your spunk and your talent! You're an awesome skinner! You seem to me as being a fun and caring person with a free spirit. Awesome qualities, and they're reflected in your work! You are a respected and loved member of this community! I've seen it from time to time in comments and even here in this forum. Sure there may be a disagreement going on, but I can still sense it. Your personality and style would be sorely missed!

I can be quite emphatic there is none, not from either the Stardock OR Wincustomize facets of site administration.

Were anyone to be found to be discriminatory their position would be terminated.  In some things, not just with warez promotion, spam, etc, there's zero tolerance.