Stick time limited

What determines if an uploaded pattern is "stickied" on the first page for a longer period of time?

"This thread was moderated (Stick Time Limited)"
vs
"This thread was moderated (Move)"

Being stickied gives a better opportunity to earn more gold coins so it seems unfair to those that arent stickied to first page.

The stick patterns also seem to be the 200 gold coins ones.

Once patterns are buried the chance of earning gold coins greatly diminishes.

Please clarify.
Thanks!

knitknitknit

I stopped uploading.

My latest patterns were approved and didnt even hit FIRST page so what is the point? If they arent easily seen they dont sell.

To say people will find them by searching name if they are interested isnt really fair, how many pattern names can you recall? I buy based on style, not a name I dont even know.

Im not PAYING to have a pattern that is newly released by the designer get buried.

And yes as soon as it was approved it was NOT on first page because I was online so the sorting for "LATEST" released patterns does NOT work.

New people to this site will think there arent any NEW patterns being added if they dont know people can PAY to stick their patterns on the first page.

You have to look way past the first few pages to see newly uploaded patterns unless you caught sight of them on the approval page first. If you see a pattern you like there your best bet is to save it to favorites because chances are it will be buried 10 pages up at least.

When you sort "LATEST" there are patterns uploaded years ago AHEAD of newly uploaded in the past week or month.

Search is broken or skewed to those who are paying for first page placement.

All new patterns should get "stuck" for at least 24 hours to be fair to all.

Oh well, if it cant be fair for all there is no point in uploading anymore.

I have way more patterns than life at this point!

Ill probably just keep my newly released patterns to myself and just buy a few here and there unless this is addressed.

Puppy

New downloads will be on the first page if you select:


More -> Order by: Post Time



Youre right: sometimes being stickied gives a better opportunity to earn more gold coins, and and it costs 20 gold coins for 24 hours.
Use magic -> Set top card -> Buy  (1 or more items)




Press "Use" only.




An uploaded pattern is "stickied" on the first page for 24 hours.


In my experience the chance of earning Gold Coins remains, if pattern is interesting to other members - its always found by searching.

TheKnitter

I think the term "stick" as they use it means the time it is posted, not that its stuck anywhere.  Nothing stays on the "front" page as far as I know.  The new ones are above the older ones.  Hopefully, people will search and find your uploads (they have searched mine, I still get downloads from things I posted over a year ago).  Those 200 GC posts are on the first page because they were the latest (stickied) approved.  If you come back in a few days they will have moved down the list.  You can also search on the pattern page using different criteria i.e., past day, past two days, etc.  And, of course, they have a search feature at the top of ever page so you can look for specific patterns.  Its easy to get discouraged - dont!  

knitknitknit

Ive been skipping the first few pages with the stickied over priced patterns. :D

SAME patterns over and over....if I didnt want to buy it the first time seeing it I dont want it after seeing it 20 times! :P

Hope they are getting their coins worth since they are there for way longer than 24 hours!

TheKnitter

I just wanted to tell you Ive seen the same patterns on the first page for days now so obviously those folks paid to keep them there.  I was unaware you could do that so you are 100% correct!

xcherubx

Ive seen patterns on the first page that were uploaded MONTHS even YEARS ago...not sure why!

knitknitknit

TheKnitter
You need to click on "more" and choose "post time" - that usually works for me as I dont want to see the same thing over and over either. You can then choose 1 day, two, a week, etc.   Post time 2019-1-6 17:05

!

Thanks for the reminder!
Ive tried that search in the past but forgot about it. Way too many search options!

more> post time certainly makes a difference and should be the default if you want to see the REAL latest uploads...Not many patterns are actually being uploaded it seems when you search this way.

If new people want to see NEWLY UPLOADED patterns that is the search method that seems to work.

Search is broken or paid skewed for the default all threads> latest since it isnt the "LATEST" search when knitting patterns from years ago pop up on the first page before the patterns that were actually uploaded recently!

crawlingeye

For what its worth, Ive uploaded a bunch of new patterns (all less than 100GCs ! :P, and they are all still on the front page 2+ days later, and I didnt pay anything to do that. I wonder if the mods have a rating system for what patterns are the most popular?

PatternSquirrel

Thanks for the info. I was unaware that posters could pay to have their pattern stay on the first page. I wandered why I can not find new patterns and now I know.