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#1 2010-05-03 19:37:26
Project genre feature.
I was just thinking about Scratch, and how recently there has been a lot of fuss, flames and arguments about the front page, and how a lot of the projects are "undeserving" as they are just pictures of cats.
This is not my opinion so I side with the people on the scratch team. 
But I do think that although these projects are worthy, there should be a limit, as variety is the spice of life!
With a lot of games being ignored but art prevailing, I suggest a Project Genre feature.
It's relatively simple, each project you make, assign it a genre, say "Game" or "Art" or some others.
Then instead of "Top Viewed", "Top Viewed Games" and "Top Viewed Art" could replace it, and the same to "Top Loved".
Thus insuring a fair chance for game makers and artists.
Thanks for reading, feel free to comment about this idea.
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#5 2010-05-04 00:03:48
Re: Project genre feature.
kiwi95 wrote:
I suggest a Project Genre feature.
This is what tags are supposed to do.
The problem is that tags are easily abused. You can add on as many tags as you want, if a project already has many views just adding a tag can be at the top of that tag page... so we have junk tag pages like waffles... and many other are irrelevant.
Some people add tags that have nothing to do with the project to get more attention.
And "top views" does not mean the community liked the project. It usually means that the maker picked good artwork for the thumbnail or a sensationalist title. like "I QUIT" or "BEST GAME EVERRRR!!" or "CLICK MEEEEE" or the title or picture looks interesting...
Love it's and Fovorites are like voting, and are better, but they don't say that it's a good game or good art, only that people like the project... so they don't help the tagging problem.
I think the solution is to have PER TAG VOTING. The project owner can add a "Game" tag, "Art" and other tags, then allow the community to vote up tags they think are relevant, and vote down tags they don't.
The project may have art and it may be a game. but if it's more of a game, than art, other scratchers will likely vote up "Game", but either not vote up or vote down "Art".
There's more to this idea. I believe it will be simple to use and solve this problem you and many of us are concerned about. But I haven't done very well at explaining it yet, so I think many skip over what I wrote. Please read and ask questions. I'll try to keep making it easier to understand... and we can keep making it better.
Last edited by AddZero (2010-05-04 00:34:20)
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