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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/

An artist's interpretation
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 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

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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

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

Oops nevermind haha

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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 The_Icon

Nice, another way to build up the community.

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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 benderunit22

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 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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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 Claude

Try it, you might like it.

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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 slowpantz

great feature

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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 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 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 Nik_NYG

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

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Edited By s10129107

you should have a moderation link on the same page!

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Edited By Aaron_G

I like it Ryan, easy to understand and use.

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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 predator

So wait, what happens to images uploaded before this update?
I've got a few images "pending for moderation".

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Edited By Barthez

Also, I'm not sure where to post this but the 404 or 'not found' page still has the ComicVine theme. :X

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Edited By Barthez

Some pages still seem to suffer from that bug =P Example: http://www.giantbomb.com/ivy/94-243/

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Edited By coonce

the 500 bug has been fixed... thanks for your patience guys :)

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Edited By s10129107

all i get is a white page with the text 500, style me dave on there.  who is this dave and where does he get that audacious sense of style

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Edited By JJ
"Hot or Not"
I haven't heard of that in a long time.
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I do like this - user moderation is key to keeping things organised on any wiki website.

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Edited By isaiah

keep an eye out for watermarks there seems to be a whole lot of them.

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Edited By Lepuke

after about 45 minutes I got 500, style me DAVE!!!!!
Woot!
Most of the images are great. Its a shame some of the best had watermarks, and or were redundant.
Or in one case I saw about 20 screen shots from the same game that were taken over about a minute span, so most of em looked like the previous one. In that case I O.K.'ed a couple that stood out and denied the rest.

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It was working for a while but now I'm getting 500, style me DAVE

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Edited By digital_sin

Does it give me points?

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Edited By citizenkane

The new feature is awesome and I can't wait to see how the community uses it.

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Edited By Gregomasta

Sounds like a nifty idea to me, keep em flowing and this site will be flowing.  I'm looking forward to trying this out especially if it helps you guys work more efficiently, my only concern is I would want to see which character, place, object etc... these images are being attached to.  That being my primary concern of image attachments.  Perhaps a link embedded in the picture or next to it leading me to the page upon the picture is being attached to sounds like a simple enough idea.  Either or, just get Dave on this CHET!  Go gamespot!

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Edited By Zeromus1337

500, style me DAVE!!!!!
Best.Message.Ever.
I shall wait.

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Edited By Emiel

Not working right now. It did last night (euro time)

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Edited By MCWHAMMER

If 500 Dave would get to work styling the page, I could try it out.  I can't get past the error page.

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Edited By solidlife

always wanted to mod in some way lol

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Edited By get2sammyb

I get an error: "500, style me DAVE!!!!!". Well I presume that's an error right?

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Edited By samcotts

Some guy calling for Dave keeps harassing me.

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Edited By s-a-n-JR

It's cool, but i'm way too worried about the assholes on the internet...and there are ALOT of them.

 

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Edited By SuperMooseman

Nice, nice. I better get to work!
Hopefully people don't abuse this tool.

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Edited By Hef

Hopefully this will help with the mod process. So now moderators don't have to approve images. I guess that means they can focus more on text based submissions. I'll take anything that's gonna make the moderation process faster.

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Edited By Dante_the_Jedi

Sounds like a really good idea.

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Edited By dietmango

Sounds like a good idea

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Edited By PotatoStrong

The Image Crowd Moderation tool does not jive with me.

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Edited By TomA

I hope tjey don't call it Hot or Not.

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Edited By synt4x

Some tuning and it'll be fine.

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Edited By Kloreep

I agree with Alex_V, I'm concerned about old games' screenshots being rejected because the native resolution is so small. Epecially since that describes most of my own image uploads. ;) But they're all still pending so far...

And I second all the requests for data on the galleries the user is editing. It's hard to approve attaching an image someplace else if we don't know where it's going, and some erroneous new additions could be curbed if we saw what galleries they were going into.

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Edited By lockeyness

Continued approving/denying until I got this message.

500, style me DAVE!!!!!

Hurry it up, DAVE!!!!!!!