cb submission standards Options

[micron]

i posted this in backstage aimed at staff members, just felt the community should know.


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im still making sure there arent any bugs in the submissions engine, but i want to say something about standards that i think is way over due.

i understand that many of you want cb to only have the highest of quality, but i personally think this is counterintuitive to bringing createblog to the masses. for example, lately (and one of the main reaons ive decided to seperate myspace layouts to div overlays and standard), is because increasingly i only see div overlay layouts. sure, div overlays are pretty and look great, but that only accounts for less than 1% of the entire myspace community. i think its a flaw in our logic to think that highering the standards even more will bring in more members. in fact, its just going to do the opposite. submitters will stop submitting their layouts, because they will fear (know rather) that it will be rejected. and without new layouts, people will visit createblog less often to check up on the new layouts, which means with less traffic theres just less opporunity for people to submit things. you see, its a downward spiral were going, if we maintain our current rediculous "standards" aiming to please only the measly 0.0001% of our potential audience. which says something especially if the staff members themselves dont have any quality layouts /graphics submitted to cb.

in anycase, im going to ask everyone to loosen up on teh standards. instead of accepting what pleases you, think in terms of the community. ask yourself, will someone out there use this layout / graphic ? if the answer is yes, accept the layout, no matter how you may feel about it. your perspective is very important, but only because you should be thinking behalf of the community, not yourselves.

i hope i made myself clear. if you disagree wtih my stance, feel free to tell me why.

[Blaqheartedstar]

i understand that your trying to get CB out there and accepted layouts that will "appeal" to everyone else but what about the jockers that are now coming in? that has doubled since before...
and layouts of poor quality not meaning in style but the image it self.... there are layouts here that are soo pixled they don't look as clear as the screenshot portrays it to be. do you really think it will appeal to people to have blurry graphics on their layouts? i just don't want this to end up like skem9 which is like CB just their layouts are the worst (user submited layouts)

[*mzkandi*]

i understand that your trying to get CB out there and accepted layouts that will "appeal" to everyone else but what about the jockers that are now coming in? that has doubled since before...
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There isn't much we can do to prevent jockers, unfortunately. You find that in all aspects online. The best way to take care of this now (and in the past) is from informants who can identify when something is jocked and we take care of it from there. And sometimes we staff members catch them ourselves and deal with it accordingly.