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Party's Over ...
Hey everyone,
We hope everyone had as much fun yesterday as we did with allowing artwork and low-quality / image-macro content on the site. We want to continue to require self-post in order to submit artwork and images here, even if it is less intuitive... and we are reinstating the low-effort / image-macro rule to require image post have some medium to high effort.
As a reminder, artwork & images are allowed, it just requires the post to be a medium level or higher of effort in what we call a "self-post" (Post in most clients) and the graphic is linked from a hosting site like Imgur. Automoderator and Reddit subreddit configurations disable or make it ineffective to create a link or image-based posts directly.
That being said, we would like to know if you would like to have us lower the quality standards more frequently, choose an option below to let us know what you think would be a healthy balance between low-effort content and our current standard.
KinaBREW
First off, watching the community do what they did yesterday was really fun for us to watch. We enjoyed it all.
Most skins that "don't make the cut" don't get past the ideation phase which means they don't make it to the concepting phase. Concepts that don't get made into models now still might be repurposed for another hero and/or made later down the line. We have a lot of ideas and a lot of those are varying degrees of good. Some are just obviously better than others. Some are more niche and are just as good for a select group of people. We almost never throw them away. It's more like nurturing and molding it until it works.
In the past we've shown concepts that we haven't made yet. We still might go back and do those skins someday even though people know about them. Sharing some of the ones in our bank is an option.
Concepts that come from the community are awesome and many concepts the community have come up with are frequently talked about in our skin pack meetings. One of the highest voted skins in one of the last community voted polls was C'thun Probius. Super cool idea. Slotting it in a skin pack is something we still would like to do. Know that we are talking about things like this often.
Prioritizing these things is also challenging. For example, do people want a community C'thun Probius skin or a Rag skin? What about an Arthas model rework vs a new hero like Manaroth, Lady Vashj or the hundreds of other characters that people want? Everyone is different and everyone wants something different from Heroes. We're here, we're listening and on a long enough timeline we'll get everything everyone wants.
Stay inside, stay safe, be healthy and wash your hands.