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COMPETING IS USELESS

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:07 pm
by MomochiZabuza
well, im going for rookie of the year this year, because well my videos are pretty good for a noob i think :P

but i realized something while looking at other rookie's profiles

they are much more well known than me

i could be 10 times better a creator that Koop and still not win, im not known! competing against these people is useless!

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:25 pm
by Knowname
I wouldn't say competing is useless, but it'd be nice if we could win by not competing -hehehe- besides nominating is over. Also don't take being the underdog too bad, after 4 years (yes 4) ppl still don't recognize my genius lol.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:44 pm
by MomochiZabuza
maybe ill be noticed when i start making non-n00bie AMVs
:P

Re: COMPETING IS USELESS

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:42 pm
by Garylisk
MomochiZabuza wrote:i could be 10 times better a creator that Koop and still not win, im not known! competing against these people is useless!


Did Koop even do anything noteworthy this year? Apart from Rei-Mix and Euphoria, I haven't heard much in the way of people raving about his stuff.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:47 pm
by MomochiZabuza
not this year, he's too crazy

P.S. i hear Koop is crazy :shock:

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:57 pm
by silver_moon
Usually you become well-known when people start to really like your videos. Almost everyone's videos get downloaded by at least a few people, and if those people really liked your video, they usually leave opinions, especially if the video doesn't have many. Once a video gets three or more opinions and has good scores, more people see those scores and download the video, and then if it's popular enough, it'll eventually get on the top 10 %, leading to you becoming a more well-known AMV maker. :wink:

A good way to get people to see your latest vids is to announce them in the forum. If it gets lots of good replies, more people download it, and you get more well-known. If you don't get many good replies... well, it's usually because people think you need to improve.

I'll put it this way... usually if a creator's well-known, it's for a good reason.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:59 pm
by mexicanjunior
silver_moon wrote:Usually you become well-known when people start to really like your videos. Almost everyone's videos get downloaded by at least a few people, and if those people really liked your video, they usually leave opinions, especially if the video doesn't have many. Once a video gets three or more opinions and has good scores, more people see those scores and download the video, and then if it's popular enough, it'll eventually get on the top 10 %, leading to you becoming a more well-known AMV maker. :wink:


It sounds like the circle of life. :shock:

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:04 am
by Garylisk
mexicanjunior wrote:It sounds like the circle of life. :shock:


It moves us all.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:09 am
by Scintilla
Here's my little bit of blanketed advice on how to gain popularity for oneself and one's videos:

<b>SUBMIT TO CONVENTIONS</b>


That is all.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:25 am
by Pwolf
MomochiZabuza wrote:not this year, he's too crazy

P.S. i hear Koop is crazy :shock:


he is :P


Pwolf

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:57 am
by Kalium
Pwolf wrote:
MomochiZabuza wrote:not this year, he's too crazy

P.S. i hear Koop is crazy :shock:


he is :P

Oh, like you're one to talk.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:59 am
by Pwolf
never said i wasn't >.>


Pwolf

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:57 am
by Quiet Cannon
Scintilla wrote:Here's my little bit of blanketed advice on how to gain popularity for oneself and one's videos:

<b>SUBMIT TO CONVENTIONS</b>


That is all.


Hasn't worked for me yet. I've submitted some of my videos to cons and noticed no increase in the number of hits or downloads I've been getting. Is that to suggest that my videos are bad? I guess that's up to the viewer to decide, but so far, the feedback I've gotten has been positive.

Anyway, I might just be feeling a bit of rage from the nominations. I really thought I had a video that might have been good enough to at least make the first cut in the trailer category. I really don't care about winning, but I would like for some people to be aware that I exist.

Also adding to that rage was that a lot of popular videos I didn't really like (or in some cases absolutely hated) ended up with several nominations. But that's just my opinion.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:24 am
by Vlad G Pohnert
silver_moon wrote:I'll put it this way... usually if a creator's well-known, it's for a good reason.


that's not always quite true... It really depends on a lot of factors...

Popularity can be from a number of reasons from which can include past popularity, for having consistantly good videos, catering to the fans, all the way to the one video that just happends to become very popular. It could even be a mixture of all the above.. Personality can have a fator in it as well

Vlad

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:13 am
by Garylisk
Vlad G Pohnert wrote:
silver_moon wrote:I'll put it this way... usually if a creator's well-known, it's for a good reason.


that's not always quite true... It really depends on a lot of factors...

Popularity can be from a number of reasons from which can include past popularity, for having consistantly good videos, catering to the fans, all the way to the one video that just happends to become very popular. It could even be a mixture of all the above.. Personality can have a fator in it as well

Vlad


Being well known doesn't hurt, though. Aluminum is nominated for creator of the year this year, and he hasn't done much these days. I am sure if Kevin Caldwell was available for voting for, he would get votes. :P