Design Oatmeal a Home: Voting!

October 31, 2016, 6:51 pm by

Come on, Subeta. Some quality control please. At least with the old voting system, we could scroll past the shitty no-effort entries.

October 31, 2016, 6:46 pm by

Oh my, so much complaining about quality here

Hope my messy sketch didn't get y'all too mad...

October 31, 2016, 6:46 pm by

Sorry sorry I was too specific in my last post! :(

October 31, 2016, 6:46 pm by

a goat would eat 98% of these homes :p

October 31, 2016, 6:44 pm by

I did the same thing. There were quite a few "scribbly" ones that I upvoted because the concept was good. I also downvoted some (a lot) that would be considered esthetically pleasing, but the effort wasn't more than a basic square and a triangle.

October 31, 2016, 6:43 pm by

Just voted on them all! I love seeing the variety of art styles and the creativity. c: There are some really cute entries in there!! I really hope the order of the entries was switched up for everyone, because I definitely became harsher as I got through more and more entries.

October 31, 2016, 6:41 pm by

Even in anonymous contests, please remember to follow the community guidelines and our no targeting rule! Please don't call out specific entries as bad or lazy, think of how you'd feel if you read that about your own.

October 31, 2016, 6:41 pm by

You've voted on every single entry, good job! Seems as though there aren't that many entries after all.

However, SO MANY CASTLES. Why would a goat want to live in a castle? I just ????????

October 31, 2016, 6:41 pm by

I can't speak for others, but if it was poorly drawn but still had a good concept or looked well thought out, I still voted it up. But if it was JUST a stick house, or a photo of an oatmeal canister, or a photo of someone's rabbit hutch or whatever, it got a thumbs down. I want to vote for effort and concept, not "oop, got 3 minutes before the deadline, better whip up a square with a triangle on top"

October 31, 2016, 6:40 pm by

Woo! I voted for them all. In the end it's not too incredibly long and there were some really cute entries. I worry about having entries cut based on "effort" because that's a hard thing to judge...I think it's totally fair to cut entries that don't meet the contest rules or are completely unrelated though.

October 31, 2016, 6:39 pm by

Maybe another system to try would be something kind of like this one, except instead of just voting up or down we could give a rating of like 1-10 or 1-5 or something. That way people who put in effort could still get some votes, and people who went above and beyond could get like max votes. IDK but I think it would be better than just a yes or no for each one.

October 31, 2016, 6:37 pm by

Full disclosure, I'm one of the stick-house people. I'm kind of overjoyed to see so many other crappy stick figure houses, because I figure I can vote on the kind of house I really want Oatmeal to have based on the description and the general idea, not the quality of the art, because I really want Oatmeal to have an awesome place but don't have the skills to show it properly and others obviously don't either.

I could simply choose not to participate in any art-based contest ever, since people clearly don't want to see art like mine ever, but I like to participate sometimes.

I mean, judge on art quality if you want, that's fine, but I thought some of the previous contest complaints were precisely because it was all about art quality and people felt that was unfair. I'm just really liking all the variation in art styles and the ideas people have. This is pretty fun.

October 31, 2016, 6:37 pm by

Certainly a range of ideas. A few I saw I wanted to share with Oatmeal. Computer was acting up and multi errors kept appearing. I think there should have been some elimination of entries by staff tho.

October 31, 2016, 6:35 pm by

I'm voting up things that took actual effort but I wish I could give a double thumbs up to my favorites

October 31, 2016, 6:32 pm by

I vastly overestimated the amount of effort the average entry would take. I wish I hadn't been so intimidated - I should have entered.

October 31, 2016, 6:29 pm by

I agree that there should have been some sorting done by staff in the beginning because there were lots of half-heartedly done entries and I'd love an option to re-view all entries (and maybe also change votes).

October 31, 2016, 6:27 pm by

I feel like there needs to be a 'back' button~

October 31, 2016, 6:24 pm by

I've already voted on all of the entries (or so it says) and it didn't even feel like it was as many as 200. It's probably a lot, I didn't count. But not that many I think.

