Status update on moderation

Just noticed a mistake on the help page you might as well update if you are going to be adding to it today. Under "What Powers Giant Bomb?" the link to YUI editor is incorrectly listed as http://yui.yahoo.com/ instead of http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/

"MasterSplinter said:

"LightYagami245 said:

"Thanks for the info. I have a question though, what about adding characters to a game's character page when the characters are not in your database? Can you guys allow us to create the characters that are not in there already?
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Yes you can submit a character page for the moderators to approve, by going to the characters section and select to add a new character. If you character is submitted, then you can edit it's information and add it to the game's character page you want.
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Thanks for the advice. I was thinking of adding a few, but when I tried to type in the name, it didn't appear.
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I would love to be able to help if I could, but alas I don't really think I can >_>

"I would love to be able to help if I could, but alas I don't really think I can >_>"

"LightYagami245 said:

"MasterSplinter said:

"LightYagami245 said:

"Thanks for the info. I have a question though, what about adding characters to a game's character page when the characters are not in your database? Can you guys allow us to create the characters that are not in there already?
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Yes you can submit a character page for the moderators to approve, by going to the characters section and select to add a new character. If you character is submitted, then you can edit it's information and add it to the game's character page you want.
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Thanks for the advice. I was thinking of adding a few, but when I tried to type in the name, it didn't appear.
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Your welcome. That just means more characters for you to add to up your point total.  ; )
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I believe posts with a certain amount of negative points should be hidden. (with a little notification so users know there is a message they can read if they want)

I know it's hard because some people might just vote negative without a good reason.

voting = more work

no thanks!

Thanks for informing us, Snide. I'm curious to see what you'll come up with.

I think it'll be interesting to see what gets tagged for rejection by the users.

Personally, my suggestion would be that, just like users with over 1000 points can skip the mod queue, only users over a certain point level could vote on images to be uploaded. That way, people who just join the site to reject everything wouldn't be able to. You would have to put in some time to contributing yourself first and I don't think many people would go through that effort just to spoil the site for everyone else. I don't know what the point limit should be though.

Thanks. Update appreciated.

Thanks for the update. Last night there was this guy kept on posting these disgusting pictures and nobody could report him! Hopefully soon we'll be able to do something.

"I believe posts with a certain amount of negative points should be hidden. (with a little notification so users know there is a message they can read if they want)

I know it's hard because some people might just vote negative without a good reason.
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thanks for the heads up

Sounds interesting.

Sweet - thanks for keeping us updated (just as I'd asked in the GB Suggestions thread) +1 kudos! :D

Sounds good Snide, i don't think the majority really care about the submission times at the moment, they just want to help out the community and see their stuff online.

thanks for the update

"I guess you guys are right, as long as they don't say who the screenshot is from

Because I know theres one or two people who dislike me, maybe more"

Nice. I know you guys have your hands full so I'm in no hurry. They will be proved eventually.

"I guess you guys are right, as long as they don't say who the screenshot is from

Because I know theres one or two people who dislike me, maybe more"

This is a really good idea. Giant Bomb = Ultimate website ever

Thx for the update, also i got a question i am got into some betas in the past should i diffenrces in info between beta and full game like in Supcom where the titian missile rack is gone after early beta becuase of balance issues.

Going good so far, keep it up.

Why are submissions not being reviewed in the order they are received? I ask this because some of my text and screenshot submissions have been pending for 50+ hours now, while I see others' submissions going through fairly quickly. My concern is that someone else's article may get approved first even though it was submitted after mine, or that someone may post the same screenshots that I did and theirs will get approved first, so that my submissions are rejected when they are reviewed and I am deprived of points.

Can someone give us a firm answer on whether or not submissions are viewed in the order they are received?

"Why are submissions not being reviewed in the order they are received? I ask this because some of my text and screenshot submissions have been pending for 50+ hours now, while I see others' submissions going through fairly quickly. My concern is that someone else's article may get approved first even though it was submitted after mine, or that someone may post the same screenshots that I did and theirs will get approved first, so that my submissions are rejected when they are reviewed and I am deprived of points.

