personally i don´t see why any of these screenshots should be rated 8 or 9.

usually i only rate when i see such threads appearing. so i had a look at your´s. i rated it 5. there´s nothing spectular in it. a skin by somebody else. a boring wallaper. matching icons. a Rainlendar and Winamp skin by you. the Winamp skin isn´t great at all and has many jaggies and other distracting elements (the sliders in particular). the Rainlendar skin is quite ok.
overall pretty average (i´ve seen worse, but just as many better). that´s why i gave it a five.

not sure if that was what you were hoping when you was starting the thread. but i´m sure a few people will give your screenshot a high rating, not because it´s really great, but in order to "balance" what you consider to low.

Could any admin take a look at who's going on this way ??

did you have a look at how many views those had. it´s very likely the 4s and 5s are the admin ratings

moshi, when i began this thread, my "last" screenshot (Pixel8) was'nt yet uploaded (well it was "waiting for aproval ).
Anyway i'm not stuck to 4/5 against 8/9, what i mean is that some are first rating 8 (for example) by an admin, and then, without any comment left by anyone on it, the rating goes to 5 with just one more rating ==> that means someone gave a 2 !!!
That's this way of practising i'm pointing on ...

Same old song and dance about ratings.... (sigh)

i was rating the one you gave the link for (neocyber) or something like that. it has three ratings. one was my five. if you demand to remove the "2" (IF there is any) why not demanding to remove the "8" (IF there is any) as well as it would be far to high.

there are other ways to get self-esteem than screenshot ratings, believe me. looking at your profile it seems that you upload a screenshot every few days. sometimes even two a day. that´s a pretty odd hobby in my eyes

does anyone actually care what their ratings are? if you do, why?

moshi....there are a few who upload anything up to a dozen at a time.......I've never really understood exactly 'why' they do....but they do.

Screenshots have always been a tool for demonstrating an example of something...or a work-in-progress.....maybe how a wall works well with a skin....something like that....but to obsess about them as perhaps an 'artform' is just a little weird...

does anyone actually care what their ratings are? if you do, why?

Yes, I, for one, care what my skins/walls/whatever are rated...

A high rating tells me I did something right and that people like what I made.

A low rating tells me people think my work was crap...

A high rating gives me more downloads because it is visible to the unregestered public, and vice-versa.

So, yes, ratings are important to me...
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Kona, you upload because you want ppl to download your work (or in your case, others work that you uploaded)...and use it...

If you get a low rating...you see that people dont like it...and dont think its worth their time to download.

Believe me Kona, its different when you actually MAKE the skin/wall yourself, rather than getting permission to 'rip' anothers work and upload it under your name

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EventHorizon, you are right for skins, except these are screenshots. You don't download screenshots.They are there just to look at.

EventHorizon, you are right for skins, except these are screenshots. You don't download screenshots.They are there just to look at.

well isn't that all most skins are...to look at. Some add functionallity, but in reality they mostly just change the appearence. However you don't use a screenshot...you do a skin.

Getting lots of downloads on a skin you 'made with your own hands' is a hundred+ times more satisfying than getting a good number on someone elses skin that you uploaded.

that is so true.