hmmm... I can't see any rate options next to the skins, where should I be looking exactly?

may sound like a funny question, but how do I become an apprentice then?

ok, thanks paxx... I will leave lots of comments on skins

yeah.......

How can someone get the rating back on a skin when it is taken offline and updated.

The users have raised a skin of mine to 9 and if I update it with the start menu panel backgrounds it will go back to a 6 when the monitor puts it back on-line.

Sally, I had the same problem myself. I had a skin rated 8 that dropped to 5 when I updated. Too bad the rating doesn't carryover like the number of downloads does.

It doesn't automatically go back to 5. What I think is that the old ratings are wiped out and the new rating is whatever the moderator thought of your skin.

I wish one of the Wizops would answer this one.

When new skins are posted, they have no rating. A moderator must give it a rating when they approve it. Updated skins appear in the same que as new ones, so it's possible that a moderator gave it a rating out of habit, without realizing that it already had been posted and rated. This is not necessarily what happened in this case, but it is a possibility. I know there is no automatic mechanism that would change a skin's rating when it is updated. Which skin was it, Sally?

Sorry to reopen this question but I too have wondered about rating... or even seeing the rating of other skins? I am a level 3 user through the purchase of stardock products however I am unable to rate or even see ratings other then the ratings on my skins.

Thank you for any info that you can give.

§tatic.

I Quote the following from wincustomize's subscription info:

On WinCustomize there are 4 levels of users:

Level 1: Visitor. These are users who haven't created accounts. They can download up to 5 megabytes of content before having to create an account.

Level 2: WinCustomize registered user. These are users who have created accounts. Accounts are free to create. Registered users can create posts, talk on the message boards, submit skins, make comments on skins, participate on polls, etc. In the future, there will be a cap on how many megabytes of content they can download without some sort of limitation being placed (such as being put into a download queue).

Level 3: Object Desktop / Stardock customer / Elite User. These are users who have either purchased Object Desktop or some other Stardock product (Stardock is WinCustomize's sponser), or has Apprentice access or higher due to contributing to the site in other forms (making skins, being an active contributor to the message boards, etc.). These users get all the benefits of a registered user plus the ability to rate skins and can download an unlimited amount of content.

Level 4: WinCustomize Subscriber. Users who become subscribers get all the benefits of level 3 users plus:

The [SkinBrowser].
Premium Skin Suites.
Up to 1,000 free impressions for your own personalized ad.
Extra WinCustomize features.
Other goodies.

Doodle's site is hosted by someone else now, can't remember who though.I will find it and post a link.
Doodle is a fantastic artist, his stuff always blew me away!

BoXXI, you mentioned that admins can't tell the difference between new skins and updated skins.

To me, this is a glaring problem that needs fixing. If the updates are in a separate que the moderator could basically rubberstamp it since an earlier version had already been approved. This would allow updated skins to go up much faster than the 1-3 day current wait. This would possibly also lighten the admin workload. While this system has a small potential for abuse, I doubt it would occur much (if at all) on this site.