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.

[IBangBaby]

http://schizo.createblog.com/blog/entry.php?id=2963

Has anyone ever read that? I actually agree with Gabi with everything. I've thought about leaving this site so many times. I too feel like that little light cb once, has faded. The layouts accepted now are nothing more than scheme9 layouts. Full of nonsense 7th grade love layouts, with no potential for design. I've given up critiqueing mostly everyones layouts. Simply because there are too many, and I have no effort, and am not up for it anymore. Imo, take a look at the front page right now, there are more than half that are crap. Most are just a bunch of brushes splatted together, randomly, and slapped on a couple of divs. All the new submitters, continually are submitting now, without getting better. Back in 06, nearly every single layout you browsed through was appealing, and flowed so well. To this day, only few of the official designers reside, such as Fainaru, Kirsty, Mark, ect. Honestly, as you browse along the layouts these days, there are about 2 - 3 of the better layouts submitted, lately. I dont know why.. but this is depressing beyond words. I guess this is what Jusun wanted, so I can't complain. Just.. cb has lost the prestigious feel it once had. The cb icons, that link back to the site, look pretty average now, like any other layout site. But I guess, I'm only one person, and my opinion won't change anything.

[IVIike]

http://schizo.createblog.com/blog/entry.php?id=2963

Has anyone ever read that? I actually agree with Gabi with everything. I've thought about leaving this site so many times. I too feel like that little light cb once, has faded. The layouts accepted now are nothing more than scheme9 layouts. Full of nonsense 7th grade love layouts, with no potential for design. I've given up critiqueing mostly everyones layouts. Simply because there are too many, and I have no effort, and am not up for it anymore. Imo, take a look at the front page right now, there are more than half that are crap. Most are just a bunch of brushes splatted together, randomly, and slapped on a couple of divs. All the new submitters, continually are submitting now, without getting better. Back in 06, nearly every single layout you browsed through was appealing, and flowed so well. To this day, only few of the official designers reside, such as Fainaru, Kirsty, Mark, ect. Honestly, as you browse along the layouts these days, there are about 2 - 3 of the better layouts submitted, lately. I dont know why.. but this is depressing beyond words. I guess this is what Jusun wanted, so I can't complain. Just.. cb has lost the prestigious feel it once had. The cb icons, that link back to the site, look pretty average now, like any other layout site. But I guess, I'm only one person, and my opinion won't change anything.

i agree i've tried bringing it up backstage, but we don't have any power really... it's up to Jusun