Status update on moderation

Hey all -

Cool, thanks for the update!

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

thx for the update

This will turn into an issue

Good content will never make it now

Some will but alot is goning to be missed because (and I understand) you guys cant handle 20,000 plus submissions a week. I wish you guys had like a bot or something. I submitted alot of good screens and im worried now.

Thanks snide.

ALSO

What if someone finds a few screens of a very old obscure game?

Now it aint ever gonna see the light of day on the site

BlackWater, don't worry. We're on it. The image mod stuff will be completely anonymous on both sides. We've actually got a great idea for it and I'm pretty sure it will greatly alleviate the image wait times.

"BlackWaterCO said:

"ALSO

What if someone finds a few screens of a very old obscure game?

Now it aint ever gonna see the light of day on the site"

What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure he means that people will have the ability to reject images that are obviously not meant for the site. Most of gaming related images will get approved, I'm sure.
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Well I just sent in a huge fix to one of the game's pages and I hope it gets accepted. Ehhh, I just can't wait until I get 1,000 points and have the freedom to edit the pages when I want.
Right now I don't mind waiting a day or 2 for my stuff to get posted.

@snide
As far as the points component goes, I can see it being more points for a higher approval rating of the image. Higher quality images = more points. Also for people who rate images, 1 point for each image you rate can be an incentive for more people to get involved.

"Thanks for the update. I'm interested to see what this mini game will be."

"CaLe said:

"BlackWaterCO said:

"ALSO

What if someone finds a few screens of a very old obscure game?

Now it aint ever gonna see the light of day on the site"

What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure he means that people will have the ability to reject images that are obviously not meant for the site. Most of gaming related images will get approved, I'm sure.
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I Know, but im talking about the people who come here just to be jerks and immature like dawhiteasian, you know he's just gonna hit reject on everything and people who toss up a few good screens that get rejected because some stuck up nerd thinks they look too grainy or doesnt capture said game...its just a little worrysome too me thats all
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Being that this is still the beta, I think this is the perfect time to test this feature. If all goes awry, the feature can still be dropped.

"@snide
As far as the points component goes, I can see it being more points for a higher approval rating of the image. Higher quality images = more points. Also for people who rate images, 1 point for each image you rate can be an incentive for more people to get involved.
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Sounds good, I bet its hard going through 129k images :/ Hopefully some of my over 24 images submissions can go through.

"BlackWaterCO said:

"CaLe said:

"BlackWaterCO said:

"ALSO

What if someone finds a few screens of a very old obscure game?

Now it aint ever gonna see the light of day on the site"

What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure he means that people will have the ability to reject images that are obviously not meant for the site. Most of gaming related images will get approved, I'm sure.
"

I Know, but im talking about the people who come here just to be jerks and immature like dawhiteasian, you know he's just gonna hit reject on everything and people who toss up a few good screens that get rejected because some stuck up nerd thinks they look too grainy or doesnt capture said game...its just a little worrysome too me thats all
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More than one person would need to vote it down, the good people here outweigh the bad
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"We'll likely start with the image queue tools where we're currently building a fun little mini-game so people can anonymously vote on the approval / rejection of content. Yes, there will be a points component to it and yes, we'll provide some failsafes in there to make sure it can't be abused."

That just sounds so awsome. I think that should be a listed concept itself.

"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"

Sounds good man, thanks for the update.

Everyone who wants to participate on approving / rejecting images will have an opportunity. And yes, it will be a multi step process for each and every image that goes through. Just because one person says an image can't be added doesn't mean the next person will think the same.

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

Thanks for the update

My guess is that there will be "x" amount of votes required to be considered. If the approval rating falls below a certain percentage, it will be automatically filtered out. If it is above a certain percentage, it will go straight through to submissions moderators who will have the final verdict. At least that is my theory.

Cool, this system should work, thanks for the update.

I hope none of my submissions are these "stinkers" of which you speak...

cool. thanks for the update snide

Thanks for keeping us up to speed on things. :D

minigame! woho!!

"Snide: I've added answers to the questions that seem to be popping up a lot on an FAQ here - feel free to rephrase/use any questions/answers from there.

Good news on the moderation front - great idea to hand moderation down to the users - looking forward to seeing the results!

Are there plans to allow users to do some backseat moderating on other things? Such as 'reporting' posts and topics with some description of the problem (wrong forum, offensive, etc.), reporting wrong images, rating reviews, etc?
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thanks for the update

I cant wait to see what I come up with. 

thanks for the update snide

thanks for the update Snide.

any word on forum moderators?

"I cant wait to see what I come up with. 
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Good idea. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Plus, you don't want the mods to be overloaded.

"I cant wait to see what I come up with. 
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Or how about you just put a cap on the number of pictures a user can upload in 1 day?
Something like 0-500 points users can only upload 5 per day, 500-1000 can only upload 10. Maybe a little more then that, but you get the idea.

I saw this one user who said he has uploaded over 500 pics already. I mean dam, that's a lot of photos from 1 user. Even if you let us vote there is still going to be hundreds of photos everyday that get uploaded and there is no way we can/want to keep up with all of that.

Seems good it would otherwise take a very long time to get anything posted.

Well there goes my Mindfuck images...
62 images down to 1, man that bums me out...

Another awesome way to involve the community, GiantBomb, just gets better and better.

Looking forward to seeing new screenshots we can vote for. As long as it isn't some stupid rating system like 3 stars out of 5 ect!

nice to know

Sounds an interesting concept, I just hope you guys manage to put together a system which is balanced enough as to not be open to abuse. I don't suppose you would care to elaborate on how the points component will work or is nothing finalised?

Have you guys also considered the request by Djungelurban for a feature where users could delete their pending submissions? This would cut down on the amount of submissions the staff had to deal with as users could delete their submission if they realised they had made a mistake or someone had gotten their submission approved before them etc. The link for the original feature request thread is http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting/33/request-deleting-submissions/3008/

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?

"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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"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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