The way I see it is:

One Star: Poor graphics and difficult to use.

Two Stars: Average graphics, but usable. Good skins, but can be improved upon.

Three Stars: Good graphics, easy to use. Most top quality skins will have this rating.

Four Stars: Excellent graphics, easy to use. The best quality you can get. Major releases only.

Five Stars: Major new release which is unique enough to influence the skinning world. Five stars rarely given.

Of course, that's only my opinion. Each of you will have your own way of determining a rating...

Way to go Fuzzy.

Well, after going and trying out the new star rating system, it's a little clearer what it means that the system we now have because it plainly says it when you mouse over the stars:
1 star: I hate it
2 stars: I don't like it
3 stars: It's ok
4 stars: I like it
5 stars: I love it

Note that the above differs greatly from the current system in that a 1 star or a 5 stars shouldn't be so rare as a 1 or a 10 given now.  Basically now, I've always considered a 1 as "you can't get any worse than this" and a 10 "nothing can top this". While "I hate this skin" or "I love this skin" wouldn't be so rare.

So the whole star system is pointless...I see...

All stars have points, five at least!

So the wieghted system is in place.
Is the system documented anywhere publically yet?
Just curious to see how the "wieghted" part works.
Thanks

#51 by JourneyMan gef - 10/2/2004 10:37:05 AM All stars have points, five at least!

good point!

er...

1 star = I just got up and found out I have to go out to get coffee
2 star = I just got up and have to wait for coffee to make
3 star = I just got up and can smell coffee making
4 star = I just got up and had my first few sips of coffee
5 star = YEEEEHAAAA, had a cup of that goooood  strong jave and I'm ready to roll....

Is a four pointed star called a square?
(and with that, Jafo ends this thread. I'm guessing.)

@ GM....

Sheesh... Why on earth isn't a "GameSpot-like" rating system in place here on WC? Let a user rate a skin based on at least 5 different categories, and then let them give the skin (author) a "tilt" (personal overall) rating. Then calculate the actual rating from that and add it to the skin's overall rating. Then the rating system would make sense and be helpful and useful! That way, everybody wins. Please, please, could this please be implemented?

Good idea, CaveBear. That also might eliminate the guy who goes down the list giving everyone a 10 or a 1, because it actually will take more than one second to rate someone's work. I like it.

Ok, well, I don't care for the stars at all...it's just another way of getting a bad rating but still NOT knowing what you need to work on...
When I get a low rating, I would really like to know why...WHAT is it specifically, that I need to work on for my next skin.


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My edit dissapeard?
My I double post??
And I want to add, that....I won't say the skin name...but anyway, I saw a skis & made a comment ob how great it was...then downloaded and tried it...went back and gave it a high rating...I combined what I thought when I saw it, with the features, with the orgionality, and with what I thought about it from a user's point....functionability...
The rating was high even though, for ME, the functionability was rather low...everything else about it was high...
I then went back and made another comment to explain what made the skin hard for me to use...I think that's the "key" to ratings...learning what needs to be fixed...understanding that you can't please all the people all the time...but a skin shouldn't get a low rating because it blue...or even a high rating because it blue.

The thing is that some people will rate and never comment...OR even worse people will say something like "It's really bad"...ok, nice to know...but WHY is is bad...There was a WB, that's now been deleted...several "It's ugly, or bad...etc..." But very few "WHYS"

If there was a rating system like I suggested...and I'm sure others have too...then a person doesn't necessarily have to comment for the author to know what to work on.