Please do not submit more than 1 wallpaper a day. There are certain people who like to throw up 4 or 5 wallpapers in one day, sometimes several times a week. Often these wallpapers are underwhelming at best. The only thing these walls are good for is pushing skins and walls people actually worked on off the front page into the archive where they will be missed.
From now on, if you submit more than one wallpaper a day, we will keep the best (if there is a best one) of of the lot and moderate the rest. If you have a series of wallpapers you'd like to submit at once, please submit them as a *.zip. But be warned: just because you roll them into a zip does not mean they will not be subject to moderation due to quality. If we are forced to dl a zip and we're greeted with a bunch of garbage you whipped up in ten minutes, it will get zapped.
If we feel you're just generally submitting too often and the work you're putting forth is just generally unspectacular, your submissions may also be subject to moderation.
We're happy you like to submit here and we want you to keep submitting your best work to Customize.org. But we don't want to be your daily dumping ground to show off your last dozen photoshop experiments or vacation pictures. The wallpaper archive here is pretty massive and hard enough to search through without people injecting chaff into it on a daily basis.
Also, expect moderation due to quality to tighten up. So buck up and turn that quality dial up a notch.
colossus72 [c72] Customize.org Staff member relations, submissions.
Does this only apply to wallpapers, or to other skins and stuff as well? I only ask because looking at the front page right now, I see seven Rainlendar skins by the same user.
I definitely agree with this policy. It stinks to submit something only to have its time on the front page cut short when someone submits 10 walls a few minutes later, pushing yours off (it never happened to me, but I can imagine how it must feel).
Flooding the front page definitely does not guarantee you downloads. Usually, if I see a bunch of subs by one user, I check out one or two to see if I like it, and skip the rest. Better exposure will come from spreading your subs out over a few days. You can also get more useful comments that way. ___________________ Scourge of the Muffins
For what it's worth, if we're concerned about getting exposure on the better pieces of art, I have some suggestions:
1) Categorize the front page. By the time my last submission made it to the front page, it was 28th or 29th, so unless people had their size set to display 30 or more, it was lost.
2) Review submissions quicker. Had the submission been reviewed, it would've appeared. As it were, it sat in the wallpaper section for more than two days, and by the time it was reviewed it was forgotten anyway. If you blink, you miss these things.
Oh, and I *STILL* think featuring more than one piece is a good idea. Maybe not always. If you've got a ton of good submissions within a few days, feature five or them for a few days each. Make a queue. When submissions dry up, fine. Worry about it later.
please remember that our rating admins are trying their best to rate submissions in a timely manner. however, if there is a day where we receive a ton of submissions, not everything might make it to the front page.
as for submissions in categories other than walls, i believe that we request that people submit no more than 3 to 5 within a 24 hour period.
Fenris - are certain admins expected to rate only certain submissions? In my case, it seemed like heylove took care of whatever group was in the wallpaper queue. I don't know if it's just her job to rate those submissions. There were other admins on in the meantime, but maybe they don't rate wallpaper subs and such.
You should have made this a news story, I haven't posted anything, much less even been to this site in like 2 years, I finally come back and post like 6 wallpapers and get chewed out by the "l33t" jerks who no doubt "pwn" this site and I didn't even know I wasn't supposed to do that!! I spent HOURS of time on my wallpapers too, just because someone posts a few at a time doesn't always mean they will do it often and it surely doesn't mean they spent no time on it. This is insulting at best.
l33t? pwn? Since when were we fourteen year old gamers?
Anyway, why not resubmit the wallpapers? Blasting the queue with a bunch of stuff is basically spamming it, regardless of whether or not the quality of the work is top-notch.
Your submissions were deleted because there were too many of them at a time, not because they didn't meet community standards.
