Skinner reward proposal #2
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Okay, how about this concept for rewarding skinners:
WinCustomize starts running regular contests in which the top 10 skins in terms of downloads by users who are also subscribers get a percentage of the revenue we receive from new subscriptions. It would be done for only certain sections so that we could highlight a given section for that period (and we could even have multiple sections featured in a given time).
So at the end of the 3 months, we would tally the # of downloads that were done by subsribers (best way to avoid download stuffing since it's hard to "stuff the ballot" that way).
So the top skin would get something like $200. Second place $150, third $100. Fourth $50. Fifth $25. Sixth through 10th $20. This would depend on the # of subscribers of course but it would be in this ballpark.
A given skin author could make the top 5 skins though and collect it all. So it would favor quality skins and quantity.
So let's say we started the first one in January and focused it on WindowBlinds and Iconpackager. The following one might focus on DesktopX and CursorXP. And so forth.
What do you guys think?
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Reply #62 Monday, October 18, 2004 1:54 AM
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Shucks, it was going to be a very different skin too. Since it was part Luna, I didn't have to skin half of it. Since it was part Aero, nothing had to be really visible. And since it was part Longhorn, I didn't have to worry about the bugs. Because, it was bound to have them. I already had it half finished too. Oh well..hmm maybe thats not too different from most of the stuff here.
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Reply #63 Monday, October 18, 2004 3:45 AM
Sounds incredible Brad...good idea's happening there. This is gonna be awesome....I've got 2 WB's almost ready to go. (read: nowhere even close, but I'll get them done ASAP anyways
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Reply #64 Monday, October 18, 2004 10:04 AM
Maybe a booby-prize - a year's subscription to Farmer's Weekly or something..
(of couse, no-one would ever use it...)
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Reply #61 Monday, October 18, 2004 1:49 AM
Now, I have to work on my second choice skin.