Sure do....which is why my name's [for one] on the list of 'recent forum activity' so much...
To improve a site, comments NEED to be read...and are. What is often forgotten/overlooked, however, is that this interaction at WC Forum level is only a relatively small part of the 'whole shebang'.
Wincustomize.com currently has over 2.65 million registered users, very few of whom comment/interact here, but are that ubiquitous 'silent majority' that accounts for most of these downloads that generate fame/popularity/prominence, aka 'the download numbers' FOR these skinners.
Site revisions are aimed towards aiding this user-base enjoyment of the skinners' content because from them will likely come the 'next generation' of skinner and/or forum user so they're an important component of Wincustomize.
What is just as important are the current 'skinners', old and new, whose motivation/s for posting works here can be as diverse as the skins they produce, however all reasons are equally valid.
Each general user, and/or skinner/content provider hopefully gets FROM this site at least as much as what he or she puts INTO the site. This is the logic behind download limitations/subscriptions/user-level promotions - all the bits and bobs of what Wincustomize has evolved into over the [nearly] 6 years of life.
The intent is that Wincustomize.com be THE 'place-to-be' if you are A/ a skinner, or B/ a person wanting to find a skin.
Now, references to Bootskins vs Windowblinds leading to top-skinner popularity [or not] is that underlying 'feel' of elitism...that skinner a's bootskin is inferior to skinner b's Blind because a bootskin is simpler than a Blind [to create].
The truth of the matter is that each person is a 'skinner', and, truth be known, most of the 'highly regarded' Windowblinds [as example] skinners started with simpler projects, yes, even ports of others' work.
Next time someone thinks 'he is only a logon skinner' [etc]....reword it as follows... "he is a fellow skinner".
That's what 'community' is all about....
haha...
Perhaps I could pen an article re expectations of 'community'....using words of one syllable, sentences of one word, paragraphs of one sentence and articles of one paragraph, typing slowly.....
....or I can run the existing one through babelfish...