User blog:ChromastoneandTabby/Let's talk about Featured Object.

Okay, so, Featured Object. Seems like a good category to feature, right? Object like the various Omnitrixes are half of what makes any series worth reading, so they should be pretty popular.

Then why on earth does Featured Object have even less activity than the previous least popular Featured category, Featured Picture.

Maybe it's not fair to judge it this early in, but I did the math, and compared to Featured Picture's 0.56/7 rate of having nothing nominated, Featured Object comes in at a whopping 2/7 rate of nothing being nominated. Not to mention that if I hadn't thrown in my own chip last month, nothing would have been featured for this month!

So, why is this happening? I have an idea, but keep in mind that I haven't really proven anything, I'm just throwing stuff out there.

I think the biggest problem is this: Objects are not interesting.

At least, not comparitively.

Compared to the other Featured Pages, Objects just come out on the bottom every time. They don't have the superpower appeal of aliens, they don't have the human qualities of users, they don't have the depth of series, and they don't have the personality of characters. They at best have a 'yeah that's cool I guess' factor. Sometimes.

Now, I'm not saying "Burn Featured Object! Back with Featured Picture!"; I'm just saying that there are other types of pages that probably deserve a Featured category than Objects. Stuff like: All of those things have a more interesting appeal to them than just sort of...being there, like Featured Object is.
 * Behind The Scenes
 * Guides
 * Services
 * Blog Posts
 * Video Games
 * That one dead raccoon in the middle of the freeway.

Granted, this is all my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt, but I just felt like it was something worth bringing up.