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Wednesday, October 06, 2004

I'm getting under their skin

My new shirt design, "tourist safety shirt," got a rating...a 1 out of 10.

Gee, I think someone got perturbed...

Actually, this is pretty common. An awful lot of my shirts get either extremely low or extremely high ratings, because they have a point of view. I also have a bunch in the 5.5 range, from when one person gives a 10 and another a 1.

Any rating is fine by me. I'd rather have twenty "1" ratings on a design than just one or none at all. I put up the designs on whether they amuse me. My only other criterion is whether they sell (and I've sold some, though I'm always working on getting the numbers up more). The ratings are only useful for helping pull folks to the site when they do searches "by average rating, highest first." But again, I realize there's no way my designs will get consistently high ratings, because they come from a point of view.

I also have twenty designs with 50 or more viewings, so even for the ones that aren't selling, at least a lot of folks are seeing them in some form.

Additional note: although I could, I never rate my own designs. I don't think it's ethical. I have posted reviews of the designs I've purchased for myself, but at the top of each review I put the disclaimer that the contributor is the one writing the review.

Posted at 12:30 pm by brandonstarr

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