I haven't been on this site for too long. I uploaded 10 cars in the last month or so. I try to upload quality over quantity and I try to have creativity in the rides I make. Its a sure thing that we are limited in the vinyl choice, that means that there is a certain limit to what can be done, some tuners use a lot of creativity in their rides where others seem to produce rides just to get volume.
I try to be as creative as I can with my rides. It sometimes works and sometimes it dosen't creativity, looks and taste can't be discussed but dosent mean everybody will like it.
I upload cars for my own personal pleasure, its fun to get comments, I wish my rides gets good ratings but I can understand when I dont get good ones and dont bother with it.
BUT...
Sometimes I feel that the great rides sometimes get silenced by the sheer number of users uploading cars only to upload them. Some of the cars dont please me, Its my own personal taste, I feel like there is a underwritted style that people seem to prefer here. Some rides that are , in my opinion, a bit un-creative, get uber ratings cuz it follows the classic style that seems to be liked overall here. e.g.: classic tuner style with stripes and tons of decals.
I also red a lot on people talking about downvoters, that's bad and should't be there.
So some people create great rides but if they dont fit the style it dosent get good ratings. We should be creative with the ride producing but we should also be open minded when reviewing rides.
Also I felt that the raxle challenged silenced the showroom the week before the challenge voting started. Lot less cars uploaded. I also think its natural that people produce less rides since we naturallly loose interest in that type of things as time goes by. So I say a showroom slowdown is to be expected. Maybe all better tuners will stay and the lesser quality rides will gradually leave the showroom. Maybe its just for the better.
I have a life and I can't concentrate on creating rides galore and I also need to "feel" the ride I'm creating in order to create and upload a quality ride. Sometimes I can be a month without proper inspiration to create rides, so I say that you can't be rushed to create ride it has to come naturally or its going to become improvisation on a single theme.
I say if you want to keep the showroom active I say that you could create proposed themes, without it being a challenge, having a set crew of site staff members that wiould be a voting pannel that could regulate the tops in the showroom, cuz it is not right to have rides with 30 ratings being on top of some of the great rides here. That crew could have ratings that would count more that standard ratings.
And finally, elitism has to be at zero. Not that I saw too much here, compared to other boards I participate in, but I feel there is a tiny bit of that here and some "nothing special" rides get ultra ratings while creative and different rides created by casual members dong get good ratings.
Its my 2 cents.
BTW dont go and think Im frustrated about my rides not getting ratings, My rides do get good ratings and one of them has been featured in the SRW so Its not about me or my rides, Its something I saw in general happening here.
its my opinion and I respect it
