Blue_Trident said:
To be honest, I don't like this idea at all. The random aspect seems like it would just be punishing and frustrating to users that upload/approve good posts. It says: "we trust you to upload/approve, but not fully". If your idea is to provide feedback (which is a fine idea), I think there are far more effective ways of doing that. For the example, the feedback system. It appears to work fairly well in correcting bad tagging behaviour, I see no reason why it can't also be used for bad upload behaviour. Another way to provide feedback would be to create a report system. Rather than flagging individual posts, which might not be noticed amid a lot of other uploads, users could be reported for consistently bad uploads or approvals. These reports would be visible anonymously to the offending user, and otherwise to mods and admins only, who could then take whatever action they see fit, be it nothing, a warning or loss of privileges. I believe that would create much better feedback than having to go through the mod queue randomly again sometimes.
I really don't think bad contributor uploads is as big a problem as it's being made out to be, but admittedly I tend to only look at a few copyrights, so I don't have the best overview of the site as a whole.
+1 for a reporting system plus flagging. I do get upset at posts which barely or don't meet minimum tagging requirements, or ones which are abusing tagme and similar vague tags to simply move into the next upload. I will upload batches at a time, but I will also go back to clean them up. It may take a few minutes, or longer... but I clean up my messes. Not everybody does.
But a random upload to moderation? I already do that to myself by accident often enough, and it just means you're overloading the moderators and approvers even more for no real purpose other than spite. Imagine how many more posts would have to be appealed because only three moderators viewed the post if 5-10% out of every 100 uploads from even five Contributors. The only other option is to remove unlimited uploads, which means those large Pixiv updates don't get uploaded as someone will want to conserve their uploads for the day... and then we lose out on Shino's books, or new artists who have a pool of good work on Pixiv as even Contributors won't risk uploading those good pieces because they'd rather upload sure bets like the latest Zounose or Mizuki Hitoshi art. Then what separates Danbooru from Sankaku Complex?
If the OP or Richie think things are bad now, how will they feel when even more of their posts are deleted due to approvers spending more of their time sorting through all the uploads someone like Province, Sacriven, or gary25556 make a day?
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