Sure, dA is horrible - the community, anyway. I don't see what that has to do with this though. Critique is an underused feature (because it requires subsription of both parties). If anything, page after page of "awesome!" even when the work is mediocre at best is something that feels very much like dA to me...
(by registered users btw, dA doesn't allow anonymous posting AFAIK)
For some people - I'm fine either way really, but I know they are out there - the criticism is the reward for putting it up. "Looks great", "Well done" and so on can be encouraging, but you can get too much ego-boosting at times ;).
One possibility might be to do what dA does* - separating comments and critique: the uploader can then chose wether to allow critque or not. Not sure if that's a good idea though, or worth the effort...
* without the need to subscribe, obviously - if anything looks even slightly interesting on dA, it's going to require a subscription. No exceptions.
Being forced to register (or login) usually makes me not bother with it, so yes, I for one consider them a good idea. Maybe allow a "poster" field where you can fill in a nick other than "Anonymous"? I agree that the current way is confusing.
You have to go to "Edit"->"Publish" and check "Published", then save. Have no idea if the "Mark this as (un)reviewed" actually does anything whatsoever...
Put them into an archive (.zip, 7z) and make a preview containing enough of the variations to give a good impression of the contents. There have been talks about a better system for doing these kinds of things, but for now that will do.
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This is a suggestion for implementation, and as such, Bart is obviously the one best suited to judge if this has any merit. In theory, it sounds like a rather nice idea.
Or sounded. I'm tired, so I'll probably rant about a bit too much and make it needlessly complicated. Good thing I made this a new post, no?
Anyway.
The idea is to make the tag system more versatile. To begin with, we add a new class of "special" tags, which are hidden and/or treated differently from "normal" tags in many views, but are (maybe) internally normal tags. I'll mark them by prefixing them with a ":". Then we implement nesting, at least to a certain extent. For example, art would automatically be tagged with ":user/username", genres could be ":genre/action" and so on. User collections might look like ":user/username/:collections/mycollection". From here, two more things are needed:
Tags can have a freeform description field and/or some other fields, which will be shown on the browse page.
Tags can be subscribed to. Or rather, tag *rules* can be subscribed to. As an example, ":projects/* & :user/troll" would fire as soon as art made/contributed by user "troll" is added to any project (which would probably be very interesting to user "troll").
Sure, dA is horrible - the community, anyway. I don't see what that has to do with this though. Critique is an underused feature (because it requires subsription of both parties). If anything, page after page of "awesome!" even when the work is mediocre at best is something that feels very much like dA to me...
(by registered users btw, dA doesn't allow anonymous posting AFAIK)
For some people - I'm fine either way really, but I know they are out there - the criticism is the reward for putting it up. "Looks great", "Well done" and so on can be encouraging, but you can get too much ego-boosting at times ;).
One possibility might be to do what dA does* - separating comments and critique: the uploader can then chose wether to allow critque or not. Not sure if that's a good idea though, or worth the effort...
* without the need to subscribe, obviously - if anything looks even slightly interesting on dA, it's going to require a subscription. No exceptions.
Being forced to register (or login) usually makes me not bother with it, so yes, I for one consider them a good idea. Maybe allow a "poster" field where you can fill in a nick other than "Anonymous"? I agree that the current way is confusing.
You have to go to "Edit"->"Publish" and check "Published", then save. Have no idea if the "Mark this as (un)reviewed" actually does anything whatsoever...
I'm so aiming for the last one :p.
Put them into an archive (.zip, 7z) and make a preview containing enough of the variations to give a good impression of the contents. There have been talks about a better system for doing these kinds of things, but for now that will do.
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A few points from above still holds:
Then:
Again, I have no idea how plausible this idea is in the first place.
Welcome to OpenGameArt - I love your stuff, nice to see that you joined! These forums have rather low-activity (we are working on it). The IRC channel, on the other hand, is often very active, depending on the time of day. Feel free to join us there as well :).
This is a suggestion for implementation, and as such, Bart is obviously the one best suited to judge if this has any merit. In theory, it sounds like a rather nice idea.
Or sounded. I'm tired, so I'll probably rant about a bit too much and make it needlessly complicated. Good thing I made this a new post, no?
Anyway.
The idea is to make the tag system more versatile. To begin with, we add a new class of "special" tags, which are hidden and/or treated differently from "normal" tags in many views, but are (maybe) internally normal tags. I'll mark them by prefixing them with a ":". Then we implement nesting, at least to a certain extent. For example, art would automatically be tagged with ":user/username", genres could be ":genre/action" and so on. User collections might look like ":user/username/:collections/mycollection". From here, two more things are needed:
And that is all (heh)!
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