Scratch

Kind of bugged.... I wrote an entine paragraph application and all I get is some guy telling me some of my stuff was pointless to put in it, and people who have written ONE SENTENCE get replies. It's not fair.

every once in a while I'm just browsing random projects. Then I come to a game with less than 50 views some of these games are really cool but nobody really found out about them. I would like these projects to be on the front page so more people can see them.

You know, I am not really liking what the current curator, "forest" is choosing (no offense intended). Almost all the projects already get enough recognition, and now they are getting more. I can only find one reason for this:

To show the new scratchers what the old projects were like and possibly give them ideas.

While this is a good reason, the projects were already popular and now they are getting more and more popular? Won't that put a bit of stress on the creators of the project? For example, Paddle2See's projects, "Feather Paint" was on frontpage before. It had roughly 600 views. Then, when forest chose it, it gained more and more recognition. Those people already have fame, is it really right to give them more? Why not give other scratchers a chance at the spotlight, instead of having the same people who we all are very familiar of?

Last edited by TimeFreeze (2009-08-30 10:59:25)

I FINALY caught the front page cheating!!!! No one person is supposed to be on the front page in two places >:3 I CAUGHT YOU FRONT PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HAHA!!!!!!!

I thought it was both!

henley wrote:

I thought it was both!

Nope, and I have actually had a project in both of those catagories at the same time. I didn't know they put a limitation on it though.

TimeFreeze wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's that no one PROJECT can be on two different spots of frontpage.

They can, sadly enough...    Seen it before.

The real problem with the curator position is that the user's FAVORITES are selected, and if they keep adding favorites, those projects added to their favorites list last get noticed.Why not have whatever 3 projects the user chose originally be featured in the curator section? What I mean is, say someone get's picked as curator. Make them pick 3 projects they think SHOULD be noticed as soon as they are curator, and those projects STAY as "projects selected by ____________". That should answer Timefreeze's concern.

If you need me to clarify, I'd be happy to do so.

Last edited by Oldschooler2 (2009-08-31 17:08:46)

Oldschooler2 wrote:

The real problem with the curator position is that the user's FAVORITES are selected, and if they keep adding favorites, those projects added to their favorites list last get noticed.Why not have whatever 3 projects the user chose originally be featured in the curator section? What I mean is, say someone get's picked as curator. Make them pick 3 projects they think SHOULD be noticed as soon as they are curator, and those projects STAY as "projects selected by ____________". That should answer Timefreeze's concern.

If you need me to clarify, I'd be happy to do so.

that clears it all up 

could i be a scratch curator?

Oldschooler2 wrote:

The real problem with the curator position is that the user's FAVORITES are selected, and if they keep adding favorites, those projects added to their favorites list last get noticed.Why not have whatever 3 projects the user chose originally be featured in the curator section? What I mean is, say someone get's picked as curator. Make them pick 3 projects they think SHOULD be noticed as soon as they are curator, and those projects STAY as "projects selected by ____________". That should answer Timefreeze's concern.

If you need me to clarify, I'd be happy to do so.

Ah, I think we should clarify how some of these technical aspects of being curator work to help answer this question.     Each time we choose a new curator we send them some additional information about the role. Here's an excerpt:

Only your three most recent favorites will be displayed on the Scratch Homepage. If you want to show a project that is already in your favorites but not in the top three, you must remove it from your favorites collection and then re-add it. To do this go to your my stuff page, select the project and click 'remove selected favorites'. Then go to the project page and add it to your favorites again. It will now be your most recently favorited project.

So it is possible to show projects that were favorited a long time ago. One just has to un-favorite them and then re-favorite them. Hope this clarifies things!

i would like to show scratchs that are really good and use maths and are a really good ideas

Question: Has anyone who has applied actually been picked?