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A formal complaint against WinCustomize.

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A formal complaint against WinCustomize.

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The recent rating scandal surrounding my skin "BrassLine" prompted me to conduct a test. I noticed that the download totals seemed to sit a certain number (50) for a dispropotionate length of time. So, I therefore contacted 15 of my personal friends and asked them to visit WinCustomize and download the "BrassLine" skin at a predetermined time. 10 minutes after that predetermined time my friends had all sent emails indicating they had downloaded the skin. I went to WinCustomize to read my download totals. It still read 50.

I then conducted the test on one of my other skins, "Spander"
The result of that test was that the download total for spander rose by 15.

I am assuming this is a technical glitch, since I have repeatedly been told that this sort of thing would never be done on purpose by the good people at WinCustomize.

Please look into this technical problem.

Thank you.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Paxx,

I was fairly sure that the idea had been brought up before, since we have rehashed this so many times in the past. If I remember correctly it was one of the very first heated debates that was had on this message board. It almost seems to be on a set schedule to rear it's ugly head about once every six months. I rate skins that I like and I will admit that I have never been one to rate a skin very low in 99 percent of the cases because I can see the effort that goes into the worst of skins. In the end these threads will fall off the end and we will be back here again in a few months. I hope that this ends in soon like all the rest. It being the season of giving, I think that the discomfort and ugly emotions that this entire argument produces is counter productive at best.

Chris

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's not about rating's its about art and expression. Never forget that. Van Gough and many others died unknown and broke. It was'nt till recently that I emailed Treetog to tell how much I love his skins, (when I use skins.)
Create to create and nothing more. If you have passion thats where its truly at.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My Momma always said, "Life is like a Passion Fruit", what she meant by this I don't know....

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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...."

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Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LISTEN to paxx!
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh if only it was once every six months....I wish....
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you all read the original post you will see, that although there is a reference to a problem I had with ratings the real point of the post was to bring attention to a possible technical problem with the counting of download totals.

Somehow, it became another "Ratings, love 'em, hate 'em, live with 'em" post.

I have learned to live with them. In fact I welcome them now. All that I ask, is when I receive a low rating that the person who gave me the rating have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and list the problems with the skin that made it warrant a low rating. That is all.