If you've got something to say about an upcoming policy decision on whether or not the Skins & Themes Gallery should allow picture skins, this is the place.
A picture skin is a skin that has one picture or image spanning a large section of the skin, with original graphics for certain elements of the skin, such as control buttons and displays and so on.
The S&T Gallery does not allow generated skins (skins created instantly by a program, using any image as input - there's no real skinning involved). This was mentioned in the policy `nieman created a long time ago, and the policy was also against picture skins. However, I thought that this would deter artists who were fans of anime, musicians, games, etc. from taking up skinning, since they might prefer to create a tribute skin for their favourite whatever. So I modified it to allow picture skins (read it here [link]).
Now, many members of the skinning fraternity here are up in arms about the huge number of picture skins in the gallery. A large number of these have minimal skinning effort put in by the artists who have submitted them, and I'm sure that's a cause of concern when it comes to matters of quality and of the true essence of skinning.
What are your thoughts on this issue? Please take a look around in the S&T gallery, and you'll see what I'm talking about. My suggestion is that a new category be opened in the S&T gallery for fan skins. The policy against generated skins will be enforced here as well, and we will also strive to promote quality over quantity.
Do comment here, and/or over at [link] , a a forum I had opened to discuss this. Thank you for your time!