by Woodruff on Sat May 02, 2009 9:34 pm
oaktown wrote:It is indeed somewhat rare that a new idea posted in the Ideas sub-forum gets a lot of attention. I think there are several reasons for this...
1) Most of the ideas in there aren't very good.
2) Most of the ideas will never get made, both because they aren't very good and because they have nobody working on them. If there was a mapmaker committed to the idea, they'd be drafts. If people think an idea is never going to be made they won't post, because...
3) People have a limited amount of time to spend looking at/commenting on other people's maps.
Now, we could say all of that in the Mapmakers' Guide, but the effect would be that people would stop using the Idea subforum. If that's what we wanted, we could just delete it and save the space. But it does serve a purpose, and occasionally a good idea comes out of there. The Conquer Crater thread has 59 posts and it looks like they've picked up a photoshop guy to make the map. The Spain thread started as an idea, but now has a draft and probably should be moved. World 2.2 is up to 11 pages.
You're absolutely right that the "make a map" responses can be frustrating, but in reading through your thread I get the impression that the comments weren't asking you to make a map, but to simply sketch something out to help readers understand your idea. You presented a wall of text to a bunch of people who have shown themselves to be visual learners.
Well, you've certainly convinced me that the opinions I've heard regarding the mapmaking area of the site were accurate. That's ok...the tournament area will benefit.
It does seem odd that the group seems to take pride in such a reputation, though. But I can see no other explanation than pride for what I'm seeing.
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Woodruff on Sat May 02, 2009 9:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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