Angel's Rant Thread(Bring your rants here)

Did you like this weeks winners?

Yes! All of them.	12.1%	[ 66 ]
No! None of them.	14.8%	[ 81 ]
Some of them.	42.7%	[ 233 ]
Only the Cosplays.	6.0%	[ 33 ]
Only the Matching.	3.1%	[ 17 ]
Only the Themed.	2.2%	[ 12 ]
One really pissed me off.	19.0%	[ 104 ]
Total Votes:			[ 546 ]

[xXxAngelxOfxDeathxXx]

Angel's Rant Thread

In hopes of reducing the amount of 2 page rant threads about bots, new items that EVERYONE is using, everyone using art etc I've made this thread. Bring your rants here and let it lose. Don't be extremely mean and lash out at one particular person though! Don't like the thread? Rant about it. XD

I've decided to make a new rant, because the other one was old. Though I've already posted this in the thread, I'll post it here

I was looking at the winners of the past few weeks, and the rating scores are quite different. These weeks have been very high, along with the rest of the glitch weeks, but the rest have an average of about 4.20 for first place. (It's funny, almost all of my old avatars would have been winners with the scores they have now. Oh how the voting has changed.)

It seems like the problem from the last arena is arriving again. In the old arena there was this thing where everyone that wanted a great score had to submit their avatar at midnight on sunday (or monday?) so they could get the first spot. Now that they finally added a "view all" button again, it's happening again, and I think the people that are from page 50 to the end get less votes than the first 50.

I think that is how some of the crappy avatar's are slipping in... not enough votes because they're somewhere in the middle where people are too lazy to go to...

Any suggestions on what we should do about this?

Winners are down below

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[xXxAngelxOfxDeathxXx]

Alright guys, I've decided to stop my critiques, or at least for now. Lately I've just been dreading doing it every week, and I feel I just rush through it. I just say the same crap over and over again. I might start it back up once I find some NEW things to says, but for right now, they'll be gone. If you ask me my opinion of one/all of the winners or something, I'll gladly answer, but I won't be making it a formal posting each week. I'll continue with the rants though, because those NEVER go away. xd

[joseybird]

I wish that more people who choose to use art in the arena would use it more effectively. I'm not just talking about quality of style of the art. Many people will use art that does nothing to show off the outfit design or use art while not making efforts to tweak the actual outfit.

It's a bit like using a description to enhance your entry. A great story won't make up for a sub-par outfit, and a story should enhance the viewer's appreciation of the avatar design.

Everything, imo, comes down to the construction of the actual avatar. Art (if one includes it) and description and title should work together to show off your avatar/outfit design skills.

(By "should" I mean "if you want to use the elements of an avatar entry most effectively", imo 3nodding ).

[Fiiona]

Flame me if you want, but I'm sick of seeing 6 or 7 cosplays in the top ten each week. The rest are mildly creative themed avatars in which a human character is invisible (usually based around a plushie looking like it's doing something), and one actual outfit accompanied by avatar art. People have proposed a separate cosplay arena, which sounds good to me! But it's just as annoying that people who can draw good avatar art for themselves (or can afford high-quality art) are at such a huge advantage. sweatdrop

[Pasithea]

Oh yay, a rant thread, just what I need. My first 9 ******** comments in the arena and they are ALL bots.

I just deleted them all the little bastards. They are getting smarter now about what they post, simply putting a scale of 1-10 on there like, 1/10, 2/10, 6/10.

Still it's just too obvious when you have like 9 of those in a row.

[joseybird]

Fiiona

Flame me if you want, but I'm sick of seeing 6 or 7 cosplays in the top ten each week. The rest are mildly creative themed avatars in which a human character is invisible (usually based around a plushie looking like it's doing something), and one actual outfit accompanied by avatar art. People have proposed a separate cosplay arena, which sounds good to me! But it's just as annoying that people who can draw good avatar art for themselves (or can afford high-quality art) are at such a huge advantage. sweatdrop

I've seen tons of very similar complaints from others on the board; no need to worry you'll be flamed 3nodding . I don't mind cosplays, and I know they can be very creative, but I'd be much happier if the ration of cosplays (or concept avis) to original avatars was more like 1:1 instead of 2:1 sweatdrop .

You can actually get great art for free. I got all 3 of the pics on my profile for free. Try the Freebies forum or bumping select auctions in R+C Auctions for nice art =) Might take a bit of looking and/or some patience bumping, but you can get beautiful stuff for free.

@Pasithea: I've noticed those this week too! o_o; I actually thought they were just b*****d downvoters gonk

[Pasithea]

joseybird

@Pasithea: I've noticed those this week too! o_o; I actually thought they were just b*****d downvoters gonk

Nope they're bots. Plus if you look at their avatars they are generally new and most of them have the same guy/girl avatars.

I actually have a very low vote on my entry currently. xD But then again it's not fabulous or anything. I never win, I usually just stick myself in the arena so I can get people to give me profile comments. lol

[Nemesis Kenobi]

Bots have always been the plague of the arena. I'm not sure if it was ever determined if they actually vote or not, or simply leave comments. Still, they're a nuissance.

[Spes Astrum]

I hate it when they vote you down just because they are in the arena as well. You should vote fairly.

[xXxAngelxOfxDeathxXx]

I kind of agree with the thought of taking away getting gold when voting and comment in the arena. It would make the arena a little more fair. We would still have the problem of people giving 1's because they want to win instead, but it would help!

[Sera Michaelis]

I very very very strongly support the removal of gold granting in the avi arena. It would make the bots go away, which would help people who have entered by a lot. All but maybe two or three of my comments so far have been bots, letting me know that I've been voted a 1 or even a 5. At least a competitive downvoter has a reason to be malicious, rather than these stupid bots. scream

[xXxAngelxOfxDeathxXx]

Synyster Slash

I very very very strongly support the removal of gold granting in the avi arena. It would make the bots go away, which would help people who have entered by a lot. All but maybe two or three of my comments so far have been bots, letting me know that I've been voted a 1 or even a 5. At least a competitive downvoter has a reason to be malicious, rather than these stupid bots. scream

*Agreed*

[lillibit]

Some bots are downvoting, some are just commenting. I'm noticing a few are leaving numerous comments on the same entry and they are all the same.

[Bunny Cakes[MB]]

It seems most of my comments are bot comments this week, it annoys me greatly, i really wanted some honest comments this time, but the week is still young and hopefully that will change. xd

i can appreciate people using art in the arena at times, sometimes it does really help an avatar come across better like the description or even an small animation but when people get to where they use art for every single entry or when they go all out on art and forget the avatar it gets old.