Artist appreciation
Thursday, January 1, 2004 by Istari | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
For kicks I thought it might be fun to see how much different sites appreciate the artists who make stuff in the form of comments on a skin.
So I went to the WindowBlinds sections here, the visual style section on dA, and the vs section on ThemeXP.
Here's what I found by averaging 10 randomly selected, reasonably new skins in terms of Downloads per comment given:
WinCustomize: 107 downloads per comment (low: 63, high:151)
DeviantArt: 143 downloads per comment (low: 67, high:237)
ThemeXP: 16,538 "downloads" per comment (low 488, high:74,269)
WinCustomize and DeviantArt are basically the same. ThemeXP's numbers are so out of wack that either the people who download stuff either take the skinners incredibly for granted or the download counts are totally out of whack.
I think the download stats are more out of whack. I saw the same skin on themexp have 100X as many "downloads" as it does on DeviantArt yet have fewer comments. That doesn't make sense.
What is clear is that DeviantArt and WinCustomize users should be proud. Someone has the courtesy to send a comment, usually a positive one, to the author evern 100 or so downloads.
So I went to the WindowBlinds sections here, the visual style section on dA, and the vs section on ThemeXP.
Here's what I found by averaging 10 randomly selected, reasonably new skins in terms of Downloads per comment given:
WinCustomize: 107 downloads per comment (low: 63, high:151)
DeviantArt: 143 downloads per comment (low: 67, high:237)
ThemeXP: 16,538 "downloads" per comment (low 488, high:74,269)
WinCustomize and DeviantArt are basically the same. ThemeXP's numbers are so out of wack that either the people who download stuff either take the skinners incredibly for granted or the download counts are totally out of whack.
I think the download stats are more out of whack. I saw the same skin on themexp have 100X as many "downloads" as it does on DeviantArt yet have fewer comments. That doesn't make sense.
What is clear is that DeviantArt and WinCustomize users should be proud. Someone has the courtesy to send a comment, usually a positive one, to the author evern 100 or so downloads.
BoXXi
Reply #2 Thursday, January 1, 2004 2:09 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, January 1, 2004 2:09 AM
Hmmm I cant be bothered to work out the percentages, (just had a hard night at work!) but I have:
312 items uploaded
1,267,566 downloads
1957 comments
I think that is pretty good really, and just shows what a great community WinCustomize has.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #4 Thursday, January 1, 2004 12:02 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, January 1, 2004 12:02 PM
Yup, he's been missing over a year 
https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=57553
https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=57553
WOM
Reply #5 Thursday, January 1, 2004 12:09 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, January 1, 2004 12:09 PM
He got upset with stardock help and didn't come back. I missed him and his stats also. 
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Reply #1 Thursday, January 1, 2004 1:59 AM
I agree that the appreciation here is very good for artists. Sometimes a few bad pickels in the barrel rear their ugly face and spit out nasties, but those are usually dealt with swiftly.
Sometimes comments don't show appretiation though. Legitimate comments on my xsticky object because it didn't work right don't necessarily show appreciation, but it does show that they really wanted it to work right, which gave me a warm feeling inside. Its too bad that I still haven't figured out why it doesn't work right for everybody.