i noticed that quite a while ago (maybe a year or more) the gallery roulette or however one would call that ribbon above of the topics was changed, it seems that it is now hand-picked and someone uses the tag “wow” for it. while i dont mind that this acts as kind of a quality control but this also narrows down the projects immensely showing the same projects over and over again over weeks if not months which has become seriously boring.
then i definitely rather see all entries rotating for a while like it was before which was really not that bad. I understand if someone repeatedly posts unfinished experimental projects in a high frequency that this might lower the quality a bit, but maybe it could be handled that one person gets to enter a certain amount of projects in a certain amount of time, the same is true for much “higher quality” entries with the same style either, which are no doubt very good but which unfortunately also increase the chances of making that roulette boring again because i see the same style over and and over.
also some really interesting projects are not even shown, when i occasionally click into the gallery to see what is added because i just cant believe how narrow the selection has become i often find to my surprise projects that in my opinion would be definitely worth showing far more than some random jewellery (no offence) which is obviously not my opinion alone looking at the likes these projects have which often outnumber the actually “wow” advertised entries by far.
so everybody or anybody that just peaks in participates in the selection? currently it looks like the favourite selection of one or maybe 2 individuals much rather.
i would love seeing the roulette become more diverse again. posts like this one below for instance which are nerdy is all about introducing diverse ideas, not just about nice renders or nice models.
not a huge fan of all of his works but this one below for instance would deserve a place there either, because it is something that creates an impulse and might motivate people just the same.
I registered on here barely a year now from august 2024 and i dont know mcneel folks from before yet i get these “favorable” wow tags on some of my projects so how is it nepotism?
i assume he is talking about nepotism in a more metaphorical manner.
please don’t misunderstand that but you are indeed one of the favored users in the gallery roulette i am sure you don’t mind how it currently works out, so your input might not help much if at all to democratize, individualize or at least randomize the gallery again.
I don’t really care to be honest remove the wow tags I would still post projects here I just reacted to the nepotism which would suggest I as a fairly new user, would not get these tags yet I still get them sometimes.
Here is some food for thought tho: let’s take 2 of my projects “electric heating Irons” and compare say the product category
How many existed before August 2024 in the gallery with the same or comparable level of detail/render that I output?
ANSWER= 0 and you can check yourself
of course it’s going to stand out I put alot of effort into them. Iron1: 4 days iron2: 9 hours, go figure why it gets wow tags and i am 100% certain anyone else gets these if they just put in some effort with the software.
Also I do not see many entries on a monthly basis
But you are right i am not of help here for the cause just putting things into perspective so i will leave it at that.
it is not about how skilled you are or how skilled you think you are, the gallery is a place or at least should be for a lot of different kinds of works.
lets not bloat it with more ego revealing content.
We are not censoring anything but the regular things that get censored on fora.
The top row is hand picked. We started doing this because it was getting flooded with projects of a single or couple frequent posters.
