SparkleMade
commented
7 years ago +1 stabby's observation.
My thought is there seems to be a repeat of the same types of items on the community hub page. As though the way to get a spot is through maintaining a certain vote percent, but only facemasks pistols and chest plates are simple enough to regularly get a better vote than more obscure items, like the SAR, hammer, thompson.
Some people are biased towards certain weapons in general and down vote every skin of that type because they don't like the item, some items are so particular no matter how you skin it half the people are going to down vote it, and some items just have bad thumbnails and are destined to receive more down votes.
Right now there are 2 chest plates of the same variant a face mask and SAP in the top section, which is pretty typical. Anecdote, but my Salt Shaker was featured top for days on the community hub, it was a pistol.
I am vexed. Good and truly vexed. There was a time, a couple of months back, where I would post an item and, if it did well, it'd climb up the community page and get some views, some upvotes, and net me some followers. If it was crap, it was banished to oblivion deservedly. That's how it should be!
Obviously this sort of "feedback" is the reason many artists make things because it's nice to create stuff and share it with others. If we don't get picked for the store, there was the consolation prize of some nice community exposure (which for emotionally needy people like myself is sweet, sweet ambrosia). However, over the last couple of months, I cannot, for the life of me, get a Workshop Item on the community page no matter how well it does initially. I see a lot of freshly uploaded items mixed in with a lot of items from the same small group of creators week-after-week (oftentimes several of their items scattered all about). What's odd is that if I submit a piece of community art (a render of one of my items or something) it WILL show up, but way down the page where no one looks. lol.
Did something change? It no longer seems to showcase the popular workshop submissions based on actual votes/comments/favorites and it's really bumming me out. I don't complain about anything so please don't take this as "the salty tears of an old man" (as my wife often says) - I just wonder if there's something up with the algorithm that populates the page as it seems to no longer reflect what is actually "popular" (at least initially - the posts that do show up BECOME popular for obvious reasons), and seems to favor some creators and entirely omit others.