Suggestions for enhancing Collections

I am crossposting this from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15ubcub/comment/k2b5veh/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

So that other civitai users can give some feedback on my suggestions.

There are two separate areas that I'd like to discuss: The user interface, and how to make use of collection for image discovery for the user.

1. The user interface is good right now, but can be improved. Currently, one has to click on "Save" for individual images or collections, and that is a bit slow. It would be much easier if one can simply select a bunch of images either by click drag or control drag simply dropping on a collection on the sidebar.

2. It is also a bit confusing how to remove an item from a collection. When a user is browsing a collection, there should be a garbage bin for drag and drop, and also a way to do multiple selection, then do a right click to delete the selected items.

3. At the moment, at each user's profile page there are three tabs: Models, Images, Posts, and Articles. There should be a new "Collection" tab, which shows the default collection for each user. This collection should exist by default for each user and just be called "Default" or "My Collection". Alternatively, users can designate one of their collection as "default". Whichever way is easier for civitai to implement. Users can the use the collection to showcase their own collection or images they've collected. Obviously, this collection has to be public.

4. Users can of course have multiple collections, So under the "Collection" tab there should be a drop-down box besides the "Newest | Most Reaction | etc." that allows people to browser public collections offered by the user.

Now for using collection for image discovery.

At the moment, there are just too many images for anyone to browse comfortably. I guess the criteria for "Featured Images" is the amount of "Reactions", but TBH, I found It to be just a seemingly randomly collection of bland if not downright poor quality images. I guess there is no accounting for popular taste.

So I propose that civitai implement several global collections, similar to the collection used for the SDXL Image contest.

Discovery collection: anyone can submit to this collection, but limited to say 5 images per day. This limits spamming and forces the submitter to think about what they want others to see.

These collections not only serve to let people showcase their creations, but should also encourage people to share their prompt/metadata. Images without prompts not only lacks context, but are also much less useful for people looking for ideas and for remixing. Nothing is more frustrating than to look at an interesting image and then found out that no prompt is included, so you are force to recreate the prompt instead of just taking the prompt and remix in your own ideas and styles.

The criteria for acceptance into the "discovery collection" is that the initial text2img image with the full prompt must be included. Further post-processing with any tool is allowed, but the initial image must be there. The requirement for having a text2img as the starting point is to encourage creativity. Otherwise, the list will be spammed with QR code and other creations that take an existing image and splashing a new paint on it via ControlNet, so to speak. Not saying that such images are not interesting, but to me the most creative part of A.I. art is the initial prompt.

BTW, at the moment some images have the "(i)" icon but includes little useful information. I can understand people who want to "hide" their seed, or maybe part of the negative prompt, but any entry without the main prompt should not have the "(i)" icon show because that is just "false advertising".

But the gem of civitai collection should be a "Master's collection", where only people who are or have been in the top 200 master generators list can participate in this collection. This is an automatic collection. Basically, whenever a top 200 master generators submits an image to the "Discovery collection", or when a master generator adds an image from the "Discovery collection" to one of their own collection, the image is entered into the "Master's Collection" automatically.

Once this is implemented, this same mechanism can be used to run future image contests. One possibility is to have a "Contest Collection" where everyone can submit their work just like the "Discovery Collection", and at the end of the contest, this is combined with the "Master's Collection" to determine the winner based on a certain formula. For example, take the top 100 "Most Collected" and combine that with the 100 "Most Collection" from the "Masters Collections", but each vote from the Masters Collection should count for say 5 "regular" votes. For example, if an image has 52 votes from the "Contest Collection" and 16 votes from the "Masters Collection", then it has 52 + 16*5 = 132 points. I think using "Most Collected" is better than "Most Reaction" because people must then make the effort to vote via collecting. It also prevents people voting on an image multiple times by click on thumb up, heart, happy, and sad, thus casting 4 votes to a single image.

There needs to be several types of "Discovery collection", based on whether the image is SDXL based, and on the NSFW. Therefore, there are four "Discovery collections" people can submit their entry to

1. Discovery General (SDXL)

2. Discovery NSFW (SDXL)

3. Discovery General (SD1.5/2.1)

4. Discovery NSFW (SD1.5/2.1)

People should not be submitting to these collections manually. Instead, they should post their image to the respective model page so that civitai knows whether it is SDXL based or not. It is important for people to be able to see SDXL only, because most SDXL users are no longer interest in non-SDXL based images. The reverse is true of people who are sticking to SD1.5 based model because they don't have the hardware to run SDXL, or because they prefer SD1.5's look.

People who violates the 5 images per day rule or put an NSFW image into the wrong collection should be banned for a certain period of time from submitting to the collection, say 3-7 days. Repeated offenders should be banned forever. Also, each generator should have no more than say 10 entries into the "discovery collection" per day to prevent excessively competitive generators from using friends and families to spam the collection for them. I.e., if someone adds an image generated by NobodyButMeow, but there are already 10 images by him that day, then the new entry will be rejected. There should be a message explaining to the submitter that there are already 10 entries in the list by NobodyButMeow already.