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Sometimes on a slow day here on the WC forums, I find myself flipping through the pages of my replies and posts (doesn't take that long as I only been here just over a year).

Today I dug back even further, to threads that were started long before I even knew what skinning was!

One thread caught my eye. This is posted June 14, 2001, where a member suggested supporting WC financially. Here's a quote from the Frog's mouth:

"Personally speaking, I would not be in favor of WinCustomize having any sort of subscription at this point. As long as there are other skin sites available like DeviantArt, there just isn't enough pressure on WinCustomize to justify anything like that.

The best route (I think) is to have T-shirts, CDs, and other optional goodies that users
can purchase that help support the site and the user gets something useful. Heck, if we ever had a hard drive crash and didn't have backups, maybe someone could loan us their WinCustomize CD! (just kidding)" WWW Link

Times change huh


Anyone got a favorite thread?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have several...

https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=45230#1367468 WWW Link
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Guess you and I are the only ones bored enough, Cynder-Elluh
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Love it BoXXi! We could do with some fun today
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Aarrgghh, me buckos, p'raps us'll trawl this un up frum Davy Jonses' Locker. WWW Link
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Aarrgghh, me buckos, p'raps us'll trawl this un up frum Davy Jonses' Locker. WWW Link
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Ouch, he's gonna get all pissy again.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, Sir Starkers, That took a while to read but it was very entertaining.  
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ouch, he's gonna get all pissy again.
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Nah, I gived up tha rum long ago...now it be tha curried cabbage ye 'aves ta wurry about!

Wow, Sir Starkers, That took a while to read but it was very entertaining.
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Yeah, it were a dirty job, but somebody 'ad ta do it.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Times change huh
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To be fair....traffic has changed by a few orders of magnitude since then....

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To be fair....traffic has changed by a few orders of magnitude since then...
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I didn't mean any disrespect, J. I just thought it was interesting
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, it is getting to be that time of year again...

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank You Po' and Starkers. I thought this post was gonna fade away like a couple other posts of mine that no one cared about!

Boring Post 1
Boring Post 2
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought this post was gonna fade away
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...Not Fade Away...!
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You people love making forum moderation a challenge don't you? 

My personal favorite remains the JoeUser is Joke User thread that was previously linked in the thread.  If you read near the beginning you can actually see some posts from me on the issue several months before I was hired by Stardock.  When I could really go at it with other users.... ahh I miss those days 

To the original thread about subscriptions, I'll bet in a few years time people will be linking back to threads bemoaning the Master Skins program, saying how no one should have to pay for a good skin (a recurring argument from the very first days of skinning), made all the more funny as by then I'd expect MyColors to have pushed the idea of branded purchased skins into the mainstream consciousness of computer users.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You people love making forum moderation a challenge don't you?
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Uyup! 'tis why I'm here
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank You Po' and Starkers. I thought this post was gonna fade away like a couple other posts of mine that no one cared about!
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You're welcome...can not have you fade away 2of3, can we now!

Oh, and BTW, when you finally get that promotion, will you be known as 3of4 or will you just get a + sign added? Just curious!

To the original thread about subscriptions, I'll bet in a few years time people will be linking back to threads bemoaning the Master Skins program,
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and saying stuff like: "Can you imagine it, having to use one of those mouse thingies to change your WindowBlinds and icons, etc ....so glad Stardock Technology came up with this 'thinkover' instead of going with mouseovers or that old hat 'Voice Recognition' idea that Microsoft lot came up with for...um, what was it called now....that's right, Vista."

"Yeah, I know what you mean...wonder whatever happened to that Microsoft mob and Vista, tho I don't suppose it matters anymore, not now we got Stardock's offing of Ubuntu Virulent Vixen. It sure beats the hell out of Apple/Mac's OS-X Pathetic Panther, dontcha think, what with only .00005% of the market!"

"Sure does, now be quiet while I put on my SkinStudio 21 skull-cap and think up a new Windowblind to commemorate Frogboy's acquisition of NASA and the 50th anniversary of life here on Earth 2."

Far fetched? Maybe not!

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You're welcome...can not have you fade away 2of3, can we now!
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You actually reply to most of my threads...... hmmm are you stalking me?
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
will you be known as 3of4 or will you just get a + sign added? Just curious!
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If I get a promotion I'll be 2of3.1 Enhanced

Right now I'm in beta testing
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If I get a promotion I'll be 2of3.1 Enhanced
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Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
2of3.1 Enhanced
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does that come with easier-to-use interface devices?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks like I've done my job here. We have resurrected several threads.... keep it up
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You actually reply to most of my threads...... hmmm are you stalking me?
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No, not stalking you...but there are others in the Collective who want an eye kept open for any unusual 'individual' characteristics'

If I get a promotion I'll be 2of3.1 Enhanced

Right now I'm in beta testing
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Seems like an awful slow climb up the pecking order....just .1 isn't much of a leap, is it! Think I'd be eliminating a few 3of4's and 4of5's to climb the ladder to success more quickly, if I were you.

Looks like I've done my job here.
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Now don't go resting on your laurels here....the Collective's work is never done!
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's my daily resurrection: WWW Link



Any update?
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's my daily resurrection:
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I used to get daily resurrections...er, sorry...I'm completely on the wrong wavelength again!





Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to get daily resurrections...er, sorry...I'm completely on the wrong wavelength again!
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Is dat your cutlass or ere ye jus' happy t' see the missus?