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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 Schizoid

If it says it already exists, that means a moderator has approved it, if you agree with the moderators decision click approve, if you don't then disapprove.

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Edited By Zripwud

Great idea guys!

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Edited By JJGIANT

too HOT to jaywalk

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Edited By RedSox8933

huh. cool

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Edited By Wei12do

I can see this going wrong but it can't hurt to try!!

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Edited By imayellowfellow

so i supposed we should just make sure the words in bold say " this is a brand image a user has uploaded"

and then of course chekc for correct gallery and watermark free?

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Edited By gditz

Works well so far. Nicely done fellows.

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Edited By davecuk

Some of the images appear to be attached to no galleries, I guess these should be rejected? Some also say they already exist how is this checked, by file name and size or what?

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Edited By Vlademir

Awesome. I'll go check it out.

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Edited By simulation

deeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEeeecent

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Edited By Spiritof

I'm already a bit confused. Are you really getting that many submissions that don't have a caption? Without it I'm pretty confused at what I'm even looking at. It's a cool tool, but peoples need to be giving me at least a small hint at what I'm looking at.

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Edited By CharleyTony

Jeff, all those moderation tool, wher do you guys come up with em ? this is just awesome !

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Edited By KillerFly

Nice.  Another reason this site is so awesome.

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Edited By banksrob

lol awesome dude, shame i can only do it for 4 hours now

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Edited By myzticaznfool

very nice

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Edited By snide

Just a note that we will be adding some point based scoring and leaderboards to this tool, but didn't want to throw that in too quickly without some heavy testing (this weekend) on it.


Thanks for helping out guys, hopefully this should put moderation back in the hands of the users where it should be.
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Edited By Spiritof

Hot!

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Nice stuff, sounds like we're working towards taking some of the workload off the moderators.

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Edited By Ryan  Staff

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!