Rating skins
A screenshot is NOT the skin
Friday, February 4, 2005 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
It beggars the question how someone thinks they can rate a Litestep theme, or a Dx theme ....or any equivalent 'complex' skin....WB, WA, WMP, etc when all they are likely to know of it is the screenshot....as they do not DL and run the work, or even have not ever used the program.
A screenshot is one happy snap of [as example, an LS theme...perhaps 1600 lines of hand-written code and hundreds of images taking weeks to create] ....yet some twit will go 'der...look at dat piccie...ho-hum' and consign the work to the depths of obscurity for no valid reason than their own ignorance.
Rate the skin/theme...not its 'pretty picture'.
If you are not genuinely knowledgable about a particular skinning 'field', take the initiative to opt-out of judging it at all.
You will only do the skinners and their work a gross injustice...[and raise people's ire]...
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Reply #82 Monday, February 7, 2005 3:17 PM
Reply #83 Monday, February 7, 2005 3:50 PM
| Thats all I'm going to say about it ,it was my opinion and it doesn't really matter (my opinion I'm a newbie.) |
There is no reason for either of us to be quiet because we both happen to be thinking people with different opinions. Would it have been better for me to maintain silence because I'm not exactly a newbie?
There really is more than one side to the picture and I think both are valid enough to mention.
Reply #84 Monday, February 7, 2005 7:22 PM
And if you don't believe the ratings check the number of downloads. It will certainly bring up the best skins.
Reply #85 Monday, February 7, 2005 9:02 PM
Citizen sssnake ....actually, they do...along with 'promotion' through input/experience...eg to Apprentice, Journeyman, etc....comes a multiplicity factor that means that when an experienced 'Journeyman' for example rates a work a '7', say, it's the equivalent of 4 people [from memory] rating it a '7' each...which helps balance the comparatively un-informed '2' that may have been placed by someone new to skinning.
This is certainly a fair way to do it....just as long as those with more rating 'powers' are responsible and mature enough not to abuse their privilege...
Reply #86 Monday, February 7, 2005 9:05 PM
| Maybe the ratings of more experienced skinners should affect the ratings more |
There was talk of something like this at the old site where the higher access level, the greater the impact your rating would have on a skin, but I don't know if it was ever implemented or if it will be.
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Reply #81 Monday, February 7, 2005 1:16 PM