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Giant Bomb Image Moderation: The Home Game!

We're letting our users get in on some of the content approval fun. Find out how!

As Giant Bomb grows, we'll be adding a number of fun new ways for you to interact with the site. Today we're happy to unveil the new Image Crowd Moderation tool.

http://www.giantbomb.com/image/crowd_moderation/

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An artist's interpretation
It's basically Hot or Not for video games--you'll be "voting" for whether an image attachment submission should happen, and once a submission accrues enough positive or negative votes, it'll either be approved or denied. So how does this work for you? It's simple!

If you see an image attachment submission that you think looks correct (or "hot") you approve it!

If you see an image attachment submission that doesn't jive (that would be "not," folks) you deny it!

There are some basic guidelines on the tool to help you determine whether an image should be approved or not, but if you're unsure either way, just skip to the next image. Staff and moderators will be monitoring this tool with a keen eye, and we'll also continue approving and denying submissions through the primary queue. In addition to the link included in this post, you'll be able to find the tool under the Help section in the top nav. Keep in mind that this is a brand-spankin'-new feature, and we'll be open to suggestions on how to improve it.

The more people that use it, the more effective the Image Crowd Moderation tool will be, so go on over and give it a try!

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Edited By predator

Wait, so what happens to images uploaded before this update?
I still have images "pending for moderation".

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Edited By Aaron_G

I like it Ryan, easy to understand and use.

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Edited By s10129107

you should have a moderation link on the same page!

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Edited By Nik_NYG

Ahh. I accidently approved one w/ a watermark. I'm a terrible person.

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Edited By dietmango

Crap!! I think I must have approved a couple of images with watermarks on them...oops I need to slow down with the approving/disapproving stuff...

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Edited By StressedOutCat

do we disapprove pictures with watermarks that are from the game developers themselves or just the one that are from 3rd party websites ?

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Edited By Lepuke

Any image I see with a watermark on it I have been adding the comment "watermark" too then disapproving the edit.

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Edited By slowpantz

great feature

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Edited By tec3297

1) Show what galleries they are requesting to go in.
2) If they are requesting a new gallery show that
3) Show the game that it is going in
4) A random button (no one wants to approve or deny a million gears of war pics in a row)

More later when I think of it.

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Edited By Claude

Try it, you might like it.

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Edited By Player1

Are we getting points for this. Because my point total mysterious keeps seeming to go up. Idk though. If we are that is awesome.

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Edited By Hungry_bunny

I'd really like to know how the guys in the staff feels about "Early Screenshots" galleries. Personally I don't think they're needed but I see a lot of these galleries and pictures getting approved...

Example: Doom 3

It would be nice to get an official word about it.

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It would be great to have an option to only approve partial submissions for certain galleries. I saw a couple of box arts that were also marked as screenshots or vice versa.

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Edited By Six

Glad to be able to help out.  Looking forward to your update that will allow Opera users to submit article edits.

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Edited By The_Icon

Nice, another way to build up the community.

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Edited By Jayge_

Hey guys- sometimes a glitch pops up and it doesn't say where the user is attaching an already-approved image to. Just saying. I should probably put this in bug reports...

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Edited By dietmango

Oh no!!! No more images to moderate!!! =o

Oops nevermind haha

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Edited By StarFoxA

I love it! The same feature should be implemented for articles.

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Edited By dietmango

I'm liking it. I keep coming back here so that I can live the moderating experience if only for a little bit of it. Stopping those assholes who keep uploading stupid crap in this site is good enough for me to keep doing this. Great idea guys thanks :D