xin chào guys!
I have been active on the OTH spot for about 6 months now, and I have noticed some things that have been greatly bugging me and getting worse and worse bởi every passing day.
I don't know if this is classified as a rant hoặc what, but this spot has become some sort of a war zone, where everyone always seems to be fighting.
Here are some of the main issues I have noticed that have been plaguing this spot for quite some time:
-Ratings & Cheating: Ratings have been getting ridiculous! I was looking through the video and người hâm mộ art/photos section and I was stunned to see how many really good pictures were rated 3 stars hoặc worse 1 ngôi sao (these are pictures with good tag and credit). Come on people, we can be a little bit mature. When bạn rate something, you're not rating the person who uploaded hoặc the character the image/video is portraying. You're rating its quality! It's not fair that the person who is uploading all that stuff and spending time on it gets to suffer just because bạn have a grudge against him/her hoặc a certain character. So please try and rate fairly whether its a Peyton biểu tượng hoặc a Brooke biểu tượng hoặc a Leyton biểu tượng hoặc a Brucas icon...it doesn't matter how much bạn hate the character hoặc the ship, if the biểu tượng deserves a 5 ngôi sao rating give it a 5 ngôi sao rating!
A couples of months ago, we had this rating argument escalate to the point where a couple of One cây đồi núi, hill những người hâm mộ were banned from fanpop, and we don't need a repeat of that experience.
The complete opposite of low/unfair ratings is also true. We have some items being extremely overrated. For example, some các biểu tượng have 5 5 ngôi sao ratings while some just on the tiếp theo page (or even on the same page) have none. I mean wth? If 5 people can rate half a page of icons, then I am pretty sure they can rate the rest of the page as well. Getting a medal means nothing if bạn cheat to get it. I know a lot of people here, who try to rate as much as possible, so people don't have to find other means to get their stuff rated. So please just be patient. I find it completely ridiculous when some people with like 400 pictures and 50 video have a fanatic here while some people with like 3000 pictures and 300 video just have a die hard. How is that fair? So please guys, be patient, ratings and huy chương will come, but everyone needs a fair shot at them.
And lastly, while we are on the ratings topic...please rate people! It is very disheartening to see pictures with 20 các lượt xem hoặc something and no ratings. hoặc worse, pictures on which people have left các bình luận on and haven't bothered to rate. It takes 2 giây to rate something, and if bạn can click on it to see it, bạn can make one extra click to rate it. Proper and fair ratings are going to make everybody very happy, and hopefully put an end to this constant rating drama!
-Repetition: Another big issue is repetition, which is most usually seen in các biểu tượng and picks.
First, icons. We have thêm than 180,000 các biểu tượng on this spot. That number in itself should scare bạn a little...lol! I know we have a huge người hâm mộ base, and almost 150 episodes, but I don't think that even that account for 180,000+ icons. Repeated các biểu tượng are extremely annoying and its not fair to the user who found them and đã đăng them first. I know that sometimes its hard to identify if an biểu tượng is repeated hoặc not, so if it happens once hoặc twice its okay, but if its becomes a habit then it becomes annoying. We don't want to see the same các biểu tượng again and again, and we definitely don't want to rate the same content again and again either (This is another reason that puts a lot of people off ratings). So if you're not sure if something is repeated hoặc not, go back a couple of pages and see if the stuff bạn want to add is already there hoặc not, unless of course you're the original creator of the material, hoặc bạn found it on livejournal as soon as the user uploaded them there!
Most of us get our stuff from livejournal, and usually if the material is a ngày hoặc 2 old there, there's a high chance that its been uploaded here (You will be surprised at how fast things from livejournal are uploaded here!). So, please check if you're unsure if you're repeating an icon, especially if there are a whole bunch of them. I mean how would bạn feel if bạn went through the whole process of uploading like 50 icons, and the tiếp theo ngày someone uploaded the same 50 icons. Not only does it push back the originally added stuff it also deters ratings.
