I may not be a winner, but I'M BAD
Bad enough a dude to use MS Paint and like it.
I voted 8* because... well... even if it sucks compared to other programs, you could do SO much worse. Imagine a program with no zoom function, only one tool with only one brush size, one file format that no other program recognizes, uneditable palette... That'd be a 1* right there. In comparison, Paint is definitely high up. Makes it even better that, no matter where you are, if there's a Windows computer nearby, it's got Paint on it. It's great to be able to whip up stuff if you're sitting at school, or... In the library or whatever. Open up paint, doodle some, put it on Photobucket or whatever and download it at home and finish it. Or whatever. Like. Dude.
Anyway.. um... yes. Paint gets to be an 8. Or at least a 7. The software itself is probably 6 or 7, but it's so accessable, I give it an 8.