RE: Splinterlands Art Contest! // Week 164 // 10 Booster Pack Prize!
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Are the winners of this art contest decided by just one person? If so, is that person the one giving away the packs?
This seems like something that could be run by a small group, or the Mavs, and/or include some adjustments to personal preference, based on previous wins/placements, at least.
It seems like voting on the art contest could be a great use-case for staked SPS voting @cryptomancer, whatcha think? The person running the contest compiles the valid entries, and anyone with staked SPS could vote on them, with some negative modifiers for having been in each of the top slots the week (or two) before. Sort of a handicap to increase the variety of artists chosen.
To be clear, I'm not 100% neutral here, @h-t-t is a good friend, and after years of telling him about Steem & Hive, it was a pretty big deal to have him get his first post up, and to have it be such an epic entry to the @Splinterlands contest, clearly one of the best last week, was even more exciting... Not even a mention?
I'm not nearly the art critic that @aak23 here is, but clearly #1 on this list is... not great, by any standards, #7 is super out-dated and probably used for some other IP, etc.
Well if you think about it it's a bit redundant that they are choic choosing winners to make nfts for the community that expresses they don't like them LOL. and it seems the only reason they are picking the number one is because they wa want to release 3D art nfts of their individual cards. Period. maybe hire him then instead.
Thank you for giving your opinion @fortheloveofsl and @kennysgaminglife. A voting system sounds like a good idea, but the people would vote for their "friends", thus making the results biased. Maybe we could find some extra features to make the voting valid?
Another suggestion would be to add more juries, every single one of them would make a list of their picks and each position would have different scoring, for example, 1-3 place would get 3 points 4-6 2 points, 7th place 1point. Then everything would be counted and the final list would be created based on the score.
I don't want anyone to feel discouraged from participating or from using their creative engines to produce art of something that they enjoy. People of all skill levels should be free to express themselves and receive recognition and positive feedback of their hard work and effort.
I've been doing this for a long time, this is how I put bread on the table. But it's taken me a lot of hours to get to that point. I'm comfortable with not winning, because I'm at the point where I do this for a living anyways. However, If you've pursued a creative medium before then you've been at that starting line, and being directly compared to others can be uplifting, but it can also be equally as damaging to be reminded that you're not at that level yet.
It's a difficult situation. I feel like when there's competition and placing involved then this debate of objective/subjective criteria follows close behind. Especially when prizes are involved. I'm almost curious to see what people would think about shifting focus to something more akin of a "Community Spotlight", still having it be open ended, but choosing a number of participants and distributing rewards equally amongst them to avoid this sort of hierarchy.
Could also say don't put too much stake in the results and just do it to have fun, but it's hard to satisfy everyone.
Just my 2 cents.
At last! The Hero For FUN!!! I'm with you bro!
Agreed,
I enjoyed drawing character that I like, it's fun and satisfying, and imagined how the Splinterlands universe look like.
Winning in the contest is a bonus, I didn't win any so far but I really appreciated that my fanart being curated by the communities.
Contest organized by Splinterlands, we should respect the decision they made, constructive criticism is ok, no harsh word needed since this is just a fun contest for the communities to participate, just have fun and enjoy all the fanarts from the community.