"There's so much JUNK! How do I find good stuff???"
Thursday, March 25, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
We often hear someone say "There's too much junk in the library!" We have a rating system on skins but what if you want to find the cream of the crop? Well, you would still need to look through the library to see what the best skins are.
..But another way would be to look at the skins that the admins picked as their favorites...
You can now, in a given library, sort by featured. This lets you look at just things the admins have played around with and thought were good enough to feature. They are, effectively, the admins picks.
Reply #2 Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:54 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:05 AM
with my resolution (1400x1050) almost all of the "featured" Sysmetrix skins are too small!
It would be nice if you could sort "by resolution"!
Reply #4 Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:03 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:10 AM
It never will represent all that's good and great, but I don't think that's what's intended - as Lecrayon points out, tastes vary, and eventually people will look further and make their own judgements on the rest.
My only gripe is that my skin didn't make the grade
Reply #6 Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:32 AM
Reply #7 Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:35 AM
Reply #8 Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:46 AM
We don't claim any objectivity. Some of you should start your own sites I suspect and see how well you do. Featured skins is a good way for most people to weed through stuff.
I am finding the rating system increasingly useless because people rate blech crap 8's regularly. The upcoming WC4 design will have a new rating system in it that will be much better I suspect.
Reply #9 Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:48 PM
Reply #10 Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:39 PM
Oh, heh, in the mean time, why don't we dump some of the JUNK anyway? It'll save server space. Might as well get rid of them. If you don't want to do it, I'll more than happily do it for you. I don't care about the flame...
Reply #11 Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:39 PM
Chances are good if one skin caught someone's eye then it might also catch mine.
However I have an idea (that may be in the works I don't know) that could help elleviate some of the concerns expressed here. Concerns about some skins getting lost in the shuffle.
I think everyone should be able to have a favorite skins list in their profile. The list would not be able to contain their own skins. The purpose being if you like skins done by an artist, perhaps you will like skins that they like also.
Just a thought.
Reply #12 Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:56 PM
this is kinda like Intel finally saying to all the braindead walmart-pc users that GHZ dont equal performance...
So there IS too much JUNK??? But I thought...
Ok, what I'm getting at, is that if there's too much junk, don't complain! And last but not least:
IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE JUNK, RAISE MODERATION!
Reply #13 Friday, March 26, 2004 12:20 AM
I guess what I meant to say, is that if you don't like the junk, rasie the moderation level. That's the easiest way to solve the problem.
Reply #14 Friday, March 26, 2004 1:54 AM
I should have put the article title in quotes since that is what the feature was in response to.
I should clarify that I don't think most skins are "junk". But we hear over and over how most skins are "crap" or whatever. What they are really saying is that those skins are not their taste.
Reply #16 Friday, March 26, 2004 3:21 AM
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Reply #1 Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:09 AM