Scratch

I like having fun on Scratch. Thats what I do it for. If I was on here for popularity, I would have given up long ago. All I care is that good projects get frount paged.

But if you're famous, more people will see your "quality projects"

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

But if you're famous, more people will see your "quality projects"

But, already-popular Scratchers [some] are still greedy to get more views on their other projects. Believe it or not, one of the popular Scratchers on front page spammed to get on their, but most people don't know that. Popularity isn't everything, really! But, I do agree with you, TheGameMaster123. It's life, and that's how things work. 

kingofdallamas wrote:

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

But if you're famous, more people will see your "quality projects"

But, already-popular Scratchers [some] are still greedy to get more views on their other projects. Believe it or not, one of the popular Scratchers on front page spammed to get on their, but most people don't know that. Popularity isn't everything, really! But, I do agree with you, TheGameMaster123. It's life, and that's how things work. 

Unfortunatly, yes. I don't spam. Never will. I just post and comment in a nice manner and well, average 30 views per new project I make. Thats since about the begining of the school year (September).

To put it simply, have fun with Scratch, but popularity is not what is in mind of ambitions.    Anybody else's opinion?

I agree!  I would like to get popular, but thats only so people can see my Void Ed. games in stead of a 5 sec animation that isn't even funny on the front page.  I would never stoop so low as to spam; I just let things play out as they will.

Last edited by Lar-Rew (2011-02-18 20:00:19)

kingofdallamas wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

But if you're famous, more people will see your "quality projects"

But if your not, no-ones looked.

You're, you mean, and anyways, people do look at the Scratchers, who are not seen as well. Well, at least I do! Try setting goals on Scratch to help others. For example, I've seen cheddargirl and a few others having their forum signatures with links of projects of their friends! And, I occasionally surf around Scratch and comment on projects that most people miss seeing. One good Scratcher is chazmaniandevel, for instance. 

XD, well, not just friends, I try to show off people's projects that could use more attention.   

I'm finding this technique of featuring projects in my siggy seems to bring some more attention to lesser-known projects; at the same time, it encourages me to take the time out to go exploring for some nice projects in Scratch instead of relying only on the channels on the front page. I encourage you guys to try it out, you'd be surprised at the results. 

cheddargirl wrote:

kingofdallamas wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

But if your not, no-ones looked.

You're, you mean, and anyways, people do look at the Scratchers, who are not seen as well. Well, at least I do! Try setting goals on Scratch to help others. For example, I've seen cheddargirl and a few others having their forum signatures with links of projects of their friends! And, I occasionally surf around Scratch and comment on projects that most people miss seeing. One good Scratcher is chazmaniandevel, for instance. 

XD, well, not just friends, I try to show off people's projects that could use more attention.   

I'm finding this technique of featuring projects in my siggy seems to bring some more attention to lesser-known projects; at the same time, it encourages me to take the time out to go exploring for some nice projects in Scratch instead of relying only on the channels on the front page. I encourage you guys to try it out, you'd be surprised at the results. 

No, I mean no one's stumbled upon you ... 
Anyway, I browse the main site very often. My favorites change very, very often.

Last edited by bananaman114 (2011-02-18 20:18:20)

bananaman114 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

kingofdallamas wrote:

You're, you mean, and anyways, people do look at the Scratchers, who are not seen as well. Well, at least I do! Try setting goals on Scratch to help others. For example, I've seen cheddargirl and a few others having their forum signatures with links of projects of their friends! And, I occasionally surf around Scratch and comment on projects that most people miss seeing. One good Scratcher is chazmaniandevel, for instance. 

XD, well, not just friends, I try to show off people's projects that could use more attention.   

I'm finding this technique of featuring projects in my siggy seems to bring some more attention to lesser-known projects; at the same time, it encourages me to take the time out to go exploring for some nice projects in Scratch instead of relying only on the channels on the front page. I encourage you guys to try it out, you'd be surprised at the results. 

No, I mean no one's stumbled upon you ... 
Anyway, I browse the main site very often. My favorites change very, very often.

So do mine. 

The only reason I try to be popular is because I believe the front page needs more projects with effort.  It doesn't matter if they're mine but I can aid the cause.  And not just the front page, but the site in general needs some notable games.  So I strive to do my best.

Last edited by Kileymeister (2011-02-18 21:01:24)

johndo77 wrote:

If you make good games you'll be recognized. Look at Bentheneighbor.

yeah so griven was up there once but he never made it back there
also griven didnt work for me at all i kept skipping everywhere

also i saw some stuff in here about spam which may or may not be directed at me even though i didnt add it to any of the galleries in fact i deleted my stuff from most of them

plus almost every "famous" scratcher has at one point openly admitted to spamming to get followers

This is how I look at it: If I put up a project with just a few notes in it, I don't care if it doesn't get front paged. However, if I make something incredible, then a little recognition would be nice. But I love Scratch, and love programming for it, so even if I wasn't popular, I just love tinkering with the project. And the best bit of all? Testing it.