Pet Spotlight Changes
Hey, pet lovers of Subeta!
We've decided to make a small change to the pet spotlight! Instead of the pet spotlight being every night, it will now be three times a week. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a pet will be chosen from the accepted pets to be the featured pet on-site. We will be testing this new schedule out for a while, so get out there and work on your pets - there's still plenty of opportunities to win!
Posted by SubetaTeam
Cut by -80% my chance of winning the Spotlight in the month of Dec.
Damn. I wanted it to win in Dec .. for .. the whole theme purpose.
Damn. I wanted it to win in Dec .. for .. the whole theme purpose.
I found a link that seems useful to what you're trying to do, instead of cutting here and cutting there till there's not much left. I am posting this link, if I am not allowed please give me a verbal warning, I'll understand.
http://diythemes.com/thesis/improve-website-pagespeed/
http://diythemes.com/thesis/improve-website-pagespeed/
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Everyone loves the word diversity, every sentence with the word diversity is coolThis change is going to help give the queue/winners a bit more diversity.
Ii have no clue how this change has anything to do with that though. Less winners = more diversity ? xD
:/ i feel like i'll have even less chance of ever winning once now that there's less winners weekly
gets slapped away
gets slapped away
Well, I hope this leads to greater diversity in pet owners who win, not saying the winners didn't earn their wins, they did, but it's disheartening to see a pet you nominate again and again never make it.
Really do not like.... I'll give it a chance, but I doubt I'll be changing my mind any time soon
If there's not enough pets in the queue, then maybe some changes like the suggested tick-box rejection reasons might encourage more entries, rather than there just being less spotlights in the week?
If there's not enough pets in the queue, then maybe some changes like the suggested tick-box rejection reasons might encourage more entries, rather than there just being less spotlights in the week?
I agree that it seems like too much to have a pet spotlight every single day... But I also have never had a pet nominated. Interested to see...
7 days a week to 3 days a week. That's 4x the amount of an already-too-long time to wait to see if you need to wait another two weeks just to make it to the final queue and do some more waiting. Really? :l If you're going to do this, please lessen the amount of time it takes to be re-accepted into the queue. The amount of time users with perfected, winner-quality pets will have to wait is, at this point, utterly ridiculous.
This in the combination with it being ridiculously hard to get accepted and with a two week cool down to get nominated again? Not cool
Interesting. No biggie for me. I've been keeping my pets outta the queue until I can polish them up for awhile now... and not being quite as active as before the baby arrived, it isn't exactly a priority. Maybe with scaling back like that, they may be able to give rejection info? Who knows... that would def be nice for sure.
@Jessi
Okay, so who has the magical 'add hours to the day' machine? I need one.... lol.
@Jessi
Okay, so who has the magical 'add hours to the day' machine? I need one.... lol.
I'll ponder my pets profiles some more but the whole process seems discouraging. /sigh
...some day...
...some day...
Don't like this. Why does it need to be a thing? It'll just make those achievements take years to accomplish.
Umm @Kurumii, I don't think subeta could afford to just higher a few new people or take other's away from their current responsibilities just for the pet spotlight, which clearly already works, just not that well on the rejection side. even if they could afford it monetarily, it makes absolutely no sense business-wise o.O
I'm indifferent in this matter. Never been a huge Spotlight person. (although I do admit I would eventually like to figure out a story and profile for all 26+ of my pets....)
I like this. It makes winning seem less... Common. In my opinion, a daily winner kind of diminishes the importance of winning in the first place. It would only be a matter of time before every pet won the spotlight. ;P
While I don't like this change, but I somewhat understand it.
I'm still upset there's no notification for your pets being rejected. >_>
I'm still upset there's no notification for your pets being rejected. >_>
What about the possibility of starting a new section of staff or having a few devoted people for that by itself? It seems pretty reasonable considering all the things necessary to critique a profile, might also help with the number of submissions, since people would get feedback faster. I'm not sure how many staff or how the responsibilities work, but if possible I think it might be helpful ^^
Hmmm, interesting...
