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i agree!

Agree. It's kind of fun to see a zillion notifications and then realize you are front paged. I was like "800 notifications?!? That's crazy! Now whose project is that? Oh, it's mine!               ", but, some people are caught in the fame revolving door, being bumped onto the front page... because you are on the front page. (Why? Because you are on the front page. See the loop?)

Anyways, what if you can only get in the top *something* in a category with one project? That is, if you get 2 projects with more loves or stuff than anybody else, only the one with the most goes in the top *something* and the other has to skip down to the lower section. If *something* was the top 20, then your second project would get a shot at being the 21st.

Another way is for each project to have a score that is computed by Loves+Faves-FrontPageTime. Then, you would get on the front page if you had a higher score than other projects. But, each day you are on the front page, you lose 1 point. You can gain things like less New Scratcher time for people who use a referral code. Why prizes? Losing points by being front-paged might make Scratchers not want to make front page projects, because, well, you lose points. So, the (small) prizes make Scratchers want to front page their projects again.

Those are my ideas. I hope you like them!

djvalue wrote:

benjamindragonpants wrote:

You know how some people ALWAYS get homepaged. i don't think that is fair. Sure, they may have good projects but scratch should give OTHER people a chance.
Sign your name if you agree. Unless its good reasoning, no negative comments.

I totally agree, i've put such hard work into my projects. i find myself bent over the computer all night for what? two? Three views? last week, when that 3d building was feautured? the day before, i had built a whole studio for buildings with a wireframe and everything, this morning i made a 3d dead space engineer, it too me 3 hours for this one sprite, and it never got a single view. When stuff like this happens it makes me doubt the scratch network as a whole, i mean why should i make projects when all they're gonna do is take up space? Anyway, we just need a better way to find superior projects.

I commented on 3D space engineer. 

jji7skyline wrote:

Earthboundjeff wrote:

I'm pretty famous.

You wish!    Yeah you are in the forums.

Wait, I am?
Cool!

I've been on the front page lots of times! Only on the "newest projects" page though. It WOULD be quite nice if I could get on OTHER parts of the FRONT PAGE. I totally agree with this!!! 

EDIT: Actually, Ive been featured once for making a project about a chicken crossing the road.

Last edited by koilmasta (2013-01-21 10:09:33)

There is no reward for being frontpaged, just the majority of the community knowing your username...

Honestly, fame is not everything. It's nice, but it really doesn't add much to your life. Try showing Scratch to some of your IRL friends. They might like it, and you can be famous with each other. If you really want to get front paged, make a good project and suggest it for curation NICELY; i.e., "Hey, could you check out my project, [whatevs] and tell me if it is curator worthy? Thanks!"

I support the idea that a Scratcher should not be allowed on the front page more thatn a few times. If they really are famous, they will have a lot of friends, and then the friends can just find the famous Scratcher's projects with the friends recent projects part of the front page.

Hey guys, I have an idea! What if there was a row that said "chosen by scratchers like you!" It  will be a mixture of the curated and SDS rows. Instead of a special project theme every week, the curators of that row find projects that they the majority agrees on. But, here's the catch. It's also like the featured row. They couldn't have been front paged in the last  6 months. This would make it easier for scratchers to get front paged, because it could be any project that the majority of the curators liked instead of the scratch team having to have three that change every week or so (They change much quicker).

Last edited by ImagineIt (2012-02-22 11:05:05)

Totally.

I really don't see how this is a suggestion. 

RedRocker227 wrote:

I don't go on the main site anyway, so I don't really care. 

You're the one who gets a lot of views, so don't tell me you don't go on the main forums. 

RedRocker227 wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

I don't go on the main site anyway, so I don't really care. 

You're the one who gets a lot of views, so don't tell me you don't go on the main forums. 

I take it you didn't mean main forums?

Anyway yeah, but I only really check the front page when I've uploaded a project to see how it's doing, other than that I never go on it at all. 

Yeah. >.<

Mmmhmm.