This has been bugging me.
Someone (I won't name names) emailed me yesterday and asked if they could upload a port of one of my skins. I had to decline. (Reason being, it didn't look like my skin. Had square buttons, mine had round. Color was a pea green, mine was a blue and they added a bunch of things that just didn't belong.) I tried to explain to them that it was a nice jesture, but they should change the name of the skin and call it thier own and then upload it. They replied back and was a little hurt but they understood.
About a week ago, I got an email from a well known skinner. They do a lot of XPStyle skins. They wanted to use one of my skins for a package they were putting together. They had made everything but my skin, but needed my skin to complete the package. And they were going to call the package something else. I had to decline once again. I told them that it was already part of a suite and I didn't want my skin to be called something else and that I appreciated them emailing me and of thinking of my skin.
Let me tell you. They didn't want to hear that. I got a reply that wasn't G,PG or even PG13, it was rated R! They chewed me up one side and down the other. Needless to say, they are definitly off my Christmas list. (For anything.) I take it as a compliment when someone asks to port, but it should not be a given IF you port.
Sure I have ported a few things that were turned down, but I always understood when they declined for whatever reason.
I feel, even though these are free skins, there should always be professionalism in skinning, because sometime It can be a pretty bad sting.