A good thing that I have noticed around here about repeats is that whenever someone does đăng tải stuff that has been added before, a lot of users have started to point that out. I don't mind that in the slightest, and it shouldn't be seen as a diss hoặc an attack, because it just prevents future repetition from the same user.
Next, repeated picks. I think this a much bigger issue, and has been causing a lot of hostility from the other fans. The bottom line, we don't want to answer the same blasted Brucas vs. Peyton hoặc Brooke vs. Peyton pick again and again. It doesn't matter how many times this câu hỏi asked, hoặc how many different ways bạn word it, the các câu trả lời are not going to change. Now repeated picks are just a ploy to start arguments and its just getting ridiculous. bạn might be new, and curious to see how many people prefer Brucas over Peyton hoặc vice-versa, all bạn have to do is put Brucas vs. Leyton and about 50 người hâm mộ pick các câu hỏi will come up, and bạn can analyze the results to your heart's desire. This goes to any other pick as well. If bạn think that a câu hỏi bạn want to put up might be a repeat, please use the tìm kiếm engine...its there for a reason, and the one một phút bạn will spend searching up that one câu hỏi will save bạn a lot of sarcastic/angry các bình luận from những người hâm mộ who have seen the same pick a billion times. So it's a win/win situation for all =)
-Bashing: And finally the con voi sized issue this spot has been dealing with for a while now- Bashing. Guys I don't know if bạn have noticed hoặc not, but this is the One cây Hill TV hiển thị spot which includes ALL the character and shippings of the show. Obviously no one is going to agree with every character/ship, and bạn can't expect everyone to have the same opinion either, but that doesn't mean that bạn have to bite off a person's head if they don't ship the same ship as you, hoặc agree with bạn on a certain topic. I am NOT pointing ANY fingers here, so don't think while đọc this that oh my god she is talking about me, hoặc she is targeting me, hoặc something. I am talking about and issue this spot has been facing as a whole, and everyone is in one way hoặc another responsible for it. I know there are a couple peacemakers out there, but their voices are usually drowned bởi the constant debates, arguments and bickerings. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and honestly you're not going to change anyone's opinion bởi swearing at them hoặc calling their thoughts and ideas as wrongs. There is a reason they are called opinions guys,because there is no right and wrong between them, its based on your personal preference, and who are bạn to call someone's preference "wrong" hoặc "disgusting"?
There has been so much animosity in the spot lately, and that's a huge reason for the lack of activity in this spot, because seriously nobody wants to be in an environment where their opinions and các bình luận are constantly dissed bởi other people. The past couple of months have been the worst in my opinion, because during that time, EVERY single pick somehow became an argument between Brucas and Leyton, and sometimes it wasn't even relevant to the topic. The pick that stand out the most as I talk about this, is the "Are bạn excited for Season 7?" My god a simple câu hỏi like that turned into a 3 page war. Another example would be the whole fiasco we had while picking the new spot banner. That was just wow...it was just a banner for god's sake, it really didn't need to turn into WW3 like it did! I think sometimes we forget that the people we are dissing are real human beings with feelings. We really need to put a stop to all this bashing and belittling because it gives the whole spot such a bad name and creates such a divide between all the fans.
We have to remember that on this spot, we are all những người hâm mộ of ONE show, and while we all have different opinions and likes/dislikes in the end it is still about One cây Hill. So please, learn to respect all the fans, bạn don't have to agree with them but bạn don't have to put down their opinions either. If everyone does a little, this spot can become great, because we honestly, truly have so many amazing people here, who care so much about the show.
So this is the end of my really LONG rant...sorry if I bored bạn all to tears, it was just something I have been thinking about for a while, and needed to get off my chest. Also, I want bạn guys to know that I was not singling out ANYONE in this whole rant hoặc whatever bạn want to call it. This is not directed to any one fan, but is something that we all need to work on just a little bit. A lot of bạn might think of me as crazy once you're done đọc this and might completely disagree with what I said, but that's okay, because after all it is my opinion and not everyone has to agree with it. But I do hope, that some of bạn will take what I đã đưa ý kiến into consideration because seriously it will make this place so much better and make fanpopping such a better experience for us all!
