Criteria for "Featured" tag?

[Van]

Just out of curiosity, what are the criteria applied to artworks earning the “Featured” tag? Who decides? I can’t say I disagree with any of those selected, but looking through the Finished Artworks category, I can see many others that I would have thought should have at least been considered. Is it based on votes (likes)?

[AhabGreybeard]

I think @raghukamath makes that decision.
He’s the site owner/controller so he has that ability

[Grum999]

Hi

Here an old discussion with some posts (not all) talking about this subject.

Feedback thread for the forum

In addition to the artworks you already put into featured yourself, maybe it’s possible to implement an additional voting button next to the like button, for people to vote for artworks they think should be featured. however unlike the like button, vote count and who voted should not be publicly visible. When a work gets enough votes, then one of you gets a notification and can aproove it or not.

Grum999

[raghukamath]

I tried to check out the voting plugin mentioned in the previous reply. But adding yet another plugin to the mix was a bit overwhelming in terms of site maintenance. I try to keep the plugins to minimum. If you have any other way of choosing the featured image I am open to suggestions.

Currently I glance over the finished artwork category once a week to see which is at the top in terms of likes and choose one from them. Some time other moderators suggest me to make some image featured.