October 31, 2016, 6:24 pm by

Two more things I need to say:

1: Is there any reason why our own entry shows up? Wasn't expecting mine to show up there but I guess I should have expected from the last contest. 2: Oh, thank goodness! At least I now know my entry isn't the one blowing up the page.

lmao

October 31, 2016, 6:22 pm by

Ok wow, so a lot of clip art images. I didn't think that was allowed? I feel like my actual drawing can't compete/get voted on fairly. Not that I'm already being a sore-loser, but as an artist (photography and art historian) this is just sad. Ack. Voting for who I think deserves it at this point. Found 3 fairly AMAZING drawings that have taken the time to draw Oatmeal a beautiful house.

October 31, 2016, 6:22 pm by

some people signed, some sent images from the internet...

And we can see the same entry more than once O_o This new system is a bit messy

October 31, 2016, 6:19 pm by

Man there's way too many entries to sift through and vote on. Should be just the best 200.

October 31, 2016, 6:18 pm by

I like them all so far! My favorite is the upside down yellow bowl. So cute! I don't know if I'll be able to downvote...we'll see. Sowwy!

October 31, 2016, 6:17 pm by

Apparently some people signed their entries? Aren't all pieces supposed to be anonymized? A 'report' button would be good for next time, or I hope staff at least scrutinizes what wins to find such details and disqualify.

October 31, 2016, 6:16 pm by

Hey everyone...

Reminder to vote for who you think should win - Don't just upvote entries for being legitimate entries. I know it feels like you should upvote anything where the person put in effort just because of all the less serious entries that are showing up. But, if we all do that, it kinda defeats the purpose of voting at all - where the point of voting is to try and see which one is the best, not just sort serious entries from nonserious ones.

October 31, 2016, 6:16 pm by

I really should have entered with my idea. Better than a goddamn bowl of oatmeal or a flower. >.> I'm not judging anyone for their drawing skills. Just put in some thought and effort holy crap. "Here's my entry. It's a square." Next time, please don't.

October 31, 2016, 6:15 pm by

Man, a surprising number of these really do have signatures or links to personal blogs. Some real cute ones in there though!

October 31, 2016, 6:14 pm by

I liked this set up more. I hope the order is random for everyone, because NGL, the oatmeal jokes, endless plain barns, and Hobbit holes I saw first benefited from not being the tenth one.

I did very much enjoy the amount of effort people put into them, though. I think my favorite is the one that outlined a whole water heating system, just because the effort was A+. :D

October 31, 2016, 6:13 pm by

I haven't looked at the entries, just reading comments. We'll see how this voting system goes. Good luck everyone!

October 31, 2016, 6:12 pm by

You've voted on every single entry, good job!

feels like a responsible Subeta citizen :D

October 31, 2016, 6:12 pm by

Although I do agree it would have been nice to take out some of the ones that aren't even art. My attempt was pretty bad and kind of just for the participation, but at least it was a drawing and not just a stock image. lol

October 31, 2016, 6:11 pm by

"You've voted on every single entry, good job!" lol I never knew it would happen so fast

I saw a couple of really good ones in there, good luck to everyone! :3 no doubt Oatmeal will get a great home!

October 31, 2016, 6:10 pm by

Some of these are really cute! Good job to everyone who came up with the really detailed and pretty things.

I actually like this system, it's kind of nice to be looking through the pictures and suddenly get one that is super good. Like a surprise in the middle of all of the "meh" kind of ones.

There are a lot to go through though, but at least we have two weeks to vote. I can probably get through them all if I do a bit each day.

October 31, 2016, 6:09 pm by

Way too many ridiculous entries.

Good luck to all tho.

October 31, 2016, 6:09 pm by

its kinda sad im finding myself downvoting more than i am upvoting. i feel like with the sheer amount of time everyone's had there shouldve been, idk, more substance to a good 75% of these than just 'lol quaker oats '[which i found amusing but after like 4 it lost its charm, and just sorta started feeling like it was the 'go to' entry lmao.... ] and 'gimmie participation prize plz and thank' like. yikes?

