has this happened to you? Options

[Melie]

have you ever had a layout/graphic/script/tutorial that was approved on cb and then denied later?

happened to mine:
CAN'T STAND PEOPLE

[diputs]

nopez! i've only experienced the plain denying .. lol ..

i dont see nothing wrong with this layout, hermanita! :-/ ..

[Teesa]

YES. my very first one that i ever made for cb was denied later, as well as a few others and a few graphics i believe.

i took a couple of year breaks with cb and i remember when i came back, i had a few PMs explaining what had happened and i was like

[manny-the-dino]

yeah that's happened to me once or twice on some graphics i submitted.
i wasn't very happy
but they have their reasons.


oh yeeeeeeeeeeeah, i remember seeing this layout on the cB main page.
i'm sorry it got rejected.

[CrotchetTheLeper]

Yes! Eugh! How irritating! I loved the layout I submitted, and then that Mike kid got rid of it like a day after it was up...

He mentioned something about image quality but I compleatley disagreed with him. It already had a bunch of favorites, too.

Ahh, oh well, that was a long time ago.

[venti-anemoi]

Yes, lots. I've had a number of layouts, both old and fairly recent, deleted. The older ones I can understand, but the newer ones? I was kinda ehh about it. Part of the reason why I went away for a while.

The mods do house cleaning once in a while; that is, they go through all the graphics that have been accepted and if they feel one isn't up to the current standards (which may or may not have been changed after your graphic was accepted), they delete/reject it.

Also, one mod may think it's up to standards and another may not, so one may accept it and a while later a different mod may delete it.

[synatribe]

yea I had a createblog layouts which was apporved but later one of the mods cleared it out, I found it very rude I mean I thought it was actually better then some, but oo well :/

o and melie, I actually liked that layout:]
I guess its all the mods opinions :/

[Marlons]

Plenty of times, but not enough to lose track of how many times it happened, and mostly over image quality, now I save as PNG's to avoid that.

[icecreamisyummy]

but i really like that layout!!

[Melissa]

^ Really? It hurts my eyes.

[icecreamisyummy]

well i dont liek what the banner says but i like the flowers.

[Melissa]

I don't. I think it makes everything look cluttered and distracts from the content. The monotony of the colors also bother the hell out of me. I can't really stand to look at it for more than 10 seconds. But that's just my opinion.

[Melie]

I don't. I think it makes everything look cluttered and distracts from the content. The monotony of the colors also bother the hell out of me. I can't really stand to look at it for more than 10 seconds. But that's just my opinion.

and where are your layouts again? oh that's right, you don't have any.

[Melissa]

lol, that's really funny coming from you.

I don't submit layouts to cB because it's a waste of time. I used to offer graphics and website/xanga layouts at my site, and I've submitted plenty of tutorials at other forums, but I stopped because I hate the upkeep and sharing things that took time and effort on my part. I generally do not create anything that doesn't have a personal meaning for me and I don't like depersonalizing my work by letting other people grab at it.

If I'm going to waste my time to design something for somebody else, I'm going to get paid - which I have. I give enough to the community IRL, kthx.

[venti-anemoi]

Actually, I kinda have to agree with him. Not so much the whole cluttered part, but the monotony of colors part. There's no change between the background color and the background of the modules, which makes it kind of.......... well, boring.

[ersatz]

heartquasm is a her.

[Elba]

LMAO. Oh snap.

[Fluid]

One time, i had a layout denied, then accepted

[misoshiru]

cb goes housecleaning every once in awhile. they review layouts/tutes/graphics and if they're not up to par, they get rejected. and just because someone does not submit designs, it does not mean that they can't criticize. Frankly, I agree with Melissa. cB's standards have gone way down, and I'm glad that they re-review things that they accept.

[Tung]

You can't be serious Melie. That design is absolutely crap. Anyone could make that. You didn't do anything special to the layout at ALL. You just added two banners to an already default looking layout, and a boring background color. Even I could make a layout better than that in only an hour.

[absinthe]

I'm going to agree with Tung in a euphemistic sense.

It's always a good idea to browse through CB's recent resource threads before submitting something. I'd have rejected that layout as well.

As for being accepted, and then rejected, I have a feeling the acceptance was overridden by HS, or another DS. They should have told you why. If not, go ahead and PM them for an explanation.

Generally, HS, and some DS go back and review the recently rejected and accepted layouts to make sure that's where they belong. And since we're kicking up our standards, its a little harder to get standard layouts that aren't stellar in since standard layouts are so basic.

[Melie]

i was just curious if this has ever happened to other people.

[absinthe]

Lol. I know, but I felt the need to clarify for some of the other ppl that posted.

[venti-anemoi]

heartquasm is a her.

Oh, sorry. >_< I didn't know.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Ugh.