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.

[freeflow]

I'm sorry that you feel like you have to leave but the standards were lowered because thats what Jusun felt would help the community. At first I was totally against it but you know what if you want to leave because of something like this then I'm not going to try to stop you. The standards were lowered because it would give more people a chance to get their work out there. From some designers it helped them improve a lot. For people with the more superior designs that helps you more and I feel it gets you more publicity. But the standards were lowered so that we didn't have so many high quality layouts when some people simply liked simple. I know teh standards suck now but everyone just has to face it. It gives more people opportunities and thats teh point.

Going back to hgher standards was a lot tougher and it caused a lot more chaos because some people's standards are different that others. We are now taking a lenient approach and thats it. All of you guys tend to be some of the people that were here when the standards were higher and if we higher them again I don't even thinks ome of the stuff you guys submitted should be accepted at times. But you know what its life. And we can't just carter to some people.


Its all of you guy's choice whether or not you want to submit anything here. If you have a problem with teh way official designers are selected then don't be one. If you don't like to have your designs next to someone who isn't as great then don'submit anything.


To an extent I agree we don't see that mayn DIVS anymore. So how is highering our standards going to change that? We can only accept what people submit. And let me tell you one reason is that too many people generate them so they don't get accepted. Having leniency gives more people a chance. IF you guys were on staff you would of known previously I was completely against it but I think its a more fair approach.

Sorry if you guys don't like what you see but there are more people here that like to get their layouts accepted here and there no matter how "easy" it may be for you gus.