adni, you're just a victem of your own popularity.

However, I have noticed that you tend to churn out similar looking works with great technical skill. What you do is lovely and all worth having on my desktop, it's just they're not really that creative anymore with only a few exceptions.

Fuzzy Logic: When paxx said "They receive an automatic rating of 6", he was referring to some people.

When I said "That would be the rating a moderator gives it when it is approved", I was referring specifically to bakerstreet.

Only Journeymen and above have automatic approval. Bakerstreet is not a Journeymen or above. It's all right here: https://www.wincustomize.com/index.asp?Cmd=about

Lecrayon....most sorry you downloaded it....itr eally wasn't worth the effort...except of course that it is a common standard of Bryce work that IS submitted [and naturally rejected]...and a clear example of extremely simplistic 'let the proggy do the creating' that many erroneously believe to be some-how wonderful.
Mine was just to prove...it took me longer to install the proggy than it did to 'create the work'...followed by all that wasted life and effort waiting for a render.
No matter how 'groovy' a newbie to Bryce might think 'his' work is, it really isn't.

My cat walking on my keyboard could probably do a better Bryce than mine was.

But like all methods of 'art' creation, there are people who CAN do it better than others. I'd just like to think that anything along the standard of mine would be drowned at birth...

And that means that I have a piece of Jafo's crap.

Um.... I kind of hate bouncing this thread up again (but it is real near the top anyway)

I just wanted to say that people do not see the same way ever. Some people (me included) see minute, microscopic detail (right now I am looking into an office nearly two blocks distant. A woman was talking on the phone, her shoulders drooped, and she sat down hard in front of the computer but she is not working. just sitting still). Some people see the big picture better. I can not really describe that, but I think it must be why my sister doesn't understand why I need to sweep up all the crumbs and polish off all the water-drops from the glasses.

How is it relevant here? I can get way off on extremely minute details. I see a lot of that kind of innovation in adni18's work. It is outstanding to me and I appreciate it. I know that other works are rich in the visual presentation that I normally do not appreciate; therefore, I do not dispute the ratings or comments that other people make. As far as I am concerned, the way people work, the way they grow and evolve cannot be mandated to any standard. It is something within them and that they respond to within their own time parameters. The direction they evolve in is individual (thank God) and by nature must proceed as their nature leads them.

For me, I would never dream of rating a skin I did not download and play with, nor could I ever rate a skin in context of any other work than just that skin. Much of the time I do not rate at all.

Ah well, JM. To tell you the honest truth, I am in a fragile state of mind right now. I am not brave enough to open many of these threads. I have enough real life hurt that I am trying not to see all this other stuff. It took all my nerve to post just that. You have my permission to cut and paste whatever you want. I just don't have the heart for a lot of this any more. sorry.

I hate to continue this thread, but you all have to remember...do the skins for your pleasure. Sure its great to see a high rating on your skin, and a real high to see alot of downloads, and even to get into the top author's list from time to time even though its usually only for a day. We all enjoy that ego boost, but its still your work, your hard work and whether or not you get good ratings or bad, or good comments or bad, it all comes down to the fact that you were happy and satisfied with it and in the long run that's all that really matters.

Very well said Swtnssss ! Merry Christmas

Thank you goodmorphing, your opinion is opposite than kinrik's and this sould give a lot of thoughts to everyone.

I don't want to go on with this thread, I respect the beautiful spirit of Christmas, which doesn't fit with this misery kind of arguments.

And so, on that note, we return you to your regularly scheduled programming.......

repetetive = repetitive, i think...

Kinrik, if it makes you feel any better, I know what you are trying to point out!

As you say..."misinterpretations apparently abound."

That is the problem with the typed word over the face to face, looking into the eyes word.
It is too easy to misunderstand what the person who typed it intended it to mean.

also, in caase inquiring minds want to know, i have tried the following:

windowblinds
quicknotes
sysmetrix
rainlendar
some variation of liteSTEP (don't recall the shell replacement's name anymore)
beatnik

and a handful of other apps i don't recall anymore.

i have commented on the skins i was interested in at the time relating to what i used.

pretty much right now i just check out the walls and use sysmetrix. i get way too busy to have the other stuff running and be of real use to me.