Thanks for đọc =)
I have been active on the OTH spot for about 6 months now, and I have noticed some things that have been greatly bugging me and getting worse and worse bởi every passing day.
I don't know if this is classified as a rant hoặc what, but this spot has become some sort of a war zone, where everyone always seems to be fighting.
Here are some of the main issues I have noticed that have been plaguing this spot for quite some time:
-Ratings & Cheating: Ratings have been getting ridiculous! I was looking through the video and người hâm mộ art/photos section and I was stunned to see how many really good pictures were rated 3 stars hoặc worse 1 ngôi sao (these are pictures with good tag and credit). Come on people, we can be a little bit mature. When bạn rate something, you're not rating the person who uploaded hoặc the character the image/video is portraying. You're rating its quality! It's not fair that the person who is uploading all that stuff and spending time on it gets to suffer just because bạn have a grudge against him/her hoặc a certain character. So please try and rate fairly whether its a Peyton biểu tượng hoặc a Brooke biểu tượng hoặc a Leyton biểu tượng hoặc a Brucas icon...it doesn't matter how much bạn hate the character hoặc the ship, if the biểu tượng deserves a 5 ngôi sao rating give it a 5 ngôi sao rating!
A couples of months ago, we had this rating argument escalate to the point where a couple of One cây đồi núi, hill những người hâm mộ were banned from fanpop, and we don't need a repeat of that experience.
The complete opposite of low/unfair ratings is also true. We have some items being extremely overrated. For example, some các biểu tượng have 5 5 ngôi sao ratings while some just on the tiếp theo page (or even on the same page) have none. I mean wth? If 5 people can rate half a page of icons, then I am pretty sure they can rate the rest of the page as well. Getting a medal means nothing if bạn cheat to get it. I know a lot of people here, who try to rate as much as possible, so people don't have to find other means to get their stuff rated. So please just be patient. I find it completely ridiculous when some people with like 400 pictures and 50 video have a fanatic here while some people with like 3000 pictures and 300 video just have a die hard. How is that fair? So please guys, be patient, ratings and huy chương will come, but everyone needs a fair shot at them.
And lastly, while we are on the ratings topic...please rate people! It is very disheartening to see pictures with 20 các lượt xem hoặc something and no ratings. hoặc worse, pictures on which people have left các bình luận on and haven't bothered to rate. It takes 2 giây to rate something, and if bạn can click on it to see it, bạn can make one extra click to rate it. Proper and fair ratings are going to make everybody very happy, and hopefully put an end to this constant rating drama!
-Repetition: Another big issue is repetition, which is most usually seen in các biểu tượng and picks.
First, icons. We have thêm than 180,000 các biểu tượng on this spot. That number in itself should scare bạn a little...lol! I know we have a huge người hâm mộ base, and almost 150 episodes, but I don't think that even that account for 180,000+ icons. Repeated các biểu tượng are extremely annoying and its not fair to the user who found them and đã đăng them first. I know that sometimes its hard to identify if an biểu tượng is repeated hoặc not, so if it happens once hoặc twice its okay, but if its becomes a habit then it becomes annoying. We don't want to see the same các biểu tượng again and again, and we definitely don't want to rate the same content again and again either (This is another reason that puts a lot of people off ratings). So if you're not sure if something is repeated hoặc not, go back a couple of pages and see if the stuff bạn want to add is already there hoặc not, unless of course you're the original creator of the material, hoặc bạn found it on livejournal as soon as the user uploaded them there!
Most of us get our stuff from livejournal, and usually if the material is a ngày hoặc 2 old there, there's a high chance that its been uploaded here (You will be surprised at how fast things from livejournal are uploaded here!). So, please check if you're unsure if you're repeating an icon, especially if there are a whole bunch of them. I mean how would bạn feel if bạn went through the whole process of uploading like 50 icons, and the tiếp theo ngày someone uploaded the same 50 icons. Not only does it push back the originally added stuff it also deters ratings.
A good thing that I have noticed around here about repeats is that whenever someone does đăng tải stuff that has been added before, a lot of users have started to point that out. I don't mind that in the slightest, and it shouldn't be seen as a diss hoặc an attack, because it just prevents future repetition from the same user.
