Pattern uploads: let users vote for which are featured on the site?

Crumpet 5/13/2012 01:37 am 4219

Our current system of approving patterns causes a lot of good patterns to be missed and never put on the site, as I'm sure many of you have noticed (when your own patterns weren't approved) If I set up a page where you the users could vote on all the appropriate uploaded patterns to choose which are published onto the main site, would any of you bother to vote? I'd make it so you could vote on many from one page.

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Crumpet
Site Owner

May 15, 2012 12:44 am

Maybe it's not the best solution, but something has to change. I have this fear that people will stop submitting patterns if none of theirs are accepted. Maybe I should do a trial run once I've thought it through, and see how it goes.

Monarch
Old School Member

May 15, 2012 4:06 pm

Yeah for me its hard when people message and ask why too, and then when I check their patterns they have just change the background on an existing pattern. Or when there are manymany patterns for the same thing (botdf for example) and people just keep submitting ones where there is only a slight difference. I agree though, that sometimes it is hard to decide what is okay and what is not :/

Hypomnesia
Member

May 19, 2012 12:09 pm

Absolutely! That's practically what I do anyway, go through and comment on the ones I like. This would be a perfect interactive feature.

starcat000
Member

May 24, 2012 3:41 pm

BEST idea ever!!!!!

Animal
Guest

May 25, 2012 2:28 pm

That would be awesome! Then I have something I can do now that I am out of school for the summer, haha.

HasukiChan
Member

May 28, 2012 3:30 am

That's a really good idea. I think it would work very well.

Crumpet
Site Owner

May 28, 2012 5:38 am

I am still planning on trying this out. I just have to finish a large project I'm working on before I can set it up

Killer
Member

Jun 3, 2012 2:00 pm

I can't wait for this feature!

lucylacystarbrush07
Guest

Mar 24, 2014 2:58 am

I wonder if this feature is completed already... :/

Crumpet
Site Owner

Mar 24, 2014 9:34 am

Lucy, I wasn't planning on adding this feature for a while because I've been too busy working on other things for the site which I think are more important (like a much improved pattern maker). However I had a bit of spare time today so I set up a voting page: http://kandipatterns.com/vote-on-patterns The problem is that I can't make any rules for how many votes get a pattern approved until I've seen how many people actually vote. So for now when you vote, nothing will be automatically approved but patterns which seem to be getting a lot of votes will be approved by the moderators. Later on, I will make a rule like "Patterns which receive X number of votes in X days will be approved." I might also add a "Vote down" option later on if it's needed, but I feel like that might hurt people's feelings.

Pattern uploads: let users vote for which are featured on the site?

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