Gosh....life goes on while one sleeps.
Dang these time-zones...
Denny03...clearly since you have the intestinal fortitude to publicly announce you are the author of the '1' it is clearly not a nasty, vindictive rating [safe in anonymity]. I applaud your candour...
Lady Akasha...take it from me your subsequent submissions will NOT be affected by your opinion/s expressed here, or anywhere else. A goodly proportion of your submissions succeed, and I'm sure that'll simply increase with time....
A work not requiring 'moderation/approval' such as is the case for Adni18, and others at a similar 'access level' receive an auto '6' when uploaded. They are therefore invisible to the casual visitor and require subsequent 'adjustment' by legitimate public rating.
Some of these works actually receive several comments and are public for a considerable time yet still languish with the 'auto-6'....I think I still have some like that after months.
Now, were ALL works to be moderated, no matter who they were by, there are quite a few currently online that perhaps would have made it no further than the cutting-room floor.
Even the 'best' authors create crap at times. I am certainly not the 'best', so I self-moderate to not abuse my position/access status....and then think I've achieved something when I reach 100,000 downloads...
People the likes of Dark Mist deserve the real praise...not the 'Masters' or 'Journeymen', whatever. He's submitted more walls than most but has had precious few of them approved. Not a whimper about it....no complaints about vexatious admins or ratings....just plods on and 'has another go'....
Whether a wall here is done by Nikos, Bryan or even Helder it is not a foregone conclusion that they are all par-excellence. Sure, I personally have rated many of their works a '10', but there are others I would actually have moderated...why?...because the '10's I give become the standard by which their other works are to be judged.
Vanity is a powerful influence on our lives. It is often hard to accept that perhaps not everything we do will be well received. C'est la Vie...[probably stuffed that up...my French courses were over, 33 years ago]...
