Rejected Layouts Suggestion, (No, I'm not whining about anything) :P Options

[CrimsonSkyGraphi...]

Hey there,

I have a suggestion about rejected layouts. I understand you have a certain quality you have to meet for which layouts you accept, and that you have only a certain amount of server space so not every one can be accepted.

Buut. What about if Createblog had a "Rejected Layouts" section. Where you can maybe keep the last 50 layouts, and people can go and see them and maybe comment on them. That way..it gives the members of CB a chance to get a say in which layouts get on the site. Like, if a layout gets enough positive feedback..it can be accepted afterwards. It might also solve some of the issues people have when they question the standards the mods accept/reject with.

If the layout doesnt get enough good feedback by the time the Rejected section is full..then it gets dropped. But it seems fair, doesnt it? Let me know what you all think. ^_^

[DaTru KataLYST]

This is not a good idea.

1. Imagine a subforum called "Rejected Layouts" and your skin showed up on it. Now everyone knows you got rejected. THEN they have to hear from a bunch of people insult their rejected skin. Even if a post is helpful, it still hurts the submitter. It will destroy the submitter's confidence and he/she will probably stop making layouts to better themselves.

2. If the submitter got rejected and cared enough to know why, they'd PM the mod to know why.

3. It takes away the effect that only approved skins are shown. And once again, if we made a "rejected layouts" forum everyone would just see it as the "recycle bin" of cB layouts. How negative, right??

4. If they want critisicm, they can put it in the Showcase forums, right?

There are layoutters who say it's a great idea, but please remember that most submitters don't post much on cB, but only submit. We have to remember that it's just not posters who are the submitters, but also those who don't post (the actual majority); if we made this forum it would create much grief for the majority of submitters. Are you going to look highly upon someone when you view a user's topic history and it only shows rejected skins?