Hiding artists names on WinCustomize.com
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 by ZubaZ | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
The other day, reading a thread about ratings and what-not, I wished I didn't know who an artist was for a skin . .so my opinion wouldn't be colored by that.
I asked kryo to help me out and have a greasemonkey script that does exactly that.
It hide the author's name on WinCustomize (or most of it). The author link is still there if you want to know . . or you can turn off the script.
It was for personal use . . but someone else may find it useful too.
Install greasemonkey for Firefox or tampermonky for Chrome. IE users are on their own.
Create a text file with the below code.
- // ==UserScript==
- // @name Hide skin author names
- // @namespace https://forums.stardock.com
- // @include https://www.wincustomize.com/*
- // @include http://www.guichamps.com/*
- // @version 1
- // @grant none
- // ==/UserScript==
- var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
- function addCSS(css) {
- var style = document.createElement('style');
- style.type = 'text/css';
- style.innerHTML = css;
- head.appendChild(style);
- }
- addCSS("table.skinprofile tbody tr td h3 a { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("div.explore_listing div.info_pane h2 a { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("div.body h5 a { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("div.info h5 a:nth-child(1) { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("div.info h5 { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("table.skinpreview tbody tr td h2:nth-child(3) a { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
- addCSS("div.meta p a { opacity:0.0 !important; }");
Save it as [filename].user.js
Add the script and reload the page. The script runs at the end . . so if you look right away, you may see author's names. Don't peek unless you want to peek . . . and then ask yourself why you installed the script.
If you see an author's name somewhere on the page . . edit the script to hide it. (I might be able to help if you post the url and screenshot here.
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:45 PM
PS.: Now that you guy's got extra time to code 'valuable things' like this, how about fixing up the site as well? 
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:46 PM
Hey... while you're writing code, how about fixing the tools?
*ok. I definitely took a crazy pill. I just asked Zubaz to write code.
Reply #6 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:19 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:56 PM
Hands up all those who can see an issue with the world's 'greatest' speller writing code....
....and he said he had trouble getting it to work.
Can't imagine why...
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:04 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:04 PM
I only misspell halh the time...the other half I mis-type. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:43 PM
Here's another and more effective solution:
Everyone who let their rating be tainted by who the artist is should be lined up and shot.
Might not be as popular, and it would be a damn long line - but it'd work.