Annoyed, accepted and rejected.. why both? Options

[rockable]

Right.. heres my story.
Quite recently I got into Createblog again, and as my graphical talents have improved a little, have started uploading some of my better graphics. I noticed that the moderators seemed to be nicer than before, and commented on a lot of the things I submitted, which I was really happy about. I started gaining more confidence in my ability and over the past few weeks have made some of the best uncoded layouts ive made in a long time.
Anyway, I sign on today to see if I have anymore new comments, and I see I have 4 messages, which baffled me.

So I look, and I read that 3 of my icons which were accepted, have now been rejected, because of a font being unreadable, or the image being too soft or grainy. Looking at these icons, I can see if you look really closely, with your face a few inches away from the screen, then indeed it does look a little grainy. But if you look at it from a normal distance, it looks fine. And most people arent particually fussed anyway!
And WHAT THE HELL?! I was told this is really blurry and out of focus, and it isnt clear:

In my opinion it isnt really blurry, really out of focus (correct me if im wrong. It might just be that as im long sighted I cant see it as well as others..) However, I can see its a little grainy.. BUT SHE DIDNT SAY THAT!

NOW IM SORRY I cant buy the most perfect software. I can clearly see that not EVERYONES graphics are perfect on here.

And I also want to mention the people that moderate our graphics. Each time I submit something in a group, it is done by different person. Now I totally understand that CreateBlog is really popular and gets loads of submissions, but all the people who moderate these seem to have different qualities in mind? So i get told one thing by one mod, I do it for another icon so that its perfect, and then another mod tells me something else. Why not have just one moderator, that knows exactly what is right and wrong? Instead of loads of people. Lots of people means lots of opinions. One mod may like it, while another may not.. you see?
I also notice that my worst icons get accepted. What the hell is with that?
And ALSO (sorry about all the also's) one of the moderaters that accepted a few of my graphics, commented on basically all of my things. But after I read messages from her this morning, I looked through all of my graphics to make sure they were up to standard, and I notice that all the comments from her on all the icons she had commented on had gone! I only have one comment from her on a banner now, and I know for a FACT I had more than one comment from her. HELL, I even thing she commented on one of the graphics she accepted and then rejected!

And why reject a graphic a few days after its accepted?! You either accept it or you dont..! It cant been good one day and not the next! I thought this was over (You remember a while back when there was a massive clearout? Well basically all my graphics that were accepted, were rejected, apart from 1, which was the worst icon i ever made.. WTH?!) and that the mods were better now!

Im really sorry for the majorly long post, but im pretty upset that what I was told to be a good icon, was rejected a few days after acceptance. And you know what.. its put me off createblog again. Im sick of it. Most people who randomly browse createblog, just want a nice icon and whatnot. I remember when I first found it and I knew nothing about graphic, I didnt even notice the quality..!
Createblog just seems to be one big competition between designers now. Even some of the most favourite graphics arent the best quality in the world.. doesnt this tell you something?

Kudos to anyone who reads this, and again, sorry for the majorly long post, but I just need to vent my anger.

Graphic mods: I do respect the work you do..and that it takes time to go through all submisions, but if its not good enough.. why accept it in the first place..? You obviously didnt see any problem when you accepted it, so obviously the "problem" isnt all that noticeable after all.

[rnicron]

??

EXACTLY

Nice chatting with you.

[synatribe]

Doesn't it seem like you're ripping off a post I just made?
Please continue when you can formulate your own ideas.

its you attitude not what you do on ur free time

[heyo-captain-jac...]

^x2 You kinda lost it there. You can do better.

[synatribe]

theres no point of dealing with him anyway, no one pays attention to him unless like in my situation I was annoyed or like in you situation XTC you were just interested in our chatter :]

[rnicron]

its you attitude not what you do on ur free time

I'd like to pretend you didn't just post that because it had absolutely nothing to do with what you quoted, so we'll let it slide.

Seeing that I have a lot of enrollment stuff to catch up on tomorrow, I'll let you sleep on this. Let me know if you can pull anything else out of your ass. Goodnight.

theres no point of dealing with him anyway, no one pays attention to him unless like in my situation I was annoyed or like in you situation XTC you were just interested in our chatter :]

As for that, please start naming 5 people who actually know of you.

Again, goodnight. I don't mean to pull a Tama.

[synatribe]

I'd like to pretend you didn't just post that because it had absolutely nothing to do with what you quoted, so we'll let it slide.

Seeing that I have a lot of enrollment stuff to catch up on tomorrow, I'll let you sleep on this. Let me know if you can pull anything else out of your ass. Goodnight.

its just the truth but goodnight to you too:]

[rnicron]

The truth for...what exactly? You totally pulled that out of thin air, trying to make a jab out of nothing.

You make it so tempting to stay up and bicker with.

