johnboyjjb
Active member
I thought mini painting was an interesting hobby but you have opened my eyes. Fornicating with fruit. Who would of thought it possible. (no links are needed to prove it is possible)
Why the decrease?
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DrEvilmonki
Active member
That sounds dangerously like you rushed out to try it! lol
This is good advice. When I first joined and started posting my stuff, I got some feedback, but not an overwhelming amount. When I saw this suggestion (in this very thread, IIRC), I tried commenting. However, being so incredibly new, I don\'t feel like I have the knowledge or the aptitude to say anything about another person\'s work, especially if it\'s a critique. I try to at least compliment people on what I like (but I still need to work on it).
However, the point to this is that by commenting on other people\'s work, albeit in somewhat small bits, I\'m getting comments on my stuff. Even if you\'re new, you can still say, \"I like this or that\".
And for some us, 18 is a distant memory.
Lemmingspawn
Member
I\'ve come to understand (and this may have already been said but hey it can be said again) that the scores are changing overall because the bar is rising.
I mean, some of the stuff coming out these days is absolutely AMAZING! And very few of these are getting higher than 9.5, well some, but not very many. It\'s testament to the fact that CMON has been helping the community develop a Godlike standard in painting, and it\'s getting harder and harder to rate minis because of the incredible levels that are being achieved.
It\'s great but at the same time disheartening for someone who once was easily achieving 8 - 8.5 but now they can only get a 7 - 7.5 and their painting is BETTER than it used to be.
Now I know this isn\'t the definitive answer, but it is one. There are other factors, like *woah baby ultra cool* issues where a model is scratchbuilt and presented that is so mindblowingly awesome that a mediocre paintjob doesn\'t pull it down much. And then there are the ones where it\'s the ultimate paintjob but the minis is just well...ordinary so it gets a lower score....
And then there\'s snipers...
I\'m not stressed about it anymore because I come to accept it as part of the logical progression of the site. The standard rises so far that 5 for a tabletop mini is getting hard to score. I\'ve seen tabletop quality going at 3-4. That\'s silly coz the MIDDLE range is tabletop ok quality, but again the tabletop standard is rising.
Lets just hope the trend doesn\'t discourage newcomers from entering the ranks of CMONers and just having a go, and we can all stand back and watch them grow and give our advice to help them along.
If the scoring trend starts to kill that, then we\'re in trouble.
I mean, some of the stuff coming out these days is absolutely AMAZING! And very few of these are getting higher than 9.5, well some, but not very many. It\'s testament to the fact that CMON has been helping the community develop a Godlike standard in painting, and it\'s getting harder and harder to rate minis because of the incredible levels that are being achieved.
It\'s great but at the same time disheartening for someone who once was easily achieving 8 - 8.5 but now they can only get a 7 - 7.5 and their painting is BETTER than it used to be.
Now I know this isn\'t the definitive answer, but it is one. There are other factors, like *woah baby ultra cool* issues where a model is scratchbuilt and presented that is so mindblowingly awesome that a mediocre paintjob doesn\'t pull it down much. And then there are the ones where it\'s the ultimate paintjob but the minis is just well...ordinary so it gets a lower score....
And then there\'s snipers...
I\'m not stressed about it anymore because I come to accept it as part of the logical progression of the site. The standard rises so far that 5 for a tabletop mini is getting hard to score. I\'ve seen tabletop quality going at 3-4. That\'s silly coz the MIDDLE range is tabletop ok quality, but again the tabletop standard is rising.
Lets just hope the trend doesn\'t discourage newcomers from entering the ranks of CMONers and just having a go, and we can all stand back and watch them grow and give our advice to help them along.
If the scoring trend starts to kill that, then we\'re in trouble.
Yeah... I\'ve been so piss drunk since that age that I don\'t remember all 2 years of it.
My view on the subject... People that whine about elitism, rigged voting, \"cmonmm\", and other sob stories about how their minis aren\'t rating as high as they think they should can go eat a sour pickle. Couple years back when I first started listing my miniatures here I was expecting to get 7s-8s and I ended up getting 5s-6s. Yeah... It\'s shocking... But instead of whining people should study and work to get better and just keep trying.
I took a 5 month break from submitting miniatures here and I fell over 100 places in overall ranking. All that means is that I get to experience the pleasure of going back up the ladder once I start painting the miniatures that deserve to put me up there.
green stuff
Active member
Definatively NO!!!
Learn to use the tool correctly, that\'s all that\'s needed. 10 is perfection, don\'t rate 9s as 10s and so on.
Avelorn
Sven Jonsson
a 10 should be from 9.500.....1 to 10 really 
You have to round off you know... Or else there would be very few minis over 9. The bounds of perfection is moved all the time.
Oh well.. this is a really old discussion you know. Maybe we should have 10 and then a \"superfly\" button. :drunk:
You have to round off you know... Or else there would be very few minis over 9. The bounds of perfection is moved all the time.Oh well.. this is a really old discussion you know. Maybe we should have 10 and then a \"superfly\" button. :drunk:
green stuff
Active member
@Sven : I\'m on the same wave length as you, it\'s just that I\'m getting bored of the \"OMG why can\'t I vote 11!!!\" comments I read here and there. And it has nothing to do with jealousy . I think that voting a 10 is special and agree that it qualifies to the [9.5-10] interval . If people learn to give 10s more sparingly, then there\'d be no use for 11+s .
. I think that voting a 10 is special and agree that it qualifies to the [9.5-10] interval . If people learn to give 10s more sparingly, then there\'d be no use for 11+s .
green stuff
Active member
In that case, sorry, I didn\'t translate correctly :redface:.
dougaderly
New member
I would be happy with no score at all if more people would leave comments under minis. Kudos to you that do!
vincegamer
Active member
I remember years ago posting the comment : \"this one goes to 11\" on a mini that totally blew me away.
I wonder what mini it was and how I would score it now.
I wonder what mini it was and how I would score it now.
