YOUR STANDARDS Options

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This is something that was brought to the design staff's attention:
While the mods are the people who decide which layouts and graphics make it to the site, the members are ultimately the ones who use them and decide which ones are popular amongst users.

It would be greatly appreciated to take some time to fill this out. You can choose to fill out whichever sections you feel comfortable with. Feel free to use examples and express any concerns you have.

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[center][b][size=3]My Standards[/size][/b]
[i][b]Layouts Submissions[/b][/i][/center]
[u]Myspace Layouts:[/u]
[u]Xanga Layouts:[/u]
[u]Blogger Layouts:[/u]
[u]Livejournal Layouts:[/u]
[u]Website Layouts:[/u]
[u]General Comments:[/u]

[center][i][b]Graphics Submissions[/b][/i][/center]
[u]Avatars:[/u]
[u]Banners:[/u]
[u]Photos:[/u]
[u]Backgrounds:[/u]
[u]Wallpapers:[/u]
[u]General Comments:[/u]

Don't mind if I pin this, at least temporarily..
} Azarel

This post has been edited by StanleyThePanda: May 4 2007, 11:45 PM

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Am I allowed to say anything? :]

Clean out - We often do cleanouts when we feel its needed. As of yet we havent' discussed layouts being cleaned out. One of the layouts linked above, I agree with you. Also you guys can always point out to any staff member, (Pm is more secretive if you need too) discussing the layouts you feel shouldn't have been accepted. Because our goal is to (well at least some of us currently) is to get stricter on layouts and graphics. You can see the topic in feedback, about it. (Its about graphics, but graphics layouts same thing pretty much) Personally I see a few bad layouts accepted here and there, but I don't see a clean out for layouts needed just yet. (Then again people will disagree). If more people really really think there needs to be one you can bring it up with the staff and we can actually take the time to discuss it. But yea


Members chose the layouts accepted/rejected - I don't really agree with this idea. Not because I'm a power hungry person, but because of favoritism. From reading the posts/critique that many people give on layouts. (Especially for their friends) I feel that the acceptance of layouts by everyone, voting process or not will cause more chaos.

Ok I'm leaving.

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Am I allowed to say anything? :]

Clean out - We often do cleanouts when we feel its needed. As of yet we havent' discussed layouts being cleaned out. One of the layouts linked above, I agree with you. Also you guys can always point out to any staff member, (Pm is more secretive if you need too) discussing the layouts you feel shouldn't have been accepted. Because our goal is to (well at least some of us currently) is to get stricter on layouts and graphics. You can see the topic in feedback, about it. (Its about graphics, but graphics layouts same thing pretty much) Personally I see a few bad layouts accepted here and there, but I don't see a clean out for layouts needed just yet. (Then again people will disagree). If more people really really think there needs to be one you can bring it up with the staff and we can actually take the time to discuss it. But yea
Members chose the layouts accepted/rejected - I don't really agree with this idea. Not because I'm a power hungry person, but because of favoritism. From reading the posts/critique that many people give on layouts. (Especially for their friends) I feel that the acceptance of layouts by everyone, voting process or not will cause more chaos.

Ok I'm leaving.

i agree that favoritism plays a huge role, but thats where voting comes in, i mean i love the idea of members or that step up from member having a say in what gets accepted to createblog. i love that this site is one of the few that differs alot from all the other sites, and i want it to stay that way... but the layouts accepted now are layouts you find in crap myspace layout sites... its nasty.

what about a post here in the Designers' Café on layouts we think should be removed... with reason, nothing like oh because i think it sucks, or because i don't like it. As a member if you think that a layout should be removed put effort into your reason why. i think that with that it will make things easier for the mods to see what we think and get a feel for the layouts we don't like.

Am I allowed to say anything? :]
lol, why shouldn't you? i would love to hear what mods think instead of keeping them selves away

Oh one more thing I forgot to mention.
You guys mentioned the layout from earlier should not have been accepted, and Ricky you mentioned that O Amazing's layouts are a bit tacky. Well I looked through a bunch of those layouts and the design staff needs to take into consideration the amount of favorites on each layout. For instance, the layout mentioned earlier has 21 favorites or so. Maybe it doesn't appeal to regular Createblog users, but the layouts do appeal to a small part of the Myspace users.

that what gets me mad, that layouts that look to have taken maybe 10 mins to make gets 21 favs and other great layouts get 4...