Next, repeated picks. I think this a much bigger issue, and has been causing a lot of hostility from the other fans. The bottom line, we don't want to answer the same blasted Brucas vs. Peyton hoặc Brooke vs. Peyton pick again and again. It doesn't matter how many times this câu hỏi asked, hoặc how many different ways bạn word it, the các câu trả lời are not going to change. Now repeated picks are just a ploy to start arguments and its just getting ridiculous. bạn might be new, and curious to see how many people prefer Brucas over Peyton hoặc vice-versa, all bạn have to do is put Brucas vs. Leyton and about 50 người hâm mộ pick các câu hỏi will come up, and bạn can analyze the results to your heart's desire. This goes to any other pick as well. If bạn think that a câu hỏi bạn want to put up might be a repeat, please use the tìm kiếm engine...its there for a reason, and the one một phút bạn will spend searching up that one câu hỏi will save bạn a lot of sarcastic/angry các bình luận from những người hâm mộ who have seen the same pick a billion times. So it's a win/win situation for all =)
-Bashing: And finally the con voi sized issue this spot has been dealing with for a while now- Bashing. Guys I don't know if bạn have noticed hoặc not, but this is the One cây Hill TV hiển thị spot which includes ALL the character and shippings of the show. Obviously no one is going to agree with every character/ship, and bạn can't expect everyone to have the same opinion either, but that doesn't mean that bạn have to bite off a person's head if they don't ship the same ship as you, hoặc agree with bạn on a certain topic. I am NOT pointing ANY fingers here, so don't think while đọc this that oh my god she is talking about me, hoặc she is targeting me, hoặc something. I am talking about and issue this spot has been facing as a whole, and everyone is in one way hoặc another responsible for it. I know there are a couple peacemakers out there, but their voices are usually drowned bởi the constant debates, arguments and bickerings. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and honestly you're not going to change anyone's opinion bởi swearing at them hoặc calling their thoughts and ideas as wrongs. There is a reason they are called opinions guys,because there is no right and wrong between them, its based on your personal preference, and who are bạn to call someone's preference "wrong" hoặc "disgusting"?
There has been so much animosity in the spot lately, and that's a huge reason for the lack of activity in this spot, because seriously nobody wants to be in an environment where their opinions and các bình luận are constantly dissed bởi other people. The past couple of months have been the worst in my opinion, because during that time, EVERY single pick somehow became an argument between Brucas and Leyton, and sometimes it wasn't even relevant to the topic. The pick that stand out the most as I talk about this, is the "Are bạn excited for Season 7?" My god a simple câu hỏi like that turned into a 3 page war. Another example would be the whole fiasco we had while picking the new spot banner. That was just wow...it was just a banner for god's sake, it really didn't need to turn into WW3 like it did! I think sometimes we forget that the people we are dissing are real human beings with feelings. We really need to put a stop to all this bashing and belittling because it gives the whole spot such a bad name and creates such a divide between all the fans.
We have to remember that on this spot, we are all những người hâm mộ of ONE show, and while we all have different opinions and likes/dislikes in the end it is still about One cây Hill. So please, learn to respect all the fans, bạn don't have to agree with them but bạn don't have to put down their opinions either. If everyone does a little, this spot can become great, because we honestly, truly have so many amazing people here, who care so much about the show.
So this is the end of my really LONG rant...sorry if I bored bạn all to tears, it was just something I have been thinking about for a while, and needed to get off my chest. Also, I want bạn guys to know that I was not singling out ANYONE in this whole rant hoặc whatever bạn want to call it. This is not directed to any one fan, but is something that we all need to work on just a little bit. A lot of bạn might think of me as crazy once you're done đọc this and might completely disagree with what I said, but that's okay, because after all it is my opinion and not everyone has to agree with it. But I do hope, that some of bạn will take what I đã đưa ý kiến into consideration because seriously it will make this place so much better and make fanpopping such a better experience for us all!
Thanks for đọc =)