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Can someone tell me why these images were rejected?

post #6659437
post #6673892
post #6692928 (*)
post #6728741
post #6736827
post #7105633
post #7114276
post #7672982 (**)
post #7688949
post #7692940
post #7706490

What's wrong with these images?

OK, and there's a reason I marked those two posts with asterisks. And I'll explain.

In the first post with asterisk: The first image that I uploaded and that was approved was an image by this same artist. However, this second image, by the same artist, and with the same characters (Karla and Fir), was deleted. Why? What's the logic?

In the second post with asterisk: It's the same situation. I uploaded an image of this artist, which was later approved. But I uploaded another image, later, by the same artist, and with the same characters, (Katarina and Lux), which was deleted. Again I ask: By what logic?

Please, I ask: reconsider these exclusions (not only these two cases; the another cases, too).

gfz said:

They're drawn in a very generic 000s anime style, the composition is super bright and there's very little detail on these. It's borderline though probably worth an appeal if you really like them. Tangential to your question, these posts are missing basic tags like hetero and 1boy, you might want to take a look at howto:tag checklist

I see. I will try a bit more I guess. Because I think the artstyle is really good and other similar posts got approved after all.

Provence said:

The issue stated are all integral to the quality of the image.

Sure, if you think treating a few tiny scars on one's face as being equivalent to burning off an entire half of said face is reasonable. Which is most certainly isn't.

If you want to use this topic to cry about the approval process, then you're in the wrong place. Maybe use the appeal topic if you don't want "unreasonable feedback".

E: Ok, seems like that topic doesn't exist anymore. But the point still stands.

I'm not here to "cry about the approval process", I'm here to try and make sense of why an upload that legitimately has no glaring flaws in it - not even something like "the breasts are above the limits stated in gigantic breasts" - is somehow being deemed as "poor quality". And the first answer that I got had flabbergasted me with how it blew out of proportion what few shortcomings may be found in the upload; by its own logic, we should be nuking a huge swath of perfectly acceptable posts across this imageboard just because they aren't "perfect".

wispydreamer said:

I actually think that rough sketch looks more appealing then the finished art you came here to post about. I wouldn't upload it but the pose is much more interesting and the frills on the bikini look better drawn, even in this incredibly rough state, then the frills on the wedding dress art. Having smooth lineart isn't the be all and end all of art quality and that's the only thing post #7723635 has over it.

... You have to be joking, because this makes even less sense than your first reply to me.

PS: In hindsight, being in the middle of a nasty sinusitus flare-up for most of yesterday on top of everything else that has been stressing me for the last several years probably made much more short-tempered and aggressive than normal.

Rhaizen said:

In the first post with asterisk: The first image that I uploaded and that was approved was an image by this same artist. However, this second image, by the same artist, and with the same characters (Karla and Fir), was deleted. Why? What's the logic?

In the second post with asterisk: It's the same situation. I uploaded an image of this artist, which was later approved. But I uploaded another image, later, by the same artist, and with the same characters, (Katarina and Lux), which was deleted. Again I ask: By what logic?

Please, I ask: reconsider these exclusions (not only these two cases; the another cases, too).

We don't judge images based on the artist or the characters/copyright. We don't compare uploads like that, because it makes no sense. We simply look at single uploads and try to figure out if they're good enough for danbooru. The only reason to ever compare images is, when they're revisions or probably duplicates.
Anyway, for only those two images: I don't like how katarinas left leg appears to short and disattached from her body. Everything else is fine, but I can't oversee this flaw.
Second one: It's to simple for me and has some minor flaws that ruin the image for me, so personally I wouldn't approve it.

Nacha said:

We don't judge images based on the artist or the characters/copyright. We don't compare uploads like that, because it makes no sense. We simply look at single uploads and try to figure out if they're good enough for danbooru. The only reason to ever compare images is, when they're revisions or probably duplicates.
Anyway, for only those two images: I don't like how katarinas left leg appears to short and disattached from her body. Everything else is fine, but I can't oversee this flaw.
Second one: It's to simple for me and has some minor flaws that ruin the image for me, so personally I wouldn't approve it.

You spoke about Katarina's left leg. OK, I recognize that there are bad drawings (I don't think that's the case with this drawing), but as for what you said, I'm not a doctor or anatomist, and I suppose neither are you. OK, yes, I check each image to decide if it's worth uploading or not; but I don't really think, with every image I upload, about doing a complex study of the human body to find every tiny imperfection, as the approvers apparently do. My level of criticism has never reached that point.

Man... Honestly, I don't look for an image trying to notice its failures and imperfections. I look for an image that I like. I've tried to think with the approvers' heads, but at some point I got tired, because I want to upload what I like, not what they like.

It seems like the approvers can't understand this - that's what I think.

I am wondering why this higher quality version that I uploaded of an existing post was deleted. The post I uploaded is a .gif from Reddit and the original is a .mp4 from Twitter.

I tagged the Twitter post as a child of the Reddit post I uploaded. It was not approved and deleted, but someone did swap them (i.e. made the Twitter post the parent).

I am very confused. Are .mp4 formats preferred over .gif, even when they are lower quality?

Rhaizen said:

I want to upload what I like, not what they like.

There's nothing stopping you from uploading what you like (besides the upload limit) because they still will be archived even when they get deleted. Just don't be surprised when approvers don't like them.

ekwinoks said:

I am wondering why this higher quality version that I uploaded of an existing post was deleted. The post I uploaded is a .gif from Reddit and the original is a .mp4 from Twitter.

