i know, but i was wrong so its cool NT

Thanks Quentin for clearing it up. I thought The whole thing had to be bought.  

It took me a long time to post that. oops

jafo, she's not going to stop till you tell her what she wants to hear.. no one will be spared.. get it over with and save us all any more exposure to this hair splitting.

and congratulations kitty , you lost a friend(s) and gained the meaning of community, how proud you must be.

*sigh*

Well you certainly seemed to have opened a can of worms, kitty ... good for you!   

I participated in the latest Halloween community skin put together by AVman (kudos to you!) and, as kitty points out, it was announced in the forums and solicited any and all to volunteer.

A few years back I participated in another skin suite put together by select members of Skinartistry. It wasn't announced in the WC forums or the SA forums for that matter as I recall. The 'recruiting', if it can even be called that, consisted of a few skinners communicating by MSN or email deciding to get together and create a suite.


Both were 'community' skins in the sense of being created by members of the skinning community and being free to all.


I don't agree that 'for a fee' skins should qualify as what most people think of as a community skin, but free certainly should qualify regardless of their genesis.

A community suite is one made by various community members.  It is not one that "everyone" was invited to participate in.  If several community members band together to make a suite, no matter how they get together, it is a community suite.

No, why do u care how (conveniently) 2 Maxstyles skins are labelled? What difference does it make? It doesnt affect you in ANY way.

John if I want to ask a question about community skins, what is wrong with that?

From THE Big Cheese. You have your answer in laymens terms from someone with authority to give it to you. Resolved.

and lastly.. you asked.. while dragging Maxstyles through as much mud as you could while making out like were secretly banding together to screw everyone over.

Not so.

Good press / bad press = same press.

Are you guys sure this isn't some elaborate scheme to promote Maxstyles?
(insert paranoid smily here)   

Kitty.....

Rather than 'just' me explaining things in layman's terms....Karma has done so....#52

My 'role' here on Wincustomize.com is called 'Community Manager'  [sounds spiffy....hours are horrid].. so maybe I'm the one to 'define' "community skin".

Community Skin n. A group of skins [or suite] created by no less than TWO individual skinners intended to be a 'set' in appearance and style, sharing origins/images.

Note....there is no reference to 'free' or 'fee' or public pre-notification/tendering.

Dynamics/logistics/practicality will typically DEMAND that were a proposed Community Skin to be as diverse/huge as the original ones years ago there really would NEED to be a public advertising for skinners to enlist their services....but with 'smaller' suites that's not always going to be needed.

Jafo hopes this helps ....

Are you guys sure this isn't some elaborate scheme to promote Maxstyles?
(insert paranoid smily here)    [/quote]
Bwhahahaha    Don't forget.. its invite only.  

Thankyou Karma girl

I'm interested NT, How was credit shared?