Steve PMed me saying they were still valid, and they have no plans to change them.

Well you tried.

Just wondering... is that Steve's decision or something all the other team leaders/management/whatever agree with?

Because honestly I agree with you. As long as it's not just a recolor of the skin - like if it looks semi-new/whatever and took some kind of effort and the default buttons fit in then it should be accepted.

i ask if it's just steve's decision because I wonder why he gets to decide that. he is not "skin admin" he is a "team leader" now, so are you.

better yet i'm confused on this: http://gfx.invisionize.com/db/index.php?f=4354

how is that any different? and it's steve777.

I'm not defending him as i believe that it takes effort even to use the original buttons in a new layout,

However the difference is that it is a graphical pack as opposed to an actual skin.

that graphical pack was uploaded well before the new rules were introduced (and before I was even on staff)

To explain in a little more detail why not accepting default skin in different colors

when the rule was made it was due to getting numerous default skins in different colors and we were accepting them but then we stated getting numerous skins all with of just one color (maybe 5 variations of green, 5 variations of red etc etc) then it was getting beyond a joke to spend time on testing those skins.

It was also decided that no great expertise was required to do this, hence the rule.

With all the work involved here it was decided by all staff and management at that time (not just me) to not allow default skins in different colors and I still agree with it (as may you if you had to test numerous default skins in different colors especially when ips release a new version or update)

If members want to create default skins in different colors then nothing stopping them add them to their own website and place link to them in their sig

lol, ok, so in other words, advertising. I thought there was a rule here on advertising your IPB products. Guess not. Oh well.

Now we know the answer(s)...........................

advertising no ... you are placing a simple link in your sig (same as I have and other members have ... as I see you have ... have we classed that a advertising)

if link crosses over into advertising boundary then we would ask that to be removed

Honestly, in order to make this place a more successful site, the rules need to be fixed to allow any skin. So what if they are the default images. Some folks like to keep the original images.

I fail to see why it's different. It's actually easier to recolor the graphic pack then to make a skin that uses default buttons. I haven't seen this specific skin in question but I'm guessing it would have been a decent addition to the db. it is a pretty stupid rule considering how bad IZE is doing right now. You are just making more and more people mad by rejecting stuff.

by the way... when I was looking through your db profile and website... why do you have no skins what so ever (and none uploaded here) but were the skin admin?

This post has been edited by .Justin: Jan 17 2010, 02:58 PM

You have stated the obvious

which is basically what I posted above

and to think that allowing default theme skins will make this site any better then cannot see that at all ... a simple skin like that can be done in what ... about 30 mins or so ... no great feat there then is there so if anyone wants a default theme skin then they can make it themselves ... can't they ?

I do have skins but not free skins ... check market

regardless of that ... why should that matter ....

am I helping members ?

am I online often to help ?

do my answers help members ?

are you also saying that any member of staff has to offer skins/mods etc if they are part of that member group, if so then
think bad idea

we help out here because we like this site (at least I do) we get nothing for the help we provide (and we get complained about when we stick to the rules and complained about when we don't ... seems we cannot win)

some members just come here only when they have a problem then they disappear until they have another problem (some without even a word of thanks) what are you going to ask them to do ... help out in forums where they can otherwise they cannot have help ?

if want to really see the 20+ 3.0.x skins and the numerous 2.3.x skins I have done then I can send you the links ?

no it's ok. for some reason the market place isn't listed in people's profile. I was just a little confused on why i'e never seen any skins from you before.

anyway, that's off topic-

I still don't see it as a problem, especially if it makes it look different or just improved. If its something someone will use then it adds to the database. That is something IZE needs right now.



No. To say that anyone can just recolor the default skin is just stupid. That's the point of a resource site. Not everyone understands what HTML is, not everyone understands CSS. People may be able to run a forum but they don't always understand hex codes, etc.

How can you say that on Invisionize? Members come here to post their skins and you tell them go turn around and post it on their own site? Invisionize is a resource site, and should accept any kind of design, as long as it is not plagiarized...

Um to show how easy skins are to make (not that I agree they shouldnt be able to be submitted) i just wanted to link this.

http://tools.invisionize.com/hosted/index.php?tool=BoardSkin

hello

I havent been here on this website in more then a year..just recently came back

I just remember that back 3-4 years ago this place used to be packed...not sure why everyone left, is it maybe that IBP became unpopular, maybe because everyone now can build a website like this in a few minutes? i dont know

but, i got great help over the years here, thanks guys

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