nickcharles opened this issue on Mar 01, 2005 ยท 74 posts
Rykk posted Sat, 05 March 2005 at 4:06 PM
Here's another suggestion I thought of: Maybe have separate galleries for artists who are "professionals" in that they do digital art either as a vocation or hope to - or have posted to a particular genre for a relatively long time and wish to join the "pro" gallery. And only allow rankings/votes by their "peers" registered as "pro's" in general and maybe people who have posted to the regular gallery for that genre for quite a while. But let anyone who wanted to comment do so. This might help artists who might have a monetary stake in their work, are very experienced but maybe aren't so active socially or think that that has an effect on H20 votes. Sort of like gaining "experience points" in a MMORPG like "Everquest" or something? Art brokers or agents would be apt to go look there and if they had opportunities, the "pro's" might be more able to quickly zip off print quality/size files because they have already done that type of thing? At least then they wouldn't have their stuff rated against the more social ones or hobbyists (not that being sociable neccessarily means they aren't a good artist, too) which sounds like part of the "problem" some people perceived and they wouldn't have to worry about the "crossover" thing either? Just another idea, or maybe a hare-brained scheme - lol. Just trying to help and maybe if we toss out LOTS of ideas, some might actually be good ones that could be implemented. Rick