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#1 2010-09-25 22:26:56
Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
I like the featured projects section, it's a great way to get great unpopular projects popular. But what if there was a section for "Featured Users" that were unpopular and made good projects. It would be on the "Front Page next to the featured projects on the sidebar on the right side of the screen. Pinochio said it well here ----> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=25135 . I would love to see this work except we should have 3 users on the page, you get your 3 weeks of fame.
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#2 2010-09-26 22:03:56
- XplodingEggs
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Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
This is a very good idea! But when you said your 3 weeks of fame, did you really mean that they would be on the front page for 3 weeks? because I think it would be better if the featured user would be updated about as often as the featured projects and there would be a separate forum thread or to suggest featured users, or we could just use the featured project forum and rename it: Suggest projects/users to be featured. Thanks for suggesting this!
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#3 2010-09-27 12:41:38
Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
Thanks for sharing/thinking.
I think the featured section on the front page is a very limited way for a few projects to become 'popular'. (a ton of views and comments: "great!" to "why is this on the front page?") Feature users would be nearly the same, you would just also be able to pick from their most recent projects. (as you can also do from a featured projects on the side: "more projects by...")
The front page can not represent all of scratch user's interests fairly. (games, art, warrior cats, advanced projects, music, math, stories, pokemon, pickles...)
I would rather show my projects to (and collaborate with) fewer people that are interested in my types of projects than everyone. Let's make tags stronger. 
Last edited by JTxt (2010-09-27 16:30:18)
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#4 2010-09-27 16:30:35
Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
We considered something like this once, and maybe it's time to consider it again! We were thinking it would be a row featuring projects by Scratchers who met a certain criteria - something like:
1. Creator has never been front paged.
2. Creator has been Scratching for a while (45 days +?)
3. Creator has at least a couple pages of projects.
4. The projects eligible to be picked has at least some views and love its from their friends - even if only a few.
I guess this is a little different than featuring a Scratcher - but it would at least start to address the problem of the many Scratchers whose projects never get front paged!
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#6 2010-09-28 05:32:44
Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
Lightnin wrote:
We considered something like this once, and maybe it's time to consider it again! We were thinking it would be a row featuring projects by Scratchers who met a certain criteria - something like:
1. Creator has never been front paged.
Good idea.
2. Creator has been Scratching for a while (45 days +?)
If a newbie makes a great project, then why not feature it?
3. Creator has at least a couple pages of projects.
Why? Scape by coolstuff was featured. If Scape was his only project, it would still get featured!
4. The projects eligible to be picked has at least some views and love its from their friends - even if only a few.
Ever heard of mutiple accounts?
I guess this is a little different than featuring a Scratcher - but it would at least start to address the problem of the many Scratchers whose projects never get front paged!
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#7 2010-09-28 07:19:09
Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
helltank wrote:
Lightnin wrote:
3. Creator has at least a couple pages of projects.
Why? Scape by coolstuff was featured. If Scape was his only project, it would still get featured!
Scape wasn't featured. 
It got popular all on its own, granted it did get a ton of help from members of the community.
I think Lightnin's point is that this would be a separate row just for people who meet these criteria. It really wasn't fair that my first project got featured, considering it downright awful.
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#8 2010-09-28 11:28:42
Re: Scratch 2.0 Idea: Featured User.
Lightnin,
So, users with that criteria would be automatically featured randomly? or would the scratchteam pick?
To me, featured user is very similar to featured projects. ...but instead of going to what is considered a great project by the user, you go to a user's profile. (correct?)
Are most of his/her projects ready for prime time? (usually not) ...if they're not, I think the community will burn out quickly from investigating featured users.
I would rather find and collaborate with people with similar interests, than everyone.
(Not that I'm ungrateful for having a project featured! ) I think we need to simplify the front page, and make tags stronger and more community driven so we can find things we would like easier.
Last edited by JTxt (2010-09-28 15:28:30)
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