Jalex417:

I'm sorry I didn't see your response before I responded. I'm a bit of a slow poster nowadays.

I understand your reasoning, but I think that the end result isn't going to be good. As many others, I come to this site often and I want to see the new stuff. The cookie is a workaround for experienced users to this site, and newer users may not see it.

One thing to think about is that this site is perhaps more important to new users than to more experienced users. New users are just getting into CG and they can use more things than experienced users. Also, new users may be more apt to clicking on advertisements.

And frankly, I never cared for other people's ratings. Often they have nothing to do with the art in question, but rather the popularity of the artist. I had enough of that sort of crap in high school, I don't like to see it again.

As an alternative I suggest that maybe you put a sidebar on the site with whatever you want to display for new users. That way you have the best of both worlds.

I'm working on improving my skills so that I can become a vender of Poser items. I was planning on giving away some of my initial work here to make a name for myself. I will not do this here as long as the "sort by rating" is the default. Think about it: when I first upload an item I will be unknown and not have a good rating. Therefore new users will not see it. Therefore the item (and myself) will rarely be seen by new users.

I will upload my works probably to Rendo because their items are sorted by date.

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D. Jay Newman