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Uploading Covers for games without any?
Bear78:
Just as an FYI, Gurus cannot approve covers for the site (or at least I haven't found a way to do it :P ).
--- Quote from: ScreamingNarwhal on August 26, 2019, 11:00:08 AM ---Is there any way we can help with the process? There is so much good stuff in this website it would be awful if it just slowed down and died when there are so many willing contributors.
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I don't know what the answer to this is.... a lot of people are just busy (especially during the summer, me included) and the queue (which I have no idea what it looks like) is supposedly huge. You either have to get some of the staff to dedicate some time to start looking at covers or start getting some new staff members that have time on board.
Snowcone:
--- Quote from: Bear78 on August 26, 2019, 11:06:58 AM ---Just as an FYI, Gurus cannot approve covers for the site (or at least I haven't found a way to do it :P ).
--- Quote from: ScreamingNarwhal on August 26, 2019, 11:00:08 AM ---Is there any way we can help with the process? There is so much good stuff in this website it would be awful if it just slowed down and died when there are so many willing contributors.
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I don't know what the answer to this is.... a lot of people are just busy (especially during the summer, me included) and the queue (which I have no idea what it looks like) is supposedly huge. You either have to get some of the staff to dedicate some time to start looking at covers or start getting some new staff members that have time on board.
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Maybe that needs to be revised.... if only there was someone out there that could change such rules.
PX0:
I know that gurus cannot add covers to the site. ;) But at least rockabilly1983's covers were usually added almost instantly (a day or two after he posted them to the forums). Which means they either got priotized or added without much of a thought.
So far only 32 covers have been added to the site in all of 2019. (Not counting dublicate entries / identical covers, that just have a different case format.) 7 are from admins, so were added without approval process. 14 are from rockabilly1983 and 11 from others.
That makes 25 approved covers (at best) or 2,5 covers per cover admin in 8 month.
To be clear, I don't want to call anyone out. I am sure everyone has their reasons. :)
I just think blaming the upload cue is misleading. It suggests that you just have to wait a bit longer for your cover to be approved. (NOTE: It used to be 2 Weeks according to the FAQ.) But as it looks right now, even if the upload cue is just around 100 covers (and it is probably much more), you will be waiting for years...
So a more truthfull anwser would be, that you simply cannot contribute to the site at the moment.
Arseen:
Biggest slowdown besides the buziness is that to check the covers one has to first download them, and people upload such garbage that it's not funny, so after a while one gets monotonous.
That's why covers of Admins (which are always good) and members whose covers are known to be good tend to get fastracked.
If member shows that their covers are up to par we tend to quite fast make them Gurus, or at least try to remember them for faster checking.
That's why I suggest that people instead upload to Mediafire and link to the boards so we see the preview as that usually tells quite easily is the cover worth closer look.
Or if you want to submit bigger batch use Box as it has free mass download option.
ON THAT NOTE:
If someone thinks their covers are up to par please do upload to Mediafire and post to a topic named something like please judge my cover, and I will check them.
Decent tries will get more detailed encouragement, but if the cover is crap the feedback will be short and brutal.
segamer:
I haven't been posting to the site because, when I post, there's no thumbnail image until snowcone fix's it. I'm just waiting for the site to get fixed.