Hear hear!

Both of you are correct...and in a general sense I am as well. Maybe the rating system is not desirable...maybe it is. The "Like it" /"Don't like it" doesn't really solve anything more than the stars. Maybe just get rid of the rating system altogether and just let folks take what they want and leave what they don't.

I'm no expert at this, and don't pretend to be. There's no perfect system, that's for sure. "What I like" isn't uniform and can't be....even in the same person over time. Maybe just forget about the ratings altogether. What do they really contribute? Is anything really dependent on them?

I agree with Vamps and Snowy on this topic. It just isn't worth it.

If you think about it any ratings system is open for abuse, suspicion of others, controversy, blah blah etc..

Seems to me.. there's no real need for any kind of rating system, especially if it isn't accurate, just let people download what they like and thats that. Perhaps everyone will get a fair shake if people aren't sorting by ratings and missing some good little nuggets that have been downrated.

I'm also for heightening quality levels back to where they were when WC was respected for it's high quality skins and wallpapers.

More.. is never better.. unless it's girls in a hot tub

I agree. I think some my stuff get's high ratings because some of you are over kind. This makes the whole system even more confuzzled.  I appreciate the support more than I can say, but I think the downloads say more than the ratings. My stuff isn't for 'everybody' and I've done a lot of rare icon requests that only a handful of people might ever use. I also look back on what I did when I first started compared to more recent stuff and it'a almost embarrasing. I've thought about removing a lot of it but get overly nostalgic when I start to look through the stuff.

I'll be glad when the rating system is gone. I have to ask (and you know I do) How will this work with 'wallpapers' for example, that don't go into the main gallery because the mods didn't give it more than two stars?

I've heard stories about that test and how one of my walls got passed around.

It was chocolate.

You sick monkeys.

Wallpapers will still be moderated.

That's not an easy accomplishment.  We need more people submitting here.

Perhaps they would if they thought their work wouldn't be buried so quickly..

I dunno.. just a thought.

In certain galleries, it can get burried pretty fast.

Other galleries seem 'dominated' by certain individuals by no fault of their own. I'd like to see more people involved in them, submitting art and all. I have kept from submitting to some galleries because I know it will be burried in a day because of this.

Perhaps in the next WC contest, these galleries can be added. They may not be the most popular galleries but maybe drawing attention to them this way would help break up the monotony/monopoly on them.

I've heard that this has been argued before, but I think the OD gallery should be split into icons and into docks.

This would prevent docks from becoming buried. I really have to side with John and WebGizmos in this discussion (although I didn't ask WG's permission to use his name here, it's no big secret that he has argued this in the past).

Other solutions should/could be found for other galleries, I believe, like putting a rule in that game/app icons be submitted in sets of three to five....just an arbitrary example.

Ratings never had a sell past date because they were flawed from the beginning

Comments > Ratings . Anyone can click a button. Takes a mind to give constructive feedback/compliments

I think this should be encouraged more.. Looks great! is nice and all but doesn't really do anyone any good.

For awhile I tried rating anything I downloaded but that is sometimes hard to do since you don't really want to rate it if you haven't tried it and I'm sure I still have skins that I downloaded months ago because they looked good in the posted shot of them but that I haven't yet had a reason/the time to use that particular skin.

Also it became an issue of so many times that I tried to rate something and got the "you need to be a member to rate" message even though I am a member that now I've gotten used to being unable to rate and therefore don't always remember to check and see if I'm able to on every skin I download.

I think that would have to be decided on a quality basis also

And who is to say the mods ratings for wallpapers is fare, if you mod one you need to mod all... or non at all

ROFLMAO........

Zu, did you break the emotes again?     

Or money, which brings the other...lol!!

Everything will, won't it?

And just what are you saying??????   

Yea right.......

I wasn't referring to you. Don't get your thong in a bunch.

And I'm not saying it's the uploaders fault. It's a severe lack of anyone else uploading to those galleries that is the problem.