Art and Audio scouting is now instant vs invite.
For anyone not familiar, the Art and Audio Portals default to showing entries by artists who have been scouted (approved) by their fellow artists. This is done to maintain a minimum quality threshold, since both Art and Audio can be easily flooded with low-effort / low-quality entries that make it hard for casual visitors to discover artists who are making a real effort.
Scouting has traditionally resulted in an invite being sent to the artist but this leads to various levels of confusion and lack of response, so we’ve now changed it to happen instantly. Scouted artists will also receive an introductory message that hopefully explains things better than before.
When you get scouted, you gain the ability to scout other people. This ability can be revoked, however, if you exercise poor judgment with who you scout. For example, sometimes someone will get scouted and the main Art Portal listing will suddenly be filled with rough sketches or sloppy MS Paint doodles, at which point that person will be de-scouted and the person who scouted them may lose their ability to scout other people.
If you have scouted people, you will now see links to those lists on your user page, in the infobox under your level data. We opted to cap the total at “10+” because we didn’t want to make this a stat people try to maximize. The goal is quality over quantity when it comes to scouting people.
To be Art scouted, you traditionally need to have uploaded at least four pieces of art, since it’s easier to catch art thieves that way. We’ve now added the ability for Art mods to scout people with less than four pieces of art, which will be useful during events and contests when a lot of new artists show up with just one piece of art. This will help to get them aboard quickly and minimize any ongoing confusion.
Halloween Voting
Our Halloween Spooktacular entries are in and it would be greatly appreciated if you could vote on as many as possible! The voting score doesn't determine the winners but it does help guide the judging process.
Halloween Art - Your votes help organize this list a lot!
Other News
@MindChamber has announced Robot Day will be November 26th!
There’s also an Australia Meetup on November 26th!
@itsreddqueen and @CommanderKuni are hosting an NG Cookbook Collab.
Peter the Ant Day is December 26th!
Halloween might be over but big things are brewing here at NG! I think a lot of you will be happy with the updates we have in the works for the home stretch of 2022. Thank you for your support!
