Rating Trolling
Friday, July 11, 2014 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I was made aware today (again) of someone rating trolling as I call it. This is where someone is purposely giving a skin a "1" rating to bring down the ratings. We (the moderators and admins) have been doing this long enough to know what a fair and reasonable rating is, and even giving leeway to that it's easy to see where someone is just doing to harm a skin rating.
The surprising part is this is done by people who have been here for years and are ranking members of the site.
Ratings have always been a touchy subject, but there comes a point where the actions of one member to clearly harm another members skin is something we won't tolerate. As an example, we deleted over 30 "1" ratings made by one person on competing skins in the same category.
From here on I will demote any member regardless of their current ranking who is doing this in a clearly malicious manner.
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Reply #142 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:19 PM
Just to clarify....it is the source that makes a skin a 'Master skin', not the other way round...
Reply #143 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:30 PM
Wonder what would happen if master skinners put a skin on sale for $.99 like a song on itunes every once in a while? Bet there would be a jump in sales. If this were done on a daily basis randomly in a window on Wincustomize, it might increase interest.
Why do you keep on constantly talking about this 99 cent Master Skin crap? Just so you know, there is a minimum sale price established at WinCustomize and they will not allow a 99 cent skin, not even a $1.99 skin, or even a $2.99 skin. Please stop constantly complaining, because to tell you the truth, nobody really cares what you think.
Reply #144 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:51 PM
PixelPunk... Here.. have some more cheese with your whine...
Here's the news.. No one cares about the nonsensical rantings of a petulant whiney boy. 
You should pick up a brush, make a few skins, or even ONE.. and see how much work goes into them, compared to the payoff.
Then you should start your own customization company and attempt to keep it profitable year after year after year.
But you wont.. because people like u, that do nothing other than to try tear down others because their own lives are so miserable and their ego so tiny... never amount to anything.
Why a momma's basement keyboard warrior is continually allowed to spout this repetitive garbage on this site is beyond me.
Where's Brad?? 
Reply #145 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 2:16 AM
PixelPunk - how about you get off your lazy, entitled arse and contribute instead of whinging.
You know why the page is full of master skins? Because people who release free skins, like me, don't upload anymore. Where's the reward in spending days or weeks on something only to have some ungrateful bitch whinging about it. So, I keep it to myself and skin for myself
Reply #146 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:37 AM
Wonder what would happen if master skinners put a skin on sale for $.99 like a song on itunes every once in a while? Bet there would be a jump in sales. If this were done on a daily basis randomly in a window on Wincustomize, it might increase interest.
i think you're overestimating the demand for payskins. there are just very few people willing to spend money for a skin, no matter wether it's $1 or $20.
Reply #147 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:44 AM
Still going with this? There's no use in coming back to a thread with the same comments over and over.
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Reply #141 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:06 PM
I did not know that the ratings on the master skins were only from paid users. That helps me judge the the results so much better. I just put my mouse over the ratings under a skin and see the star light up, so I assume that if I were to click it it would rate the product. And I don't think that is fair from someone who hasn't really tested the product
Broken record... yeah. Not the only one who feels that way though. Someone contacted me about their collection of paid ones here on the forums, but I don't think that is right either.
There are just too many jumping on the bandwagon to be master skinners. Most master skins now are simply average skins There are only a small handful of skins that truly deserve to be called masters. Not everyone who is a master skinner should be putting all their skins for sale. Why not simply make a market so everyone can sell their skins in one place, and separate the two types. Maybe only skins that have 10 stars should even be considered as master.
Back when there was like one master skin for every 2-3 pages of skins, I bought one some years ago. Now sometimes we are lucky if there 3 non master skins on some pages. I am still waiting for that next skin that I will buy. One skinner is very close... her skins are just a tad too large for me. Her prices are extreme though and so it makes it even harder to consider.
Wonder what would happen if master skinners put a skin on sale for $.99 like a song on itunes every once in a while? Bet there would be a jump in sales. If this were done on a daily basis randomly in a window on Wincustomize, it might increase interest.