I don't believe that any skin gets a higher rating than 3 stars. Any skin I upload gets automatically 3 stars and it's up to users to rate it up or down. The only exception would be masterskins which if memory serves get an auto 5 stars.

Gee wiz how old are you anyway........

or how some of us see these as 3 stars being 6 and 5 stars being 10, since the star ratings have half star increments. I can see how I was confused by the DT comments if he's saying 3 stars. I had to look at his gallery and only saw one low rating for a wall way back when, which got me more confused.

Myself, I have no issue starting out with 6 (3) stars. If they go up, great and if they go down, bummer.

Although when I re-uploaded some deleted blinds they came back in with 5 (2 1/2) stars instead of the usual 6 (3) that they originally came in with. Must have lost a 1/2 star for the mods having to look at them twice, who knows.

Although I think it's not a good  thing to leave on a down note but if you got to go, then see ya.

neither a co-dependent nor enabler be, my Uncle Bob used to say.

Exactly.

I've had a close look at your skins and my honest opinion as a skinner is that 3 stars is being generous.

Sorry, I'm not known for my subtlety

as one or two star rated skins don't seem to exist, three stars means crap and four means mediocre.

They do exist on the users personal pages.

has there been a single Windowblinds skin buried in the personal pages in recent years? 

Jafo

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It's why I have no friends....

You too eh?   Weird......hehe

Of course but I wouldn't call it 'pleasurable' unless the subject had an especially aesthetically pleasing backside! 

<monk quickly slinks back into his corner and hopes he gets away with a bit of thread/post 'trolling'>

Yep, but I cannot remember which or by who they were made.

thanks for the answer. this seems to be very rare though, i'd guess the forum would be full of complaints if this would happen regularly.

i still think the scale goes from 3 to 5.

Now that the hub-bub has died down some, I would like to agree with these statements to a degree. I just downloaded a skin that I rated pretty high only to find out the UIS2 frames, tool windows and button highlights/shadows were not skinned. While the skin is pretty it's unusable for the applications that I use.

That's why it's necessary...depending on the skinnable's complexity...to actually test it.  Top of that list has always been Shell enhancements/replacements [including Windowblinds].  Bottom of that list is actually Wallpapers....as they do nothing other than 'sit there looking pretty'.

Any compound skin...with functions/animations/different states of interaction...ie a GUI can only be correctly evaluated by use.

It is why Wallpapers are only an addendum to skinning, and not skinning per se ...

 I admit i did already rated a skin without downloading it, by simply judging them by the screenshot, many skinners already include active unactive frames they display the startmenu show mouseover effects and such in it and sometimes they even show the calculator and notification the only thing i would miss out would be the please wait animation or startmenu animation frame animation and sounds) but normaly if a skin is animated i download it, but if there is no animation there only can be functionality issues but if nobody complained about problems at stagering 1200+ download things should be ok.

A lot of people say ...oh what a great looking skin.  I give it    Most are looking at the preview and once that starts most just join the crowd.  Damn few ever say if they found something wrong, they will PM the person so he can fix it, that way they don't put a blemish on the skin and piss the maker off.  Egos are big.

Must say, I may complain a LOT about the Master Skinner's pricing their products beyond $.99 , I don't mess with ratings.  I may have only rated a skin once or twice but it was only because I liked it.  Master Skinners can only judge their ratings from a buyer who thinks the product is worth the buy already.  So those ratings are in essence paid ratings.  Not really fair to judge those against any but other Master skins.  It's a shame when the majority of the skins of a given product are flooded with  large price tags.  Kind of cheapens the Stardock product value.

No, it doesn't. But really, we know your views on pricing, leave the poor horse alone.

Wow - I read through the thread because I thought it was new. Just more of the same old b.s. about skin ratings. I do agree with demoting and/or banning anyone who is obviously abusing the system. I usually don't rate anything that I have not downloaded, and have bit my tongue a few times to just not say anything (i.e. if you can't say something nice.....).

only because you never listen, absorb and comprehend the explanations given to you as to why your idea does not translate to windowblind sales....

you are like a broken record on a loop....

No, they're not paid ratings... they are ratings from people who have paid... there's a dif...