I would like to know if you like the new art duel? Personally I love it. Fantastic feature! I would love to hear you're opinions,
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The Art Duel algorithm that is picking images can only go off the data that is input by the artist when they choose their media, subject and keywords for a given uploaded image. As you have seen, we too have seen many Art Duels where the title does not match the artwork displayed. However, when we look deeper at the artwork information for the two images, the Art Duel did choose the correct images based on the data on each image. The problem is that the original artist had picked the wrong subject, media, or keywords when they entered their image information. It has been very eye-opening to see how many images are miscategorized and something we want to see how we can improve.
While skipping the duel is always an option, we would encourage you to still vote for your favorite image from the two images presented, even if they don't match the common theme title.
We have made many improvements to the art selection process over the last few weeks during our beta period and we assume we will continue to improve the Art Duel image selection process over time as we get more feedback and have more data to work with. Thanks again for your feedback and keep on dueling!
The art selection for the duels is random from the over 900,000 images on ArtWanted. However, we do choose more artwork from active members on ArtWanted over accounts that have not logged in for a while. We also favor artists that have been selected to be featured in the past, which are generally higher quality artists. The majority of the duels will have at least one image that was uploaded in the last year as well.
Please continue to send us feedback and use your SKIP and REPORT options on the duel. We are looking at this data and using it to improve the algorithm that picks the art. Since we launched the feature, we have already made several improvements to the art selection, based on user feedback. We want to continue to make this feature better and better, so thanks to all that are using the Art Duel.
https://www.artwanted.com/mb/topic.cfm?Topic=641745
As for Art Duel, when we were building this feature, we had to decide how older artwork would be factored into the art duels. ArtWanted has been around for 24 years (since 1999) and has a large variety of artists over the years upload their art to the website. If we only picked art from active artists (say that had uploaded in the last 3 months), the variety of art would be very limited on the duels and would have a lot of repeat entries. In order to have more variety, we do include all artwork that has ever been uploaded to ArtWanted. This means that you will often see pieces of art that were uploaded 10, 15 or even 20 years ago to the website and some of those artists have not posted new art in a long time, but they also have never closed their accounts with ArtWanted.
This being said, we do currently give more weight in our algorithm (and duels) to artists that have logged in recently and uploaded new art. As we gather data on how this is used, we can tweak our algorithm based on user feedback. What we are hearing from you is that you would like to see more art from active members and less art from older members. If this is a common feeling from other artists, please chime in and tell us your thoughts with your comments. Thanks!
Dale - The main benefit Art Duel brings to our members is more exposure to their artwork. A secondary benefit is to see how your artwork compares with other artists on ArtWanted if that interests you.
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