How about "Bypassed by N mods" in addition to "unapproved in 3 days"

Just a suggestion. Instead of posts being deleted because no mods approved it in 3 days, how about in addition the post has to have been passed over by a certain number of mods. I can see a couple of good reasons for this.
1) maybe if somebody posts during a holiday when nobody is around
2) Might reduce the number of deletion appeals if they already know that this many mods won't approve it

If an image is unapproved in 3 days, it has been bypassed by all the mods.

If you want, you can appeal in the deletion appeal thread which gets read by all the mods as well.

Trust me, mate, three days is quite a gracious period, and every post is seen by at least a fair handful of people. And personally, I don't think the number of times a post has been Hidden really needs to be publicly disclosed.

With that said, the moderation system isn't perfect - but that's why we have the deletion appeal thread.

Granola said:
If an image is unapproved in 3 days, it has been bypassed by all the mods.

But not actively hidden by all the mods, which I believe is what he means.

OP: In your system, if there was a span of 3 straight days where not enough mods were online (unlikely) to meet your "certain number" required for deleting an image, then even images hidden by every available mod would escape deletion. This would potentially allow every garbage post uploaded during that time to remain on the site. Not a good idea.

Enough people see every image in the queue, and with new janitors being appointed, that fact is only becoming more true. Measures like this aren't necessary.

styles_miner said: Just a suggestion. Instead of posts being deleted because no mods approved it in 3 days, how about in addition the post has to have been passed over by a certain number of mods.

The count will never be complete or accurate because not all mods use the "hide" functionality.

Nevertheless, under the current system, every image that is deleted after 3 days has had well over 10 hides on it, which means 10 individual moderators each hid the image. The number doesn't really vary much, either, it's pretty stable on 15 or 16.

Could there be an indicator on each unapproved post that's been brought up in the appeal thread? I know some posts have them, but it'd be convenient to know if a pic's had its second chance or not.

@T5J: If it offers anything, when a post has been flagged and then re-approved, the "Unapprove" links disappears.

I'm also pretty sure that when a post is undeleted, you cannot unapprove it either - so that should be good indicator if a post has gotten a second chance or not.

If I'm reading you right, you think I mean posts that got approved. I mean the ones that stayed unapproved.

So, basically, changing the deletion reason on appealed posts to "Unapproved in three days (appeal denied)" or something like that? I'm not sure what purpose that would serve (unless someone was going through all the deleted posts looking for good ones to appeal), but if it's easy to do with the current Danbooru software, I don't think it's a bad idea, if only to prevent the occasional multiple appeal of the same post.

T5J8F8 said: If I'm reading you right, you think I mean posts that got approved. I mean the ones that stayed unapproved.

The problem is that this would have to be manual. An appeal is just a post in a thread after all. Also, appeals don't really "expire", so I'm not sure when the message would get updated to say it wasn't accepted.