[synatribe]

Why does this question always come up? Apparently, were all here to pass time. So, why does it matter what one does with their time? If anything, we should ask if you have anything better to do than constantly bitch about what other people do with their time because it's not up to your standards as a superior.

apparently you seem to have forgotten your own post :]

[rnicron]

Except I was quoting a post to prove that you indeed were taking almost every point made in it. It had no other value besides that.

[synatribe]

I dont bitch about how every single thing on createblog is not up to my standards, and Im not asd blunt, only when I need to be, but your blunt in the most unnessary situations.

are you done?, I have more important things to do, if you want me to keep repeating myslef, pm me dont make me spam this thread.

[rnicron]

I love when people make excuses like having better things to do. Aside from that, you haven't repeated yourself once, nor have you provided a nice rebuttal.

Run along...I know you've run out of things to say. I'm sure you'll try to start something again and I'll be there, waiting. Later, kid.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Kevin, what time is it where you live?

If I had better things to do... Well its 1:13 AM.

[synatribe]

post Today, 01:11 AM


I love it to , but I have a research prentation tomorrow and as you can see my time is above, later:] lets continue tomorrow :] if I ran out of things to say I make it obvious but Im not planning on failing my presnetation due to your ignorance :]

[libertie]

Also, I love how people like to make such a bold statement that ALL of the staff members are doing a horrible job, but rather than addressing that they choose to spend their time in an argument that clearly isn't going anywhere.

[rnicron]

Ignorance...and that's why you continue to post.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Aah sleep is that better thing to do. Sleep is nice sometimes. I should probably do that soon. I have to be up at 6.

[rnicron]

Also, I love how people like to make such a bold statement that ALL of the staff members are doing a horrible job, but rather than addressing that they choose to spend their time in an argument that clearly isn't going anywhere.

Example?

[libertie]

see as you can see I wasnt the only person who is overwhelminly annoyed with this kind of practice by the mods, I rarealy even want to contribute to this community anymore because it gets really annoying when for a couple days you get really nice comments and messages then all of a sudden it just abruptly stops because ONE person dosent like it and that ONE person gets the prvallage of getting MOD.
(...)
I am disappointed to see that the mods are partly just completely ignoring my opinion from my HOT thread. NICE JOB SERIOUSLY, KUDOS X 100

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...t&p=2945231






Just seriously, if you're gonna put so much effort into complaining about something, when somebody puts an EQUAL amount of effort (if not more) into acknowledging your post, don't just ignore them. It's counterproductive and a bit hypocritical.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Well Kevin is probably just upset?

[libertie]

That is a good possibility, and I understand that. I calmly responded to him as well as the other two people with the same complaint today, and I have done so in the past. I honestly am not happy about the situation, either; however, it certainly doesn't help matters to say such things about staff but then not acknowledge it when you do get a response from a staff member - a staff member, by the way, whom you've not even had queue issues with in the past.

I am not trying to be snippy with you here, Kevin, I'm just trying to understand you.

[synatribe]

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...t&p=2945231
Just seriously, if you're gonna put so much effort into complaining about something, when somebody puts an EQUAL amount of effort (if not more) into acknowledging your post, don't just ignore them. It's counterproductive and a bit hypocritical.

okay seriously this is going nowhere, I never planned on getting in this whole thing with spencer if you read the post closely, I stated my opinion that I thought this whole accepting rejecting thing was gettin out of hand because not so long ago I posted and Im sorry libertie but when did you ever acknowledge my post?


EDIT:

Kevin, I'm sorry if you feel like you've been ignored. I believe I posted in the topic you made, although I can't find it now. However, you're right, this is an issue that keeps being brought up - all I can do is apologize and say that I don't want it happening to this degree anymore. If you'll look at my posts in both this thread in the other one, I think you'll see that this is not so much the fault of the newer mods. They're simply doing what they've been told, and I was unaware that it had gone this far.

Nat, the person who told you that submissions basically have to be perfect was wrong. I hate to look at it that way, because around here I have never rejected something because of one little thing like a single stray jagged line that only I would notice. Of course our standards should be high, but we honestly need to know when to let things slide.

oo Im sorry I missed your post, im sorry thanks for understanding cause I brought this up and insurmontable said that it would be talked about with the the head and admins but seein thus thread today I was just annoyed that this problem keeps arising, Im sorry I tend to overlook things especially on these forums I wasnt trying ignore you :]

This post has been edited by SkyliteX: May 27 2008, 01:29 AM

[libertie]

Oh man, seriously? =\

I need to start typing in bold faced red font or something. xD

Top of the page. :)
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...t&p=2945297

[rnicron]

Nevermind. I skipped that post.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I would be upset if my stuff got rejected over misinformed staff.

[synatribe]

I would be upset if my stuff got rejected over misinformed staff.

thank XTC, Im more annoyed then upset, its because people pm or email me asking for like the codes to layouts that have been rejected and I dont like being rude so most of the time I give them the code but when i get really lazy I just say I lost the entire layout in general lol :]