Personal Artwork/Animation
- Thread starter BCarey
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Buddy, could you make a single thread for your personal artwork, that seems to be unrelated to any existing games (at least you haven't mentioned any), and keep it all in there, instead of making a bunch of unrelated one-post threads? It's just a friendly suggestion.
Are you new to forum environment with separate subforums, threads and posts? Because it sure looks that way.
Are you new to forum environment with separate subforums, threads and posts? Because it sure looks that way.
- May 22, 2017
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Well, forums or message boards are more and better organized than Youtube, as you can see. Kind of like folders in a computer file system. It's not a popularity contest and it doesn't rely just on the search system, although there is one and everyone is encouraged to use it to find stuff or answers they are looking for, before asking questions that may be already answered hundreds of times.
You found the art sub-forum or section, that's great.
But then there are threads - each thread has a specific theme and a title that says what it is. People can follow them and post into them. Threads are linear by default, the newest post is the last post in the thread.
Threads are by default ordered by the newest post in the thread, except for the "stickies" - important threads being pinned to the top. It means that inactive threads will move slowly towards the end of the thread list until the oldest inactive ones get scrapped automatically. How long they must be inactive to be scrapped, depends on settings set by the highest members of staff (it takes several years here).
It means that if you want your personal artwork to get noticed, it would make sense to keep all your work in one single thread where you can post new pictures as often as you want. You can name your thread as "BCarey's personal artwork thread" or something like that, so people are able to find it and will understand what is in there, what it's about. Having a good and understandable thread title is important, kind of mandatory.
Or, since you are posting art from your game, you could name your thread accordingly.
You can explain in the first post of your thread (the Opening Post or the Original Post = OP) what the thread is about or who you are or whatever else you feel being important. Kind of what you did in your previous post.
That way your work can be found in one place, your thread won't be scrapped before you lose interest yourself and stop posting there, people interested can "watch" your thread (get a notification every time something is posted) and forum moderators and staff will be much happier with the lesser number of well organized threads.
Right now no one understands why are you posting these pictures or what they are about and why are you making a new thread for each of them. Since you are new to message board system, it's kind of undestandable, but if you keep creating this kind of separate threads of single images, the staff may not be as understanding and start deleting your threads.
Just look around, how other people are behaving, how other artistst are posting their work and try to follow the example.
There are 33 pages of just art threads here that you can look at.
Don't forget to get acquainted with forum rules: there are general rules for the whole F95 and some sub-forums have their own subset of more specific rules. You can even establish your own additional rules in your own thread, that are not in conflict with the forum rules. You can report people who refuse to follow the rules, so moderators and staff will deal with them and their posts.
Since you have made your own game, you could also create a thread for it in the games sub-forum, post a download link and ask the staff for a game developer tag for yourself. Make sure to follow the rules there! Every game thread (thread title) and first post must follow a certain template. You can use any of the game threads there as an example to make your own.
Welcome to F95!
You found the art sub-forum or section, that's great.
But then there are threads - each thread has a specific theme and a title that says what it is. People can follow them and post into them. Threads are linear by default, the newest post is the last post in the thread.
Threads are by default ordered by the newest post in the thread, except for the "stickies" - important threads being pinned to the top. It means that inactive threads will move slowly towards the end of the thread list until the oldest inactive ones get scrapped automatically. How long they must be inactive to be scrapped, depends on settings set by the highest members of staff (it takes several years here).
It means that if you want your personal artwork to get noticed, it would make sense to keep all your work in one single thread where you can post new pictures as often as you want. You can name your thread as "BCarey's personal artwork thread" or something like that, so people are able to find it and will understand what is in there, what it's about. Having a good and understandable thread title is important, kind of mandatory.
Or, since you are posting art from your game, you could name your thread accordingly.
You can explain in the first post of your thread (the Opening Post or the Original Post = OP) what the thread is about or who you are or whatever else you feel being important. Kind of what you did in your previous post.
That way your work can be found in one place, your thread won't be scrapped before you lose interest yourself and stop posting there, people interested can "watch" your thread (get a notification every time something is posted) and forum moderators and staff will be much happier with the lesser number of well organized threads.
Right now no one understands why are you posting these pictures or what they are about and why are you making a new thread for each of them. Since you are new to message board system, it's kind of undestandable, but if you keep creating this kind of separate threads of single images, the staff may not be as understanding and start deleting your threads.
Just look around, how other people are behaving, how other artistst are posting their work and try to follow the example.
There are 33 pages of just art threads here that you can look at.
Don't forget to get acquainted with forum rules: there are general rules for the whole F95 and some sub-forums have their own subset of more specific rules. You can even establish your own additional rules in your own thread, that are not in conflict with the forum rules. You can report people who refuse to follow the rules, so moderators and staff will deal with them and their posts.
Since you have made your own game, you could also create a thread for it in the games sub-forum, post a download link and ask the staff for a game developer tag for yourself. Make sure to follow the rules there! Every game thread (thread title) and first post must follow a certain template. You can use any of the game threads there as an example to make your own.
Welcome to F95!
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Thanks for all the info! I am adding to the threads I already have now, rather than posting new ones. At the moment, I have "The Perv game" posted for download in "artwork" along with a video from the game. I plan to make a numbered series of this game concept. In this case, is it OK to post each version as a separate thread? They will be months apart. Also, when you said I could post my games in the games sub-forum, are you talking about "request completed game"? I'm also not sure how to ask the staff for a game developer tag. Or would it just be better to keep posting the games under "Artwork". The first one, at least, is more artwork than game, shooting with the space bar being the only "game play".
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