WOM bets the comments and ratings are all good for those WB's.

Hopefully this one Link will be removed by the next available admin...

I second that

I saw the comments. Well it did get thru moderation. And I guess if the author (s) are happy with them.....

Keila thinks is funny how there are skins on there that are not finished that have as good of a rating as skins that are complete and that you know authors put a lot of time and thought into.

Perhaps it is me after all. Maybe I don't understand how you can spend dozens of hour on a skin then not spend ten minutes setting a few margins. Maybe it is too much to expect people to take pride in their work;). Who knows.

It's not about moderation, it's about uploading unfinished work with a 'couldn't care less' attitude. WB moderation is just about making sure the file doesn't bork your system, the quality is irrelevant - all standards are allowed here. But there's a difference between someone starting to skin and not having the knowledge to complete it, and someone having the knowledge to complete a skin but not giving a toss about the end product.

BTW, the problem skin is gone now What was even more disturbing about that was, despite the fact it wasn't usable as a WB skin, it had a rating of 4 from 4 people, including the 1 I gave it... I'd like the other 3 to step forward

*Warning* - Radical idea ahead.

I suggest not showing download counts. It would probably cut out most of the uploads from the download count junkies (popularity whores)

Pardon the language.

Or how about only apprentices+ can see the downloads.

Or how about only apprentices+ can see the downloads.

Better idea!

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NightTrain, I see all of your skins as complete and well-made. I am not a huge fan of your style, but you do good work.
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Thanks guys. Whew. Even though others may disagree , at least there are some people that understand.

Windowblinds has been getting alot of publicity lateley and I would expect the flow of newbies to increase. I think it is an important time for the libries to be respected.

Does everyone think that my screenshots suck... Cuz if ya do I quit and I'm going home!

Wait............
I am Home.....

Your impression is dead on sig101! We would be glad to have WIP's. And we also still have the forums with tut links and other resources for just about every app there is to skin. If you don't see a category there, we will make one for you. People assume that it is just another skin site, but its far more than that. Still in the growing stage mind you, but we are getting there. If there is some interest in it, we could set a special section for WB WIP's in the download area.

I agree wholeheartedly with Fuzzy and it's tough to try to put forward a postive note on a skin that's riddled errors that could easily have been fixed before uploading and at the same time offer to tell the skinner what needs to be fixed. I download every WB skin, I use every skin and I open every skin in SkinStudio. I get the impression from Fuzzy's comments that he does the same. The ones that kill me the most are the ones where you can see that the skinner definitely knows his way around a graphics proggie and can produce some outstanding images, but then botches it all when turning them into a WB skin.

NT...your skins have grown in quality with every new skin and unlike some of these most recent skins....you were open to constructive critism in the beginning on what needed to be fixed

Essencay has it. When I review a skin I download it, use it and open it in SkinStudio. Usually, problems can be fixed easily. I've started to leave comments which are intended to help the skin be fixed, but some people don't appreciate it So I don't know now if it's worth doing that

I thinks the problem here is the honesty of comments. Everyone puts things like "wow, that's incredible" when some of the buttons are unreadable etc. Instead of being honest and saying that grey text on a grey button doesn't work... It's not hard to see that half the comments are left by people who haven't even used the skin...

NT: None of this was aimed at you I believe I left one small critique on one of your skins which was intended to help...hope it read that way

feline: the skin in question was removed. You could open it with SkinStudio, but it only had a few graphics and nothing else. It could not be used as a skin. When people click the download button they expect a WB skin to install!
And then there's the people who rated it - they failed the IQ test! I hope the Admins were taking names...