For people with questions on staff ratings

i think that is easier to understand if you see how it works and what we have to do to rank a submission:

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/3242/how3qm.png

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the system sucks.

In a perfect world, mods would only rank skins they've downloaded and used. But that's not realistic with the ammount of mods custo has, I guess.

Still the best skin site on the net. And the freindliest site to submit to. Love the way it's coded.

Glad you see that cthu1hu, others like to have a custo where flame wars pop up, and where they can poke fun of other members but we want to cater to the good people of the community. Thanks for understanding.

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I actually think the ranking system is quite decent. The average is better than how users rank, in my opinion.

It is what it is, really. Subs need to be assigned an order somehow and the easiest way to do this is give some guy a special box and let him enter his personal opinion.

i.c.

AnderSon

I have never had a problem with the ranking. :) Anyways it is the comments that actually mean more. Unless, there was to be a custo-contest. That is the only time the rankings would mean a tad bit more.

~angel

u.c.

Someone ranking a technical piece of work without trying it is a little insulting to the creator.

From some of the public's point of view.. YES from the admin's point of view.. NO. It's nothing personal, we do what we can based on the looks of an item, If the looks entice us then we may test it out further (if possible) to give a more detailed comment.

To go further I would say up to 80% of the ratings are based on someone looking at an item, case in point

http://www.customize.org/details/44194

It's a mere screenshot of of my new phone theme but who other than myself and others with a windows smartphone can test out my work? But they can still rate the quality of it based on looks.

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I wasn't really complaining. I do understand that only so much can realistically be done, and we can't ask for the world. That doesn't mean it's any more fair to the creator, but, at the same time, we can understand why things are done the way they are.

I have faith that the mods will take that in to consideration when they rank such platforms.

By "such platforms" I meant those platforms that often go beyond looks, and should have technical considerations.

And by "those platforms that often go beyond looks, and should have technical considerations" I mean Litestep. :D

All valid points.

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Why do we even have got this rank thing ?
Its like a competition ..

In order to have a searchable database.

Things need to be in an order of some kind, arranged. generally the better subs DO have better ranks. This makes it somewhat easier to sort by quality, if you want to sort by quality.

anyways, just hug me.

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/me hugs - DioS -

For all it's faults it's necessary evil.

Ranking is also a lot harder to do than you might think. Especially when you're staring at a big queue.

Arznek
Member again! wee!

don't really understand how someone can someone elses set up on usability since the guy thats ranking it isn't using it ...

as i said before i dont care much for rankings and never made a deal out of not getting a high rank ,i do frown my eyebrows sommetimes at stuff that gets a 90+ ranking and i'm sure i'm not the only one

Holy crap! That's a big message! And I thought a 30K image was nuts!

go and try to use everything it's submited

i cant:

*try unix/fluxbox blah blah
*litestep, every and each icons, cursors or lot's of apps that exists.

I doubt that any mortal could. This is how it works, maybe it changes with the long-waited evo, but till that we must suck it up... and i say we, because i got shitty ranks too lots of time and i was upset too. And yes, the comments are the best indicator (http://www.customize.org/polls/573), but we must rank the submissions otherwise the people wich visit custo won't see em (in case of wallpapers) in the frontpage.

What if you have a rank below 65? There are almost 6000 screenshots and 65 in rank means that you are between the first 1500... but hey! You are not a NUMBER.


/me hugs everybody


now have a nice day :)



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pardon me.

EVO is a joke. Its never going to happen.

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frosted flakes for the win

Hmm is there anway that u can download these themes onto a windows xp home edition?

You'll be eating your words FF and I can't wait for that moment, a long time coming.

Evil.Unit: StyleXP ( http://www.tgtsoft.com/ )

Thank you. This clears up a lot of questions.

?lamron si tahW

and why is that spr33?

I shouldn't say EVO is never going to happen, but its something that was suppose over a year ago or more and I don't expect it anytime in the next year either.

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I downloaded a skin for my yahoo messenger, & I can't seem to get it to apply to my messenger. Anyone think they could help me w/ that ty

die.

nicole24: you sound kinky, asl?

nvm, saw your myspace.i don't like herpes. thx newayz.

haha

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ahahah, owned. oh yeah, and evo? never gonna happen.

well i think we all have hope that it will happen .. and im sure it will .. but dont get your hopes up for it to come soon ..

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I would not bet the grocery money on EVO appearing.

If it does, wonderful, but I will be very, very suprised.

But I guess spr33 knows a lot more about it than FF or I, who between us have about 6 years of being admins here. So never mind us.

Spr33 knows all. He also threatens to hack people on the interweb. Its serious business you know.

c72 thats right, about making searchable database easier ..
but i can easily find the coolest screenshot with admin rank 40 and user rank 90 .. and when i search, it searches for the admin ranks..
and honestly.. when i see the screenshots ranked 100 by admins, they suck .

yeah, syretrip, but I dont know if you've noticed the date on some of those posts with rankings that high? as time progressed the bar keeps getting set higher and higher by innovative artists, but at that time, those were cool and therefore got higher ratings. based on the way custo rankings go, we'd be having ranks in the 200s by now if we continued at that pace. its all about the fresh ideas

the 100's cant go down

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*Hugs Dios* :)

Yeah, I know. Late.

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hey geuss what guys... the reason you get low rankings is because you suck left testicles at making CustOMiZe.OrG SkinZ. jeez. fagz.