This post was lying as a draft for long, it’s a little late to publish, but better late than never.
There are many designers who used aliases to downrate our themes, but the designer who broke all records was no other than Sadish Bala, who shared the same email id as Edwin’s (Sadish’s alias) and who shared 14 IPs in common with Edwin, to downrate so many of our themes and other designers’ themes.
Crab mentality continues, but the removal of the rating system at least discourages some unfair and malicious practices.
Lately I have also noticed some “prospective competition sites” trying hard to downrate Theme Viewer in some way or the other, with the only motive of moving designers to their own sites. With success, comes envy. I wouldn’t be surprised if people are paid to write misleading comments on Theme Viewer, just like people are paid to Digg, etc.
What disgusts me most is to see the very designers who use Theme Viewer as a platform to advertise their own talent, continuously complaining. As if a free service is not enough, designers make it sound like they own Theme Viewer or Thomas, the Undersigned. Aha, it’s like putting a gun to Thomas’s forehead and saying:” You gave us a free platform to showcase our work, but you better give us a good service, else….”. It’s the same as wanting a free theme, not on the designer’s terms and conditions, but on the users’ terms and conditions.
I would agree, it would make one irate to see their issues unaddressed for long, but it’s important to understand that running a site for free with a huge traffic like on Theme Viewer is not easy, changes are being made and it would be nice if designers are a little patient and co-operative.
We hope the Donation Button is up on Theme Viewer soon, it will be a good way of showing our gratitude to Theme Viewer.
I would like to extend a big “Thank You” most importantly to Thomas, the Undersigned in his effort to bring about such a valuable change by removing the rating system, and of course thanks to Aaron Krane for his valuable advice to accelerate this process.
amazing link i love it ..and i’ll come here again and again
Well said, Mark. I agree 100%. And I’m glad someone has the cajones to say it!
Let’s hope the removal of the ratings system is a nice start to cleaning up the ‘hood so to speak. Take care and see you round the theme viewer site.
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