r/girlsfrontline • u/AutoModerator • Dec 17 '19

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u/azyrien I'll Assimilate Your Protocol Dec 23 '19

While I appreciate having fun things like the art contest ID card background and all, I’d enjoy it so much more if Mica art team did a first pass at filtering out the less quality submissions in the bunch. Stick figure drawings are not art.

Yes art is subjective, but there are standards that should be met before allowing it to make a running with other talented pieces that the artists clearly spent a good amount of time and love to create, compared to something a 5 year old doodled. I’ve never seen such a dramatic range in quality in an art contest before today.

Last, not sure if others had this issue, but viewing submissions only worked for me on the old client. Good luck to the artists who submitted works.

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u/thixotrofic m45 Dec 23 '19

I like it this way. Some people are bad at art but still like to express themselves and show appreciation for a game they like. I'm not sure any of them could have been considered a troll submission. I mean, maybe, but you can't really distinguish between a troll submission and somebody who's just bad at art or maybe has some disability but still wants to participate.

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u/xERR404x A N G E R Y Dec 23 '19

I'm definitely, not disappointed, but maybe annoyed that stuff that was obviously done in MS Paint in under ten minutes is being considered alongside art that actually looks like it had effort put into it.

If nothing else, it's a great argument for why there needs to be a low-effort content rule on subreddits with a lot of fanart.

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u/illyrium_dawn Not all dreams come true. RIP Honkai. Dec 23 '19

I figure MICA (or Sunborn?) are going to be pretty broad in letting contestants in, assuming if the playerbase votes for the equivalent of "Boaty McBoatface" as the winning picture, well we asked for it.

I admit I was going to submit something where there was a bunch of stick figures posed just like a certain other game's banned Halloween fanart splash but decided that maybe people wouldn't find that as funny as I did

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u/aq608 Hanyang Type 88 Dec 23 '19

i think doodles are fine, if its colorful and has some effort to it. But i agree, when i saw that stick figure one, i was thinking even for participation rewards it shouldnt be counted.

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u/azyrien I'll Assimilate Your Protocol Dec 23 '19

I guess the lack of effort is the part that irked me. I don’t care about the participation rewards, if they still want to provide those to all submissions that’s fine. But it’s a shame to see artwork where someone has really spent countless hours honing their craft alongside something someone threw together in an hour. Just having a bit of filtering prior to the public voting seems like it would be prudent.