Quoting doortech1,

reply 101

Probably looks even more weird with my old avatar still there.

Man you have had to much time off from work. I think the extra hours are playing tricks with your brain. ( yes i'm using the word brain very loose) Rating trolling. Not for you as they don;'t have a minus number. 

My suggestions as a regular user/member: Please try to find out why some of us can download and post in the forums but cannot properly rate and/or comment on files. The bigger the pool of potential raters and commenters, the less power a troll would have. Consider not allowing people to rate installable skins (windowblinds, etc) unless they have actually installed them. For example, if I wish to rate a dream maybe I should have to do so from within deskscapes. That wouldn't help with some categories like wallpapers, but it might prevent someone from downrating every dream and blind someone has ever made very quickly. Do allow people to comment on files they have neither downloaded nor installed, because there are cases in which a member might really love a particular skin but perhaps the skin isn't available in the resolution or OS version they need. "Looks fantastic but I can't use it because..." is a valid comment, even if the commenter cannot test the file. Downrating a file you cannot use, however, should not be allowed unless the author claimed it works in a configuration it doesn't work in; authors cannot be expected to be able to create and test in all configurations. That is another reason why I suggest that installable files must be installed before a user can rate.

I don't agree with you ID. I've rated skins a 1 when it was obvious that the skin author had a 5 star rating becase they'd gotten their friends to upvote it.

This crap is all over the place anymore. 

There are skins from well known and popular artists ( as uploaded themes and previews in the forums ) where there is nothing but praises, attaboy/girl, wow!!!, etc, etc comments and ratings that.... well, lets just say that back in the day when people actually paid attention to detail and put out unique and high quality themes that would not have cut the mustard.

So much anymore, if you even try to give suggestions and helpful opinions, you are beat down and chastised by the author and others for not being 100% supportive. Seems to be a trend in life in general. No one wants to have any accountability and thinks they are entitled by the amount of friends (online friends only at that ) that they have. It is completely disgusting and not just confined to WC.

So.. get accustomed to it people. The age of the wussy is upon us !

Yup.. because they just are not willing to accept ANY and I do mean ANY feedback that is nothing less than the equivalent of a thorough and pleasurable butt kissing.

It is not very long as I am among you, at the beginning I thought WC gave an assessment of our creation!
Shortly after I got demender, on what basis we judge our work after you have downloaded all skin 5 Stars!
No need to tell you the disappointment that I had to find that the star does spineless to say anything!
Over time I have come to accept that nothing is perfect and you have to live with!
If I stay here the reason is simple, WC is the best.

This corrupt ratings system and the personal issues that come into play when approving and rating skins, for those who have ruffled feathers is gotten way old. My just submitted skins deserved better than a three star rating. If they had been made by your favorite friends, ratings would have been better.This is unfair and I have had enough beat down by wc mods, or skin approver's , or whatever you call them, to last a life time, this is really unfair and I am through contributing to this site as I see no change in how the controllers of the site let things re-occur.

What a sad waste of two years of my life.

Brian, you can rest assured that there is nothing personal in the way the mods initially approve/disapprove skins.

Friends rating high on friends skins is going to happen at any site that has a rating system. The opposite as well, but it appears that WC is trying to deal with that.

The only way to really govern that (IMHO) would be to remove the "user" end of the rating system and only have mods rate. To stop ratings altogether would likely end in a flooding of sub par quality work being uploaded, and thusly ending the long standing quality standards here at WC. That would not do.

You really should hang here with your friends. We would hate to see you go elsewhere.

Has succeeded, is succeeding and will succeed.

The Gallery Mods are as objective as possible. Jafo and I.D. watch that, and Mod as well.

You've no reason to think they're "beating you down", dt1.

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.

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