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.

[fainaru]

I'd like to have some input too, as being someone who almost always used to submit layouts weekly.

So I came back from a couple months of break and submitted some new stuff.

I don't recall having my layouts pushed back to later pages this quickly, unless the submission approval rate has substantially increased since my time off. Call me greedy, but I put tons of effort into my work.

My biggest issue doesn't seem to be the quality control, but the fact that I see some really good layouts here pushed 3 pages later where not many would want to look (that is of course if the front pages are less appealing). It urks me to see stuff like that fall under the cracks and get pushed back by some mediocre work. Ehh.

[*mzkandi*]

I'd like to have some input too, as being someone who almost always used to submit layouts weekly.

So I came back from a couple months of break and submitted some new stuff.

I don't recall having my layouts pushed back to later pages this quickly, unless the submission approval rate has substantially increased since my time off. Call me greedy, but I put tons of effort into my work.

My biggest issue doesn't seem to be the quality control, but the fact that I see some really good layouts here pushed 3 pages later where not many would want to look (that is of course if the front pages are less appealing). It urks me to see stuff like that fall under the cracks and get pushed back by some mediocre work. Ehh.

Since the revealing of cb4 we get ALOT of layout and graphic submission daily. ALOT. Because of this some newly submitted layouts will get pushed back more quickly because of the heavily increased number of submissions we get.