The star rating is less than useless as far as i am concerned. Some people who upload have fanclubs who will rate their work up just because they like the person and the ratings have nothing to do with the quality of the work. While i can understand this type of behaviour it really does nothing to encourage those people to grow and get better. My advice is to upload and share for yourself and if people like it they will download it. As long as your happy with your work thats all that really matters.

Hey Frankief; this rating drop may be a result of someone frustrated about the broken link.

As for the great downloads, since the link is broken there are actually no downloads and every time anyone clicks download and gets the error message it is still getting counted. Four of the download count is from me, if download was working I could download many times but it would only show as one unique download and the rest would show under total downloads overall on the expanded downloads stats page (click on download count to see this). Unique count is the count that shows on the skins page and your stats page.

I appreciate everyones advice very much! I guess I'd better get less niave about how people are and stop thinking everyone is nice. I take everything to heart, and I need to stop doing that! Anyway, you guys are really special and I thank you for the advice.

Well, thanks to Hankers the broken links have been fixed, apparently it was the # in the file name causing a corrupted zip file. If I accused someone falsely, I apologize, but I have seen this happen repeatedly in the past where the rating changes drastically in a short period of time and was always able to counter this with the download number. I suppose the numbers will be skewed due to the bad zip file.

Jazzi Dear, this is real life and unfortunately everyone is not nice but I would hope the percentage of nice is higher than the percentage of naughty. You gotta get tough and don't wear your heart on your sleeve! I am a big one to talk! I cry if you look at me crooked!

Thanks Frankie, I've gotten a lot better than I used to be though! Sort of reminds me of when I made a right turn to come home, had my blinkers on and everything. The guy in back of me flipped me off, for absolutely no reason! I'm still crushed over that one! What a crazy world!

Ladies....you both are superb artists.You both rate 'Tops' in my book (if that counts for anything).

Have you ever considered that those 'ratings' (especially the low ones) are given by people with no talent to create original works? They might just be rating works which are beautiful out of spite.

jazzilady, you live in less than a perfect world....with angry people. Let it go...and move on.

Ratings, download count, Who cares?

Just because something has a high download count does not mean everyone who downloaded it is going to use it or even like it.

As for the ratings, they could go away as far as I am concerned. To many people get all upset over nothing but how many stars there work has.

To me the only thing that should matter to the artist is how they feel about there own work, not what everybody else thinks.If people think it is good they will comment on how good it is and not by how many stars it is worth.

If and when I upload something and it only gets a half a star or just a couple downloads, I could care less as long as I am happy with the work I had done!

Thanks Doc! You are a sweetheart. It counts for a lot in my little book!

Yes, you're very right DrJBHL, I never thought of it that way. I guess I've always cared too much what others think of me and it shouldn't matter at all. Ok! Darn it anyway! I'm lettin it go now. Heiger, you're right too, and Frankie, we're that good, aren't we?

YES, you are!!

1st rule of skinning: Skin for yourself, and SCREW what everone else thinks of it.