Sleeping Dragon! You have some nice shots! They are rated high too! Do
the people who rate these, rate them by how much stuff is on the screen!
originality! Or is it rated by taste! Cause some people have bad taste!

I have been told that it is a combination of how much effort the person put into the screenshot, how well everything fits together, how usable the setup would be on someone else's screen, and I guess to a degree how aesthetically pleasing (the color schemes) are. Unfortunately, the last one I mentioned is very, very subjective and so long as we have a ratio of more males than females in the higher up positions rating the screenshots, I'm afraid the pinks and purples (like a lot of my stuff) aren't even going to be taken seriously. There is one in particular of mine called MagicPastels that I was hoping would get a higher rating because I put a whole lot of effort into it, searching for just the right Windowblind, recoloring it in such a fashion that it matched the wall I picked out, choosing a Rainy that just seemed to go with it as well as cursors recolored and Sysmetrix. I provided alternate choices even for screensavers and walls, named all of the authors and skin names and provided links to the ones that are outside of WC's library. It still only got a 6. Makes me feel bad because I know I cannot contribute the skins themselves, but it's like people are saying I can't even put together something nice. I was awfully proud of that particular one but still no dice. So... all I can say is, submit whatever and you never know what people are going to like and choose. But a word of warning: never express your opinion unless it explicitly agrees with the powers that be. Your stuff will always get low ratings if you differ in opinion, especially even if you complain.

But a word of warning: never express your opinion unless it explicitly agrees with the powers that be. Your stuff will always get low ratings if you differ in opinion, especially even if you complain.

What an insulting comment. Moderators here are completely unbaised, regardless of what opinions or disagreements anyone has. I think you should issue a public apology to the hard working volunteers without whom this site would not function.

I'm not a moderator and I disagree with you 100%. I don't think you are a troll, either. Just wrong. It's amazing how many people think that they can run this site better than it is now. Well they have done something right for it to be as popular as it is. And the admins volunteer their time. I asked you to stay at this site one time, and you should. But why don't you try to be positive instead of critical?

i'm not a skinner either so i can understand where they're coming from, i guess.

But see Snidely I consider you a skinner because you at least know how to do ports to Windowblinds and I absolutely love your stuff, in fact I downloaded 2 whole pages of your work today because I'm preparing for when I get exiled. And just because you're not a "skinner" per se, doesn't mean your opinion has to have less clout around here. We all do different things well, but our opinions should all be taken into consideration.

ok... I might as well slip in a lill "insider info" here:

When I approve any screenshots I give them a '5' (based on the old rating-system - 2.5 based on the new system)
I do not consider:
1) What the screenshot(s) displays
2) Who uploaded the screenshot(s)

Every single screenshot get the same rating because screenshots are and will always be screenshots
Pressing the printscreen button, pasting the image into an image editor and the uploading that image doesnt require any skills - anyone can do that!

Creating a skin from the bottom is a whole diff matter...

PS.: My personal opinion is that screenshots shouldnt be rateable at all.

Angel on Ice: I'm a moderator on this site, and I have never even heard of you, or seen one of your screenshots. I can't understand why you think you are on the verge of being exiled, or why you think you are on some kind of blacklist. If you had been a problem, I would surely have seen you mentioned on the Admin message board, but I haven't. With regard to ratings on screenshots, when I moderate them I take a quick glance to see if they are racial or pornographic, and if they are o.k. I put them through with a rating of 6, all of them. I believe the other moderators do this too, as we have no reason to make a judgement on screenshots at all, and it matters not to us what happens to them once we have approved them. So, if your screenshots have been rated down at some point, then it has been done by your peers, and not the moderators. I'm sorry that you believe we are biased, but really, we aren't. I doubt we would have been chosen as moderators if we displayed that kind of tendency. I like to think that I am always fair and honest in my moderation of wallpapers, which is the only thing that we actually moderate for quality. I like and trust all my fellow moderators, and I really do think that you are seeing them in a wrong light. I hope you can get past this, and that continue to upload to this site, hopefully you will realise in the end that we're not such a bad bunch, and that we love what we do, and that we don't harbour bad feelings against anyone.   I will look out for your screenshots, and hopefully leave you an honest comment, although I rarely visit that section.

Angel on Ice - I'm not a admin nor a mod but the way I look at the situation your just digging yourself a hole. As far as I can see NO ONE is out to get you. I understand you had some problems over the whole site glitch where some people were accidently promoted but other than that I fail to see how you can say the things you do. I've always found the admins at this site to kind and caring and very unbiased. Believe me I know as I used to be the BIGGEST troublemaker.

So what say we try to get along?

Believe me I know as I used to be the BIGGEST troublemaker.

I remember those days Kona

Some people think it's a total mess already...u want to make it worse??? OTT, yes i think so..unless u want something else to make your day more.....um...interesting

Can I get on your nerves?? I have an important screenie that needs a high rating

Wizop Woman?