Boy! A guy must to have the guts to write this, I allways respected you, Koasati, but from now on, my respect is even bigger.

I really appreciate seeing that post by Kaosati. That took courage. I am always saddened by the attacks on Stardock and Frogboy. I'm not one of the "Stardock Mafia" or even one of the "in crowd" (actually I wouldn't even qualify as a skinner)but I consider Stardock to be the best thing that ever happened to the Windows desktop. I have been a hopeless addict of desktop customization since 1989 when I found a program that would give you 256 color choices in DOS 3, and when I found Windowblinds, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I have been at Wincustomize since the day it went online and have seen a lot of cruel things said on this message board. I sincerely hope we can become kinder to people.

oh mushy stuff!

Bro you know Brad is gonna make ya sweat for two days on this right? hehe

Doreen thinks it is nice to see a man speak his heart and aplogize like that very neat bro (though next week you all know we will all beat up Brad again cuz it's just so much fun to beat him up!)

That was nice hear.

Thanks Koasati,

But you really have nothing to apologize for. You've been a true contributor to the community for years and years. Heck, your access here is at Journeyman which says a lot (for one thing it means anything you uploaded bypasses moderation and goes directly into the database, there are probably only a couple dozen people with that access out of the 10 million who visit each year with that access).

Your post on Skinbase wasn't rude or mean. You gave your opinion as you saw it.

The important thing is that it really shows how important perception is. Each day we do things that can be interpreted in different ways by different people.

I think your initial view of the access system is a good example. From one point of view, having different access systems reeks of elitism. From another point of view it's a godo way of rewarding people who contribute while making the site easier to run (i.e. your access level means that your stuff doesn't have to be moderated which saves moderators times and at the same time gives you more freedom to update things and not have to worry about it taking days to show up).

But it's all in perception. What I've had to slowly learn over the years is to become aware of how important percpetion is. Not every deed will be interepreted as it was intended. As an engineer, I've been slow to grasp that. We all make interepretations based on the data available to us. Since I'm here at Stardock, I know that the actions fo the company are based on a collaboration involving dozens of people. But since I post the most, other people will see it and give me undue credit/blame (i.e. some people think I code WindowBlinds for instance and another person will think that every rule on WinCustomize was decided by me - for instance, I was against having the honorific "lord").

Anyway, to make a long story shorter, thanks for your kind post. You didn't say anything wrong. You stated things that many people believe and there is nothing wrong with that because at least you had the courage and principles to write what you believed to be true and listen to both sides of such a discussion. It's people like you that make skinning worth it in the first place.

where's the dang kleenex!

With that said, where does a newcomer go to learn how to perform the magic you do?

Koa, you suck up! Have you been lurking that peace pipe again?

craeonics hands Koa a stick

Here, now go squash that frog!

motion...that'd probably be 'studding'...if there was a present participle of a verb to 'stud'....or is that transitive and intransitive?....heck, I don't know....all I know is I need a beer...

It's hot as h where I am, and all the radiated warmth emerging from this thread is killing me!