Can someone give us a firm answer on whether or not submissions are viewed in the order they are received?
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"Why are submissions not being reviewed in the order they are received? I ask this because some of my text and screenshot submissions have been pending for 50+ hours now, while I see others' submissions going through fairly quickly. My concern is that someone else's article may get approved first even though it was submitted after mine, or that someone may post the same screenshots that I did and theirs will get approved first, so that my submissions are rejected when they are reviewed and I am deprived of points.

Can someone give us a firm answer on whether or not submissions are viewed in the order they are received?
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Im curious what the wait time is currently for moderation.

My oldest pending submission is 1 day 20 hours.

Is this becoming common?

"Whoa, so If I submit a solid screenshot or image of a game, if some people decide to be jerks, It won't get posted

Im against the idea

Thanks for the update snide"

"Im curious what the wait time is currently for moderation.

My oldest pending submission is 1 day 20 hours.

Is this becoming common?"

Thanks for the update snide :D

"Official response from Vinny (staff):

We have different queues for images than text so they are being processed at different rates. Other things, like minor changes, are just sometimes faster because they don't take as much time to verify or approve. For the most part though, we are going through all the major content submissions on a first come first serve basis.

The back of the queue is around 58 hours. As you can guess, we're pretty slammed, but working to get things moving faster and faster. That's one of the reasons you may see some of your submissions processed before others, as we refine our approval process.

Let me know if you have any concerns, we're definitely eager to get everyone's stuff up ASAP.

thanks,
Vinny

I am only posting this on the forum because Vinny has given me permission to.
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The system will fail if anyone can use it, though I'm sure you guys will find a nice requirement that's not too hard to reach, but not too easy to get to. That way, hopefully it will go smoothly and avoid abuse.

thanks for the info. i feel sorry for you guys

Cool, thx the update. Btw, what is the rough time estimate for moderaton now? Its been two days and nada. I hoping i'm not the only one, so something isn't wrong with me in particular. I'm not complaining, cos i know you guys have it rough right now, i just want to know if it's standard across the board right now.

I like!

Thanks 4 the update

"Cool, thx the update. Btw, what is the rough time estimate for moderaton now? Its been two days and nada. I hoping i'm not the only one, so something isn't wrong with me in particular. I'm not complaining, cos i know you guys have it rough right now, i just want to know if it's standard across the board right now. "

"Tiago said:

"I believe posts with a certain amount of negative points should be hidden. (with a little notification so users know there is a message they can read if they want)

I know it's hard because some people might just vote negative without a good reason.
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Haven't you noticed that this system is in effect here on Giant Bomb? I quite like it. It's just a flew clicks to hide spammers and jerks.
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What about speeding up the site

"What about speeding up the site"

Lets hope this works.

Site seems pretty fast to me right now, a lot faster than it was yesterday at this time.

I'm not here to complain, I just wonder in what order the submissions are processed. I have images more or less processed, but still have 1 or 2 that I first uploaded that are still pending.

For my wiki edits, some of my newest stuff was accepted pretty fast, but anything I was adding, like Games and Objects etc are still pending on its 3rd day.

Is it by date it was submitted, or alphabetical user name order? or another combination?

Keep up the great work.

You don't put alot of faith in the community BlackWater. Not everyone here wants to see you in agony.

I was just asking that's all, maybe there is an issue that some early submissions are lost.

I do have faith, maybe there is a big issue no-one has seen yet.

Are boxart images being accepted before others? I sent in some boxart for Silver Surfer on the NES and was accepted in no time at all, but I've got screenshots from other games that I sent before Silver Surfer that are all still pending. Sorry if this has been addressed already.

Glad to see its not just me, I find that I add some images, and they got accepted 5 mins later, even tho my other images have been pending for 24 hours+

It seems like some moderators are taking images as they come in at some points, while others are going through the back log. As for text submissions, those I believe are categorized by type (article, blurb, publisher etc..) and then moderated earliest first. You have to remember that text takes a lot more time to moderate than a picture. I have a couple submissions for publishers and similar games that were moderated before blurbs even though they were submitted a good while later. It will all get resolved.