has there been a single Windowblinds skin buried in the personal pages in recent years? 

Yep, but I cannot remember which or by who they were made.

Now that the hub-bub has died down some, I would like to agree with these statements to a degree. I just downloaded a skin that I rated pretty high only to find out the UIS2 frames, tool windows and button highlights/shadows were not skinned. While the skin is pretty it's unusable for the applications that I use.

 I admit i did already rated a skin without downloading it, by simply judging them by the screenshot, many skinners already include active unactive frames they display the startmenu show mouseover effects and such in it and sometimes they even show the calculator and notification the only thing i would miss out would be the please wait animation or startmenu animation frame animation and sounds) but normaly if a skin is animated i download it, but if there is no animation there only can be functionality issues but if nobody complained about problems at stagering 1200+ download things should be ok.

Wow - I read through the thread because I thought it was new. Just more of the same old b.s. about skin ratings. I do agree with demoting and/or banning anyone who is obviously abusing the system. I usually don't rate anything that I have not downloaded, and have bit my tongue a few times to just not say anything (i.e. if you can't say something nice.....).

I did not know that the ratings on the master skins were only from paid users.  That helps me judge the the results so much better.  I just put my mouse over the ratings under a skin and see the star light up, so I assume that  if I were to click it it would rate the product.  And I don't think that is fair from someone who hasn't really tested the product

Broken record...   yeah.  Not the only one who feels that way though.  Someone contacted me about their collection of paid ones here on the forums, but I don't think that is right either.

There are just too many jumping on the bandwagon to be master skinners.  Most master skins now are simply average skins  There are only a small handful of skins that truly deserve to be called masters.  Not everyone who is a master skinner should be putting all their skins for sale.  Why not simply make a market so everyone can sell their skins in one place, and separate the two types.   Maybe only skins that have 10 stars should even be considered as master.

Back when there was like one master skin for every 2-3 pages of skins, I bought one some years ago.  Now sometimes we are lucky if there 3 non master skins on some pages.  I am still waiting for that next skin that I will buy.  One skinner is very close...  her skins are just a tad too large for me.  Her prices are extreme though and so it makes it even harder to consider.

Wonder what would happen if master skinners put a skin on sale for $.99 like a song on itunes every once in a while?  Bet there would be a jump in sales.  If this were done on a daily basis randomly  in a window on Wincustomize, it might increase interest. 

Why do you keep on constantly talking about this 99 cent Master Skin crap? Just so you know, there is a minimum sale price established at WinCustomize and they will not allow a 99 cent skin, not even a $1.99 skin, or even a $2.99 skin. Please stop constantly complaining, because to tell you the truth, nobody really cares what you think.

PixelPunk - how about you get off your lazy, entitled arse and contribute instead of whinging.

You know why the page is full of master skins? Because people who release free skins, like me, don't upload anymore. Where's the reward in spending days or weeks on something only to have some ungrateful bitch whinging about it. So, I keep it to myself and skin for myself

Still going with this? There's no use in coming back to a thread with the same comments over and over.