Wallpaper Submission
Sunday, May 18, 2003 by CAClark | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'm wondering why my wallpaper submission has been removed and seemingly rejected?
It was a blue tinted verion of this image http://www.f-nine.co.uk/images_gallery/laat_art.jpg with a slight offset to make it ideal for the updated PixOS suite.
I'm pretty pissed off right now, as my last submission was rejected for being a Terragen image. I've seen tons accepted since.
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Reply #42 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:24 AM
Reply #43 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:45 AM
| your wisdom is not omnipotent |
Whose is?
We moderate walls based on our guidelines and what is appropriate for the site.
All else has been said that is relevant to how walls are moderated.
| And yeah, some walls are art. |
and, who determines what "art" is? Just because it is artistic does not mean that it makes a good wall.
Reply #44 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:22 PM
Reply #45 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 5:14 PM
On one hand we have to juggle humility in the face of freely offered works, on the other the stand-over demands of some that their works DESERVE acceptance.
One thing EVERY wall moderator would love to see is 'diversity'...creative innovation and imagination when it comes to walls AND skins too, for that matter.
Too often we receive in either field 'same old crap but bluer' described by the author as 'refreshingly different'...
Please!
It's never particularly clever to underestimate the moderators' intelligence...
Some artists confuse quantity with quality, assuming that if a million items are submitted then the law of averages applies and a number of them will get through. I rather see it as if there were ONLY ONE work submitted by an author then it alone has a higher likelihood of acceptance...so he at 'least' has one work 'up'. Flatulent spamming of the submissions runs the risk of people reacting out of sheer frustration of seeing more of the same and rejecting them ALL.
I think everyone would agree there are more than enough sea/mountain/sky terragens [for example] already...and what we 'should' be looking for is truly innovative permutations of them in future rather than just accept them because they are as 'good' as ones we have already.
Think of the wall section in particular as a 'communal library'.....where each 'book' adds to the appeal and diversity of the whole. It doesn't matter how fantastic Tolstoy's War And Peace is...there is only so many copies of it you can have in a library befor you start looking like a book wholesaler.
Creative diversity, peeps...that's what is needed...
Reply #46 Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:15 AM
Hmmm, why take it that way? It's not an underestimation, but more an appeal
And with all the rest I agree with you Jafo. I haven't looked to the guidelines lately, I have a few question marks about it still. Maybe I'll mail you about it.
Gosh, I love these icons 
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Reply #41 Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:57 AM
All the new submissions have a special comment box for the admins to comment on it. Only admins can see this box. Basically, for wallpapers, a few admins will leave comments in that box. Those admin comments can go from the simple "No way" to much more complex comments basically expressing the like or dislike of the admin. Once a number of admins comments have been made, one of us then clicks on the "exile skin" or the "make public" button. But as Jafo said, sometimes a wall can be so fantastic or so obviously bad that one admin may decide to not wait for ther admins to comment and immediately accept or reject. Let me tell you that you guys do not see the bad ones: art is not always a matter of taste. There are quite a few that nobody would argue about; those are rejected rather quickly.