davad70 - To me this is another mild slap to the face of skinners, who had to work for a very long time at skinning to be able to rate our "peer's" work.
i do see your point here.
i presume you realise that under the "old" (pre subscription) system people who had never made a single skin could aquire the right to rate skins?
as someone who is currently considering skinning, i am very much aware of how much i dont know.
i have been known to rate exceptional skins that moved me, but only normally with a 9 or 10.
perhaps this is just as much an abuse of the rating system as handing out low marks, but what else is there to do?
the arguments are all well familiar by now, and i see sense on both sides.
this may not work, but what about "submitting" your work to those you consider quailfied, and asking for their views directly?
they are likely to be very busy people, but if you truely want informed feedback from people who understand what it took to produce your latest skin, what else is there?
to me, there is a difference between uploading a skin here and making it available to the masses, and getting informed considered analysis from a fellow skinner.
i am already intending to subject poor innocent starone to my first graphic experiments, just as soon as i find time to work out how to use gimp. only later will i consider uploading anything here.
after all, popular isnt quite the same as technically proficent, or of high quality
