Selectable spotlight movies

[soosisti]

I've seen that you have some movies (Time Gnomes 2, Cells, Unlimited Escapism 3 etc) rotating on a certain spotbox on the frontpage. It is a good idea to rotate movies there, but why always the same ones?

Instead, could it be possible to allow us movie makers to select the movie(s) which should be on the rotation? It could be limited to premium users, recommended movies, having a certain rating or at least X amount of downloads.

Another alternative could be it that we could tag one (or more) of our own movies for the moderators to pick up for the rotation.

[DlouBent]

I dont think this would work.
Every movie needs attention, and by using a WCM promo clip your movie gets in spotlight. If it only were old movies with recommended rating no new good authors would get their chance to become in the spotlight.

[RaggokMDV]

by using a WCM promo clip your movie gets in spotlight

FALSE - I used a promo clip and my last movie never made the spotlight. It only increases your chance of being put in the spotlight box. Not making the spotlight box is a death sentence for any movie where there is not enough name recognition of the author.

[DlouBent]

"Guranteed chance of getting in spotlight" not false. If there is too many movies in the spotlight allready (if you submit too late), you might wait to next day. If you forgot to upload a picture your movie WONT get in spotlight.

[Dwârv]

Not quite sure, but I think RaggokMDV is right. I see many movies with promoclips included that do not make it into the spotlight. Not that I judge on that. Maybe the important word is "...garanteed chance of..."..?

Regards

Dwârv

[RaggokMDV]

If there is too many movies in the spotlight allready (if you submit too late)

The promo clip is no guarantee... "guaranteed chance" - LOL, that is some pretty l33t doublespeak at it's best right there. And yes, I submitted a picture. It's on my moviepage. I've submitted 9 movies here, I think I know what's what.

A good portion of the time my movie was moving down the recently submitted list they were cycling movies that were over a month old in the featured box. Care to try to explain that?

[Terwilliger]

There are more than 4 movies that qualify for the spotlight, but the system chooses the top 4 and puts them there for a day.

I'm not 100% sure on this but the system is made so that it picks movies that have the promo material and have a high rating. The spotlight position only lasts for a day, I think.

[RaggokMDV]

My clip had a promo and a rating that hovered from around 4.0 to 4.3, with downraters. There were clips in the featured box that had < 3.0 ratings while my movie was slowly given the death sentence.

I'm not 100% sure on this but the system is made so that it picks movies that have the promo material and have a high rating

If that is the case then the "system" is broken so badly in such a way as to look like personal bias.

[Dwârv]

Don't forget, RaggokMDV, sometimes the low rating comes after the spotlight (if not because of it, but thats another story).
And downraters who have fun in downrating for no good reason you should report straight away. This is the only way to keep this rating system halfway real and clean.
Show no mercy, make no prisoners.

Regards

Dwârv

[RaggokMDV]

Dwarv, I literally saw a movie go up in the featured box not less than 10 minutes after it became available while my movie had been dropping down the recently released list for 2 days already.

That movie happened to do VERY badly. How was it judged a "top" movie when no one had even been able to rate it at all?

The decision is made by humans not machine. Machines don't show bias.

[mortalseraphim]

Sometimes movies are put in the spotlight, but do poorly because of bias. Think about "I'm a Shaman", think about how many people rated it 1/1/1/1. How was the A/V quality of I'm a Shaman a "1"? How was the creativity a "1"? You'd have to be crazy to truly believe it was a 1 in creativity and A/V quality, and probably editing as well. Honestly, I'm a Shaman was downvoted because of bias, and probably did deserve spotlight.