The adventure on LEGO Ideas

[Itaria No Shintaku]

I wanted to share my experience with you.
During the Covid I was forced to stay home a lot more than usual and then I decided to join LEGO Ideas with a project that you can find in my signature.
It was well received and I had the push I needed to believe in it and then starting really advertising for it within my friends.

But in the meantime I noticed some things that I do not like a lot about the ideas project and I will share them with you so that you may help me with your opinions.

1) Staff Picks. I really do not like Staff Picks. It's nice as the idea per se, but the effect is really surprising. The staff picked projects get a boost in visibility and hence in votes that changes totally the lifespan of the project. Projects that had 10 20 votes per day once picked were insanely boosted up to 400 votes per day. That is too much of a difference, showing that people will vote what they see, not what they really like, because the project has been there all the time, simply it wasn't that visible.

2) Cheating. It's very easy to cheat on the ideas platform. But in a sneaky way. You don't cheat directly on ideas, but you can use bots or programs to upvote your project in social medias like reddit, facebook or the like. When your project is very visible, it will draw a lot of attention and a lot of votes. I will not call names, that's not stylish and fair, but I've seen projects who get an insane amount of "likes/upvotes" on different social media platforms which cannot simply happen because the project is good. I have analyzed similar projects on similar plaftorms in the same time spans and I noticed very suspiscious activities.

3) It's stressful. Believe me, it is. There are days in which you gather 200 votes without doing anything special, those days you say "Yeah! I can do it". There are days in which though you ask friends for, or you have some spotlights somewhere, you will get 0 votes for hours and you say "No. It's over. I will never make 10k". This rollercoaster is really frustrating. I advice people to join LEGO Ideas only if you have a great deal of patience.

I wish to read for your opinions.

[JintaiZ]

1. I do not like staff picks either, it feels bad when a good project is not chosen. The only good thing about staff picks is that it does not have any impact on the review

2. Cheating shouldn't be a problem here. When a project gets way too much upvotes on social media due to bot accounts, that project will automatically get disqualified before the review starts.

3. I don't feel it's stressful at all. It is great if you can get 10k but it's okay if you don't.

I have never submitted a project before, but never stopped looking at the wonderful creations! 

Also @Itaria No Shintaku your account seems to be inactive for some reason...

[Itaria No Shintaku]

4 minutes ago, JintaiZ said:

1. I do not like staff picks either, it feels bad when a good project is not chosen. The only good thing about staff picks is that it does not have any impact on the review

2. Cheating shouldn't be a problem here. When a project gets way too much upvotes on social media due to bot accounts, that project will automatically get disqualified before the review starts.

3. I don't feel it's stressful at all. It is great if you can get 10k but it's okay if you don't.

I have never submitted a project before, but never stopped looking at the wonderful creations! 

Also @Itaria No Shintaku your account seems to be inactive for some reason...

Yes, the account is inactive and I know the reason, the staff mistook a message for self-promotion, which is forbidden and I acknowledge that, and we're explaining them that they just mistook our intentions. However seems that we will be inactive for 11 days again (10 business days ending Feb 21).