I came across this discussion and although I don't have that many ideas currently, I would like to share my point of view. I've joined the Nexus in 2010 and have been posting images since 2013. I'm not the most talented screen-archer and I do feel myself that I post too many portraits, haha, but there's definitely been some things that I've noticed in these last 3 years. As many people have already mentioned, being very social and/or active gives you a big advantage over other people. I was always a 'loner' and just posted shots for the fun of it. I never even saw my shots as 'art' until some people told me they liked my art. It' completely changed my point of view. I have always been a bit competitive and I really wanted to reach the 'magic Top Images section'. To this day, however, I have never reached it even once, haha. I got really pissed a few times seeing that the same people got into the Top Images with the most simple, and dare I say it, ugly shots I had ever seen. It all came back to the fact that this person was just very active and it didn't matter what he uploaded, people endorsed it immediately, because he endorsed them. As the competitive person I was back then, I couldn't stand this and stopped posting a few times. Even rethinking if I should stay on the site. Now, a long time later, my whole mindset has changed. I'm no longer competitive and have actually (very recently) started commenting more and being more active. I did endorse a lot back in the days but never really commented on anything. Now I do. This change, for me, made sharing images a lot more fun again. And, funny enough, me being more active gave me more endorsements. I now wonder how many actually liked the images instead of just auto endorsing my shots because I endorsed theirs. Although I am no longer in a competitive mindset, I do feel the Top Images section could offer something to the site/community. Be it for the competitive people or for the people who like to see shots that have been well appreciated, I feel it's not the worst thing out there. It just needs a simple change. The decay system tetrodoxin posted is a good start, however, I do feel it's also a good solution to, as mentioned before, limit it to 1 set per person, for either a month or 3 weeks. This will keep the people happy that are taking this a bit more 'serious' and will also bring more variety to the Top Images. To bring even more variety, why not use the image 'tags' as their own section of Top Images. Right now there are a bit too many, but something like 'Story', 'Funny', 'Portrait' and/or 'Landscape'. I feel it would be nice to see top images in these sections aswell. Because, as most people probably know, a beautiful landscape shot will get crushed by the first person that posts a very well endowed female in skimpy armor. :P So, yeah, that's my current opinion about the Top Images section in general. The overhaul that tetrodoxin showed looks very promising, though. I could definitely support that! Anyway, I think it's extremely important, as a community, to send out a positive attitude to newer members/screen-archers. Constructive criticism should definitely be possible, but, like jim_uk mentioned, some people really need to be reminded what constructive criticism actually is. It might be a good idea to make a nice section for that aswell in the Nexus Wiki. Speaking about that, make the Nexus Wiki a bit more relevant by placing a link where people would actually see it. I also didn't know there was a Nexus Wiki until I read this discussion! Finally, my last 'complaint' would be the 'adult' tag. Right now it's simply way too weird and vague. I had no single clue what it meant other than that I was not allowed to post nude shots (which I wasn't planning on doing). I always thought that, if you clicked the adult tag, your pictures would be placed in the supporter section where I wouldn't be able to see them anymore (since I'm currently not a 'supporter'). This definitely needs to be better explained. This was coming from someone who is posting shots for the past 3 years. I wonder what a new user would think, haha. However, maybe I'm just stupid, who knows! All in all, I thought I'd throw in my opinion. I've been enjoying the image share a lot and lately even more than usual, despite the current problems. I would love to see it grow into something better again.
