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Cover Quality Discussion
Azarkhel:
Customs are irrelevant and shouldn't be added to the site, I have no problem with people showing their work here though. The community here is better for it as people are constructive and relatively open minded. VG Boxart can be fucking toxic at times.
In any case I think Segamers point was to illustrate his frustrations with the current upload/approval system.
irvgotti452:
--- Quote from: Azarkhel on July 02, 2013, 06:13:40 PM ---Customs are irrelevant and shouldn't be added to the site, I have no problem with people showing their work here though. The community here is better for it as people are constructive and relatively open minded. VG Boxart can be fucking toxic at times.
In any case I think Segamers point was to illustrate his frustrations with the current upload/approval system.
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I feel if he takes his time and uses less blurring filters and humbles himself his covers could make it. And Akumu is 100% right about tik's acceptance. Till this day I still can't get a couple covers up. But I don't moan about it. I fix em till they are better. I have countless pm's where tik and I discussed ways to make my covers better instead of fighting an assuming that the admins where shitting on me. Pass that I wouldn't even produce anything below that standard. After all this is an artwork conservation site to begin with.
larryinc64:
I thin customs hat look retail should be allowed, especially place of a missing cover.
Stuff like:Vertical custom SNES and N64 covers, Genesis Red Spine conversions from black grid, Et.
Maybe stuff like this SMB3 over I stared awhile ago.
Also, I submitted a few 3DS covers a while back and never heard from anyone about them.
Azarkhel:
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the sites standards should be lowered at all. Perfection is unattainable but should always be strived toward. Getting some covers knocked back isn't going to kill anyone.
Ultimately I think the issue is the communication between those that upload and those that approve that frustrates people. I do understand that this is unavoidable though for the most part, Cover Admin isn't a full time job, it's a hobby. I'm well aware that the business of inspecting, writing notes and messaging people is time consuming and really, not something people want to do after a hard days work at their day jobs.
segamer:
--- Quote from: Azarkhel on July 02, 2013, 06:31:59 PM ---Don't get me wrong, I don't think the sites standards should be lowered at all. Perfection is unattainable but should always be strived toward. Getting some covers knocked back isn't going to kill anyone.
Ultimately I think the issue is the communication between those that upload and those that approve that frustrates people. I do understand that this is unavoidable though for the most part, Cover Admin isn't a full time job, it's a hobby. I'm well aware that the business of inspecting, writing notes and messaging people is time consuming and really, not something people want to do after a hard days work at their day jobs.
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This past month, I downloaded Kid Icarus for NES, Castlevania Adventures II for GB, Little Samson for NES and Castlevania Double Pack for GBA. Not a single one was good. No joke. Little Samson made me vomit in my mouth. I actually found a much better build on the forums. Sad isn't it? I can't tell you how many substandard covers are on the site's data base. I would guess over 50% based on my own experience. So here some simple facts.
Fact 1
There aren't enough members that can making cover that meet site standards.
Fact 2
There aren't enough active cover administrators to approve covers. (As you mentioned, they have lives.)
So, the numbers don't add up. Very little gets done. I'm not sure if the Little Samson on the forums meets site standards but if it's better then the one available on the data base, why not replace it as a placeholder? If Mels rendition of a cover is the only one that exists, why not make it available until a higher quality cover can be produced? I don't agree with Arseen's standards (it's unlikely he would approve a single one of my covers). However, the guy is dedicated and it's why I've petitioned to make him a cover admin. The site desperately needs ACTIVE cover admins.