Is Shmoopy Right?

Published on May 27, 2003 By SelfExiled In WinCustomize Talk

I'm wondering what's going on with moderation myself now. Last night I updated a sysmetrix skin,"TheKnight". I updated it because of a special request by a citizen. I included a 800x600 version of the skin which I had to resize every image(including animations), even completely redo a image that looked lousy resized because of text, adjust file names so it wouldn't crash when switching the two versions and a few other things. So, I checked the update date too.

But, when it reappeared, there was no update date at all. The original upload date is the same as the update date. I know that it was waiting approval last night and I see that the author information has changed so it was updated. But why is the date the same? Is this a honest mistake by the moderators, or is something "hokey-pokey" going on? I spent a lot of time updating this and I would like people to see the date change in case they wanted this version. Was it not changed because it would move it forward in the pages? I'm wondering. The date should be created - 5/22/03, updated - 5/26/03. What's going on, this time?

Comments (Page 3)

c242

on May 27, 2003

#25 by Mr ChasUGC - 5/27/2003 7:08:07 PM
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Then, I get a lot of personal attacks calling me Dumb, a Paranoid Hysteric and other things. I'm going to be better than that and not respond anymore.

Oh, I see You were not attacking anyone in Your first post.

And for me there is a difference between calling someone dumb (which I didn't do) and calling something dumb someone says.
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goodmorphing

on May 27, 2003

goodmorphing hands Frogboy a cool ti cloth, a complimentary rubber room, and tickets to a good movie.

goodmorphing

on May 27, 2003

OOPS.... one for c242 too!

hehe sounds funny aloud...

c242

on May 27, 2003

BoXXi

on May 27, 2003

Sheesh.......!

BoXXi also rubs temples......

Lecrayon

on May 28, 2003

Lecrayon thinks there is a terrible communication problem from admins to members. When there is a change in handling skins/updates pleeeeeeeeease adjust these in the about section. If there are things not valid anymore in the about section, how on earth can people know? And if it shouldn't be in the about section, update the rules or something. Then you can point towards that, rather than having admins explain what is already known to them. An example how things can go terribly wrong is the top authors. It should have been applied after the testphase and not DURING the testphase, then an announcement has to go out plus update in the about or help section.

c242

on May 28, 2003

That is right. Lecrayon has a point there. Documentation/FAQ updates are a general weak point here, IMO.

feline

on May 28, 2003

Adam, without checking i dont know about this specific example. but i do know that the libraries are sorted. change how you sort the library, and different things turn up on page 1.

so, presumably the skin update updated the value that the library was being sorted on.

all right, i have just loaded the DesktopX library, and by default it sorted on "Updated". you can choose to sort it by "Created" instead.

so, if i am reading your question right, this is an example of a skin getting a new updated date. whether that is right or wrong i dont know, since i havent looked at that DesktopX theme. i hope this helps

Jafo

on May 28, 2003

Adam...that sounds like a bug....I think the application of dates etc is less than 100% successful...as I said earlir...I've had problems getting dates to 'stick'...

grayhaze

on May 28, 2003

grayhaze rubs everyone's temples for them, free of charge

KarmaGirl

on May 28, 2003

The other idea is that there *might* actually be a bug in the code and it is not resetting dates for whatever reason. (gasp!...horror!) I think the T-Man is looking at it to make sure of it.

It could also be human error. (I know...that's not allowed). An admin can uncheck the reset date if they think it is being abused, which also means that they can accidentally hit that box.

My question is. (And this is a general question) Why aren't these types of issues sent to the admins as a question before they are posted to the public forum? If they were emailed, then we could look into the issue and fix it if need be after appropriate info has been obtained. When it is posted publicly, it opens a whole can of worms involving a whole bunch of people who ultimately get mad at each other.

KarmaGirl sits down to get her complimentary temple rub......

kona0197

on May 28, 2003

Point your black helicopters at me and do your will. That will teach people a lot about this site and the way it treats artists. I'm done submitting stuff to this site. I'm tired of the personal attacks. I'm tired of the people who submit no skins and slam other peoples work. I'm tired of people slamming others for having a different point of view. This isn't the type of community that I want to belong to, so have your fun with it. INSULT PEOPLE, RIP THEM APART, YOU DON"T HAVE TO THREATEN ME ANYMORE, I"M OUT OF HERE...(

From my point of view some of the things in that post were true. i will not say witch ones I think are right because i DON"T want to start another bloodbath and/or troll session.

I hope he comes back.

SelfExiled

on May 30, 2003

Author: IndyGirl1945

File size: 931k
Downloads today: 26
Downloads: 362

Created: 5/22/2003
Updated: 5/23/2003

Description:
Still practicing.Hope you like it.

SelfExiled

on May 30, 2003

Author: NIKER

File size: 1033k
Downloads today: 102
Downloads: 493

Created: 5/25/2003
Updated: 5/27/2003

Description:
Hi... my first LogonXP theme ... I hope you'll like it... Sorry... I'm lame... tis spelled Hogwarts ENJOY

Jafo

on May 30, 2003

I'm sure I mentioned somewhere there was a bug in the update system...

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