I tagged the Twitter post as a child of the Reddit post I uploaded. It was not approved and deleted, but someone did swap them (i.e. made the Twitter post the parent).

I am very confused. Are .mp4 formats preferred over .gif, even when they are lower quality?

Comparing video quality is problematic at best. You not only have to deal with potential limited numbers of colors (and the banding that comes with it), but actual videos almost always use lossy codecs. In this case, the GIF shows noticable banding, while the MP4 inevitably has some compression artifacts, but still looks better to me overall. I've approved the GIF now for the reasons mentioned above, since 1ups of videos like this are really quite subjective and inconsistent.

Rhaizen said:

but I don't really think, with every image I upload, about doing a complex study of the human body to find every tiny imperfection, as the approvers apparently do. My level of criticism has never reached that point.

If I look at an image and find something I dislike in less than 5 seconds, I probably won't approve it, only if the rest is very good. The modqueue is up to 1000 uploads large, so I don't have the time to think about an image for a minute or more. It's a decision I make in a few seconds, because otherwise I would waste even more time with approving.
You don't have to upload what we like, you have to upload what you like and think is good enough for danbooru. If something gets disapproved, you either had bad luck, didn't see a flaw or we approvers didn't see the upload and approve it after an appeal. If you look at what approvers normally approve, you will get a feeling for what we think is good quality and what not.

Nacha can you look at
post #7447167
post #7522412
you uploaded 57 pictures from the same artist, mostly similar
i know its different now, since the other approvers already decided against them, still

Hi, any feedback on why these post weren't approved? Please give a second chance.
post #7752750
post #6228893

post #7610800
I need help understanding why this was rejected

What's wrong with these Signora posts?

post #7530645
post #7527943
post #7467382
post #7102414
post #7099681

@MF144
post #7530645 - Not entirely bad, but also not really good quality. Zhongli's line-art is pretty mediocre, look at his face it almost looks distorted.
post #7527943 - Theoretically could get approved, posts with similar quality and meme tag have been approved in the past albeit posts with minimal-esque line-art need to have some kind of interesting context to it, which is subjective, so whether or not such posts get approved is up to the approver and whether they like it or not.
post #7467382 - Definitely poor quality. In layman's terms, the line-art is poor and the shading is amateur-level. Not much effort put into the drawing at all.
post #7102414 - Mediocre quality. Not much effort put into the artwork at all.
post #7099681 - Almost passable, but the amateur background makes it look worse and less appealing.

Rhaizen said:

Can someone tell me why these images were rejected?

post #6659437
post #6673892
post #6692928 (*)
post #6728741
post #6736827
post #7105633
post #7114276
post #7672982 (**)
post #7688949
post #7692940
post #7706490

What's wrong with these images?

OK, and there's a reason I marked those two posts with asterisks. And I'll explain.

In the first post with asterisk: The first image that I uploaded and that was approved was an image by this same artist. However, this second image, by the same artist, and with the same characters (Karla and Fir), was deleted. Why? What's the logic?

In the second post with asterisk: It's the same situation. I uploaded an image of this artist, which was later approved. But I uploaded another image, later, by the same artist, and with the same characters, (Katarina and Lux), which was deleted. Again I ask: By what logic?

Please, I ask: reconsider these exclusions (not only these two cases; the another cases, too).

post #6659437 - Breast anatomy looks a bit odd, the position of the nipple to be exact.
post #6673892 - Mediocre level 2000s style art. It being rating:explicit makes it less likely to get approved.
post #6692928 (*) - Mediocre lineart and mediocre shading. Almost fully poor quality.
post #6728741 - Line-art is ok, but the shading is pretty amateur-level.
post #6736827 - Line-art is ok, shading is poor.
post #7105633 - Hair is blurry and the faces are a bit off, idk how to explain it.
post #7114276 - Anatomy has noticeable disproportions.
post #7672982 (**) - Line-art is ok, saturaion is a bit too high.
post #7688949 - Mediocre shading.
post #7692940 - Anatomy is somehwat off, the breasts look too much like balls, that's the impression I'm getting at least...
post #7706490 - The best looking one in this list. Alright quality, the shading is a bitsy bit mediocre, but approvable nonetheless. As for why this post in particular got deleted? That's because it was a duplicate that isn't much of a higher quality than the original. It would have been more likely for it to get approved if this was an uncompressed .png that the artist themselves uploaded on pixiv.

SidBarrett said:

Hi, any feedback on why these post weren't approved? Please give a second chance.
post #7752750
post #6193458
post #6228893

post #7752750 - It looks a bit mediocre. Chibi furry posts aren't the most popular thing on Danbooru so it's more likely to fly over approvers' eyes.
post #6193458 - Shading is mediocre. This type of shading would be more likely to be seen on anime screencaps than on good quality posts on Danbooru.
post #6228893 - Kinda weird line-art? I am getting the impression that the image was stretched and pulled. Coloring is also pretty bad.

Hi there! Could I have some feedback on why post #7664801 wasn't approved?

Curios why this was deleted
post #7758929

waterflame said:

Curios why this was deleted
post #7758929

The artists' early works are Koikatsu screenshots using the game's filters. They eventually started drawing over the models, transitioning to 2D art, but there aren't noticeable drawn parts in this image apart from perhaps the eyelashes for me.

cute zun style
post #7756575