hi tony have not heard about this eiter,since i was here last time ages ago.

 i am going now the first time ever to have a look at the charts,as i was never interested in,but it seems to be an issue here,so i will check out for myself.

i am a doer-lol.

hi chris i agree,this could work - let everything aside and take only the logic of the numbers.
the way you suggest would indeed open diversity.

i think so at least and it might even be real fun with a gift and becoming to know more people because you see all the time different names everywhere and you pop here and there,it is true there are thousand out there even millions wich we do not know yet ,could be a challenge.

Quote - The idea about independent panels was bouncing around my head again and I came up with something that would work without too much possibility for abuse.

There are, at pretty much any given time, more than 3,000 members online, which seems like a good place to start. How about randomly picking 10 or 12 judges for a month, among the active members?

It would be a great opportunity for the members to become actively involved in the process, quite democratic, and a bit like a community service - in a very positive way, of course. Maybe Rendo would also be willing to throw in a gift certificate or something, at the end of the month, as a little 'Thank You'.

The panel members would be taken off the eligible candidates' list for the next eleven months, which pretty much guarantees diversity, opens the way for varying opinions and perspectives - and curbs favoritism.

I realize that some members would be less than enthusiastic and others simply won't have the time to look through the postings and make their picks, but we have a lot of members! I'm sure we could find many who'd love the opportunity. It seems better to me, than asking directly for volunteers (which might open the door for too much favoritism again) and getting 'professional' judges would have even more ghastly consequences in the long run.

The nuts and bolts need to be worked out, of course, but it's any idea.

Quote - I've been a member of Renderosity for a number of years and up until about a year ago I always valued comments left by people, however there seems to be an ever increasing number of people who cut and paste virtually the same comment on hundreds of images, plus a few that seem to favourite everything under the sun. This seems to be in a bid to constantly get in the many art charts that Renderosity produces. This kind of behaviour has nothing to do whatsoever with art and seems to me to be an ego boost of some sort. I have found one artist that has over 1000 pages of favourite images which to me is beyond belief.
Please can we scrap the art charts as they seem pretty meaningless to me these days and may stop this sort of behaviour which is destroying the purpose of Renderosity and one of the reasons that is driving me and many other people away from this site.
I'd like to hear peoples view on this as I have spoken with many people on here who feel exactly the same way as me.

yes this chsrts chasing is like everyday life some people chase this demons some other ones those demons,
but if i would have to live of charts-hihi-i would starve that is as much as i care for charts.
some very good musicians never made it to the charts guess why?? same thing although on a different level.
but the goal remains  the same aeons before us and aeons after us.
get on top,use your elbows,sh..on the neighbour all that c...!!

see ya guys.

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