October 31, 2016, 6:08 pm by

Oh my. I agree with the others, there really needs to be a vetting before we can vote. I was going to ask if we were going to get a gallery (still haven't for the last contest unless I missed it) but after seeing a few "in for the entry prize" and a couple of copy /paste of (stolen) stock images, maybe we don't need a gallery. :|

October 31, 2016, 6:07 pm by

I'm in a college level drawing course and my teacher doesn't teach us how to draw so I had to wing it and go with my old drawing skills to enter for cute little Oatmeal <3 This was a fun event! I'm going to start looking at images now!

October 31, 2016, 6:01 pm by

Found the stretched one. Ticketing it. I should have started counting when I started skipping, but I didn't :/ There are a LOT for anyone asking.

October 31, 2016, 5:59 pm by

I really don't like this system which is just boring at possible and I think a pre-selection should have been done. Five seconds flat scribble sketches or lazy photoshop shouldn't be valable entries. My entry is humble but I still spend some hours on it, like other people did and seeing this really turn me off to even try to browse among these entries.

October 31, 2016, 5:59 pm by

holy heck some of these are super lazy/completely unrelated furiously upvoting everyone who actually designed a home and not a rectangle with stock photos scattered on it concept: give us a "flag entry as unrelated" button so the staff don't have to sift through them all

October 31, 2016, 5:57 pm by

picture of a flower? hey at least it's not a picture of a copyrighted quaker oats, I mean is that entry for real? while I wish there was a vetting process, I'm getting a good amount of laughs in, so I guess I'm not too bothered

October 31, 2016, 5:56 pm by

i love how theres a dozen quaker oats container entries

October 31, 2016, 5:55 pm by

I skipped all of them (to get a sense of what all there was to pick from) at first and def saw 1 duplicate. Were those checked for? It was hand drawn, not a coincidence. Picture identical, description slightly different.

October 31, 2016, 5:55 pm by

Loving a lot of these entries! Unfortunately, like Tonks said, there are a lot of ones that you can tell people didn't put effort in...at all. I've seen a lot of clip art, sketch-overs, unrelated images, stolen art, things like that. I'm voting for the ones that I know people put time and effort in, having nothing to do with artistic ability.

October 31, 2016, 5:54 pm by

I am loving this contest and while my entry may appear to some as though I didn't try, trust me it was the best I could do while feeling ill.

For me it was just the fact that I had a good time, and I wanted to pay tribute to out beloved Oatmeal as best I could.

Good luck to everyone, there are some lovely entries.

October 31, 2016, 5:52 pm by

Gave up after few dozens. Some sign we're getting close to seeing all of them would be appreciated. And agreeing with some opinions here - few lines and a slab of color done in MS Paint in 30 seconds shouldn't count as valid entry.

October 31, 2016, 5:52 pm by

ok I know the prizes for this one is "meh" but can I ask for a pre-vote round before the finalist are voted for?

You don't have to be an artist but come one, some of these are just ridiculous! I came across not one but THREE that looked like a house stick figure.... IN PENCIL!!!! you couldn't even be bothered to draw a tree with that?! seriously?

Also the bowl of oatmeal house was cute the first time I saw it. not so much the second time and as I write this here comes a third....

October 31, 2016, 5:52 pm by

Really agree that there should be a vetting process and/or stricter guidelines next time a contest like this happens. I imagine a lot of people aren't even going through all the entries because there are SO many that are stock images, halfhearted rectangles, or just completely unrelated

October 31, 2016, 5:51 pm by

I agree that entries that aren't on topic shouldn't be accepted. Other than that I find even the ones with little effort amusing, sometimes they make some humorous quips.

October 31, 2016, 5:49 pm by

While it's amusing to see things like the stock photo of a flower, it really isn't fair at all if those submitters get the same participation prize. It's not fair to those of us who put time and effort into our entries. I second that staff should go through the entries and remove the ones that show obvious lack of effort or are completely off-topic (like the flower photo). I don't think the badly drawn ones should be removed because it was a design contest, and not everyone can draw well. But I really don't understand how that flower photo is even here, or things like the poorly drawn entry with absolutely no design to it that just says "Goat House".

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