radishboy wrote:

No support. It would just be full of “low quality” projects

calulord wrote:

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calulord wrote:

Currently the “What the community is loving” section works by showing the twenty projects that have been loved the most in the past week. The “What the community is remixing” works the same way but instant the past week it's the past ten days and instead of loves, remixes.

But there is a problem here, which is illustrated by this story: let's say that two scratchers, one with 100 followers and the other with 200 followers both share a project of the same (objective) quality. The scratcher's with 100 followers gets 25 loves on his project in the first week they shared the project, but the scratcher with 200 followers gets 50 loves within the week they shared the project. Even though both scratchers have made equally good projects, the one with 200 followers get mores loves, due to having more followers, and thus a better chance at get in the “What the community is loving” section. This illustrates the problem that people with more followers (and just popularity in general) can get better chances at getting one the “What the community is loving/remixing” section for reason other than the quality of their projects.

So I suggest that the “What the community is loving/remixing” section works by show the twenty projects with the most loves/remixes in the past week/ten days divided by how many followers they have.

EDIT: If someone has 0 followers then they would count as someone with 1.

-ColorMaster- wrote:

calulord wrote:

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Not exactly how followers work there buddy, I have 470+ and have had only one front page (not saying that I am deserving of one, just what has happened)

calulord wrote:

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bump kilroy was here.

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-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

The point of the What the Community is Loving/Remixing rows are to show which projects have been getting the most loves/remixes. Followers are not mentioned in that description.

Besides, many people don't get followers because of their projects - on my old account, I had 100+ followers and an average of 2-3 loves per project. The only reason I even got any of those followers was because of a massive AE studio I started (don't ask). The point is, a higher follower count doesn't necessarily equate to more loves on projects. Many people do F4F and have 100s of followers who never look at their projects. And even if a user's followers all followed them because they liked the user's projects, the user still might not be receiving many loves, because their followers might've gone inactive.

So to sum up my point, no support.

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

The point of the What the Community is Loving/Remixing rows are to show which projects have been getting the most loves/remixes. Followers are not mentioned in that description.

Besides, many people don't get followers because of their projects - on my old account, I had 100+ followers and an average of 2-3 loves per project. The only reason I even got any of those followers was because of a massive AE studio I started (don't ask). The point is, a higher follower count doesn't necessarily equate to more loves on projects. Many people do F4F and have 100s of followers who never look at their projects. And even if a user's followers all followed them because they liked the user's projects, the user still might not be receiving many loves, because their followers might've gone inactive.

So to sum up my point, no support.

^ That is why I don't support.

calulord wrote:

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

The point of the What the Community is Loving/Remixing rows are to show which projects have been getting the most loves/remixes. Followers are not mentioned in that description.

Just because something is the point doesn’t mean that the point is good or that the point would be better as something else.

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

Besides, many people don't get followers because of their projects - on my old account, I had 100+ followers and an average of 2-3 loves per project. The only reason I even got any of those followers was because of a massive AE studio I started (don't ask). The point is, a higher follower count doesn't necessarily equate to more loves on projects. Many people do F4F and have 100s of followers who never look at their projects. And even if a user's followers all followed them because they liked the user's projects, the user still might not be receiving many loves, because their followers might've gone inactive.

So to sum up my point, no support.

I never said that followers equate to more loves and remixes. I’m just saying that more followers (and just popularity in general) can give certain users a better or worst chance at getting into that section for reasons other than the quality of their projects.

LionHeart70 wrote:

No support. Often users with more followers make more high-quality projects which often deserve to be top-loved or top-remixed.

LionHeart70 wrote:

Plus, more high-quality projects on the front page can lead to users getting inspiration, especially since the projects top-loved/top-remixed sections can sometimes be different than those that are featured. Often, animators/artists looking for animation memes or coloring contests might want to check top loved/remixed sections, as those sorts of projects are often there and rarely get featured.

LionHeart70 wrote:

Also, as -ShadowOfTheFuture- pointed out, users don't always get lots of followers because of their projects. My projects usually get about 2-5 loves and favorites each, but I have 792 followers currently (I don't know why, but I'm thinking it's for a few reasons; when I was newer to Scratch I used to comment on a lot of projects; I have multiple projects so maybe some of my followers just found some of them and followed me; I'm active on the forums so maybe someone just found me there; maybe some other reasons idk), so this could be unfair to users who aren't as well-known despite having a lot of followers (such as me).

LionHeart70 wrote:

The top loved/remixed sections are fine as they are. While I'm all for an option to let less-known users get popular, I don't think this is exactly what we need.