Well im not creative and im a totally fail for code the page for pet x.o
Well im not creative and im a totally fail for code the page for pet x.o
Until then, like Freak said, at least those who do win will get to enjoy the spotlight for another day. :) You winners deserve it. It is damn hard getting that win. Haha.
it makes sense if the queue is low, but if it'd been full, i wouldn't like this idea at all. of course, this comes from someone trying to win the pet spotlight. i enjoyed seeing them every night, but i guess this will have to do.
and i agree with the others saying notifications should be given when a pet is removed. i would imagine that once i enter, it will get frustrating very quickly waiting and waiting.
and i agree with the others saying notifications should be given when a pet is removed. i would imagine that once i enter, it will get frustrating very quickly waiting and waiting.
I like the idea, I don't really plan on entering my pets ever (I'm lazy like that) but if I did I would rather my pet be spotlighted for longer than 24 hours... Show him off for as long as possible.
Jessi
STAFF
Giving reasons why your pet was rejected may be something we will do in the future, but right now there's just not enough hours in the day :( Sorry, guys.
@metal
Potions/elixirs/zapping, profiles, treasure, battling, spotlight, some games, feeding and playing with (if you don't use the resort), roleplaying in the forum (if you enjoy that), etc. There's plenty to do.
But no, you'll keep being snarky and rude about everything with no legitimate complaints, because that's what you actually do on this site.
Potions/elixirs/zapping, profiles, treasure, battling, spotlight, some games, feeding and playing with (if you don't use the resort), roleplaying in the forum (if you enjoy that), etc. There's plenty to do.
But no, you'll keep being snarky and rude about everything with no legitimate complaints, because that's what you actually do on this site.
maybe just a tiny notification in your event box giving the reason for your rejection, given by the judge who rejected you from the queue. example:
"Your Pet ____ Not Accepted Into Spotlight!
Clashing colors, story too short."
literally that would be worlds better than quietly removing the nominated text after weeks of waiting to see if your pet will show up in the news.
"Your Pet ____ Not Accepted Into Spotlight!
Clashing colors, story too short."
literally that would be worlds better than quietly removing the nominated text after weeks of waiting to see if your pet will show up in the news.
It would be so wonderful to know WHY your pet is rejected instead of it just being so. The people in the Pet Spotlight threads are sooo helpful trying to guess why your pet may have been rejected. I have received so much help from these guys. But even they are still just guessing. You can do all of the things suggested and it may still be something else. And you just have to re-enter the pet again, and then it needs to be looked at AGAIN just to be rejected... again. It is so discouraging.
I'm sort of amazed that there are so few pets in the queue, have that many people won already, or is subeta just having trouble staying up to par o.O Well I guess this is a pretty big motivator for me to actually get to work on my pets, not enough to make me actually do it, but it's a push in the right direction XD.
"waiting weeks only to have the "nominated!" notification removed is really crappy tbh. it would be so nice to know why you're rejected."
PLEASE, please, please a thousand times.
PLEASE, please, please a thousand times.
if we're doing this (making the process of winning the trophy harder/more drawn out when it's already both of those things to begin with) can we work on a way to be notified if we're rejected from the queue? waiting weeks only to have the "nominated!" notification removed is really crappy tbh. it would be so nice to know why you're rejected.
I much prefer having it just a few times a week but this is coming from someone who has no interest of the pet spotlight atm lol
Hum... Interesting change... hopefully it doesn't make it too much harder to win if/when I ever get my other pets besides Tornadic finished x)
I don't see why people are complaining? It's not really a big deal. I never liked having spotlight winners every single night, so this is nice.
Sounds good to me... I still have to work on my pets to get them entered, but someday. And if entries are down, why not space it out?
OKAY i figured the queue running a bit low was the case!!
nothing against it since im pretty neutral when it comes to getting spotlight, but it just seemed like a really out of nowhere change haha
nothing against it since im pretty neutral when it comes to getting spotlight, but it just seemed like a really out of nowhere change haha
ok well if the spotlight is THAT hard up for contestants, then yeah. scaling back the number of wins might be the best way to go, until the numbers build back up (assuming they do)
Chill.