Just a small suggestion:
I think the "How do you feel about your entry" section could be removed. I personally don't use this at all and I have a feeling that many people uploading some work don't want to immediately judge upon it. They're probably just happy they finished something.

Admin

Do you think the wording could be changed? The goal was to let people identify the works that they felt like they worked hard on or want to remember for later. I'm not sure if having an option for negative is helpful though.

I also wanted to maybe try to use this to find cool stuff to automatically feature on the homepage or something but I never really looked into how people were using it.

I end up using this for my own categorization, same as tags. I didnt notice it being surfaced to other people, is it currently like that?
I tend to think of it as "Today's work went well" "I have no strong feelings one way or another" and "Today was a problem for one reason or another".
The section would be more useful to me personally if I could look at a listing of things I rated one way or another, otherwise its a metric I'm not able to do any reflection on at a large scale.

Admin (Edited 1 time)

I think this is what I intended. Right now we don't show the ratings you've given your own submissions to anyone else. I think I'd like to have:

  • A page where you can filter your own submissions by your rating
  • All submissions you were proud of get an icon for everyone to see, other ratings aren't shown

I think the wording is Ok. I just thought it was unused, but if people use it to categorize their own entries than that's of course a valid use case.

I'm always happy when I finish something, and I think it's more about quantity instead of quality in this case, so I agree that it's a bit unnecessary. I like the idea, because it causes me to reflect on what I have done, yet it never ends up helping me. It could work, the execution is just a bit wrong, so I agree that if enough people want it gone it should either be removed or be optional/have a checkbox on your profile or something.