I think what most are saying is that there are too many game threads and not enough pertaining to skinning. Granted cross posting offers exposure to those on other forums but ..... those are game forums, this is the WC forum and is or rather should be dedicated to skinning stuff. Game threads are fine, in their place, occasionally here, but IMO admins could reduce them by eliminating duplicates, The Ban Thread for one. Get rid of the old one, keep the new one and discourage games that repeat what is already going but under another name, i.e. Ink Blotch = Word Association. one or the other.

Yes you wuz WG ... I seed you. Now lets go run and hide somep'ace. lol

I would like to take you up on that. Kinda like IR did some years ago. PM me and we'll sort out the details.

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I own skinstudio's ass and it won't get the best of me!

All well and good if the posts are visited. Not to be complaining but  my SMX post is dying an ignoble death I think. If I didn't resurrect it it would have been buried.

I for one would just like to know if there is some goal or desired end result to the forum mix. Just a SWAG on my part but it doesn't seem that this is going over well with most of the skinning community.

that astroboy startmenu would be a great place to start

There was one awhile ago. It was called Curried Cabbage. Never got very far I'm afraid.

You still do. 

Curried Cabbage is a great place to start imho... damned beautiful graphics!

Then there's this one:

Still have it. And Astroboy. And an assload.  I get stuck. I get stuck, then I get frustrated and mad and don't want to look at it and then I start another one and it begins again. There is no order to it in my head. Iconpacks I can break down and seperate. But when I start an iconpack, my head starts thinking of a blind to go with it and I'm back to staring at a blind and getting frustrated.

A lot of folks have tried to help me. But folks have their own things to work on and their own lives and I am just fucking weird when it comes to asking or pushing. (I think I may not be the only one, too.) Right now, I have nothing but time. I've been housebound since October and going nutz. yadda yadda.

My suggestion is to simply TAKE BACK the forums. Stop whining and stop waiting for admins and mods to do what doesn't really need to be done. If the majority of the posts are NOT about skinning that's because the majority of the posts are not about skinning. You can't make someone post about something they don't give two farts about. Paid subs, how long you've been here,  and everything else aside..the majority is going to win this one. SO take it back. I cut my teeath on that Rare Icon thread when I first came here.and learned a lot. There are a lot of new skinners around here. Use them to take the forums back instead of letting them see a bunch of whiny veterans. It makes us, the site, and skinning look bad.

While I am writing and have anyone's attention, I would also like to take a second to apologize to everyone who has tried to help me with skinning and anyone who has waited for me to finish one of those stupid skins. My frustration aside, I have been kind of going down hill the past few months and holding a very private little pity party. Right now, there is no end in sight and I'm in some pain. But I do give a shit and I haven't forgotten. I save every damn thing hoping I'll get a break, have a breakthrough, or something hopeful so I can go back to it. From blinds, icons, DXThemes, Widgets, etc.

Bunk  

Have not been able to figure that out for the blinds, as I said. No more than I could come up with the work flow to build a web site or a rocketship.

I don't want to make all of this about my OCD. My main point is that we should be trying to take back the forums ourselves instead of filling them up with negative stuff. I'm starting to understand what some people mean when they say they are on the ignore list. Eleven replies before one to my post at #19 and I don't personally think my ideas were that out there or unreasonable. Compared to requests (and I think I even made one or two when all this crap started) to recode the site and split this up and have the admins shut the threads down. I think the big difference is my ideas involved us having to do the work.

Post#19. I don't want to write all that shit over again. Post #19.

I don't see anyone else coming up with anything that doesn't involve rehashing what the admins need to do or asking in a different way 'Why is this happening' (and if you have and I missed it, I apologize) . If you want the powers that be to do something I would suggest a new mod or admin to incorporate and coordinate my ideas or any ideas and oversee them (nothing at all against any of the current mods or admins, I am just assuming they have enough on their plates as it is). They wouldn't be a moderator as much as an activity coordinator. Someone has to lead or it will fall apart just like all the OCCUPY crap did.

Yes.

I'll PM you. I just got up (very rough night). Typing all this stuff, I just knocked over a full cup of coffee across my desk and keyboard.

Happy Birthday, John..........

There is a birthday thread over here --------------------->   https://forums.wincustomize.com/415104