Simple question. What do you not like about this site? Wallpapers or scans being
deleted? To many threads to sift through? Arguments or insults thrown at each
other? Well lets hear from ya.
Well.. There's nothing really wrong about MT. Sure A LOT of walls have not been
excepted. I can understand that. If my wall got deleted, sure I'll get all
pissed off, but hey, you gotta accept that your wall is just.. isn't good
enough. That's why I'm going to read a whole bunch of photoshop tuturials so I
can improve My extracting has been getting waay better too...
Oh yeah, not that I don't like it, but there are so many groups on the same
thing o_O That goes for the treads too, but not that much.. I usually just
participate in thread that I find interesting. I'm too lazy to go through all
those threads ' Unless I wanted to start my own.. Which I rarely do now-a-days.
<---- AHAHAHAH I can't
believe I used that word...
The only thing that I dislike is their overboard policy on some drawings (not
quality wise).
There are some arts that have been deleted for being too "explicit". I
fail to see how it was but I won't argue with their choice.
I also hate all the rules there exit about to post in the galleries, last time I
wanted to post a screencap but in less of an hour was erased, I asked where and
how I could post a screencap and I'm still waiting for an answer, because I have
a lot of thing I want to post to show to the other members.
Quote by NeoStryderI also hate all the
rules there exit about to post in the galleries, last time I wanted to post a
screencap but in less of an hour was erased, I asked where and how I could post
a screencap and I'm still waiting for an answer, because I have a lot of thing I
want to post to show to the other members.
* Submissions must have a minimum of one million (1,000,000) pixels, may not be
grayscale images, and must have at least sixteen bits per pixel.
* Submissions must be a manga, anime, or game-related image.
* Submissions must not contain excessive artifacts, folds, or noise, and may
not be blurred, lacking in clarity, oversaturated or undersaturated, too dark or
too light, or be a screenshot.
* All scans must meet a certain standard of quality, to be unconditionally
determined by the moderators. As such, scans that cannot be used as stock images
for wallpapers and do not feature a subject that has at least half of its area
visible are not permitted for submission.
* All scans must have proper credit given to their sources. The statement
"not my scan" or any of its variants may only be used if the member
does not have and cannot in any way obtain full credit for the scan. If members
obtained the scan from a third party image site, members must provide the
original url to the image in the gallery description.
Seeing as most screencaps are very very low res / not of terrific quality...
probably not, unless they meet the above requirements :P
If you had read carefully the message of deletion you recieved you would have
noticed a link answering your question. You can go to http://forum.minitokyo.net/28/anime-pictures-dump/
and create a thread with the low quality image that got deleted... as simple as
that.
There is one thing that bothers me alot about MT, and I've already pointed it
out on several ocasions. I think that the MT policy about wallpapers is a little
bit too strict in regard to the things that aren't allowed. Let me elaborate a
little bit.
1. There is a difference between 'low effort' and 'low quality'. You can use a
few filters or effects, add in a well-extracted stock image and come up with a
very good-looking wallpaper (mind you, I'm not talking about simply taking a
stock image, adding a filter or two, putting a stock and some text on top of
that and poof! comes the wallpaper). But I've had many wallpapers deleted
because of filtered backgrounds, even though I daresay that they were looking
considerably better than some other wallpapers in the gallery that were allowed
to stay (overlooked by the mods maybe?). The backgrounds were clearly not consisting of an image that had been
filtered several times, but of a combination of filters, brushes, blending
effects etc. You might want to reconsider that clause.
2. "Ghosting" can be a neat effect when used properly. I've seen some
wallpapers that used this effect and were extremely good-looking (with no
artefacting, jagged outlines, etc.) and got deleted. Again, you might want to
reconsider this -- not take it out completely, but add a specification, for
instance 'badly-done ghosting' or something like it (I know 'badly-done' is not
the brightest word, but I can't think of any other right now, sorry).
3. Screenshots. In some cases, good-quality they can have their own place in a
wallpaper (for intsance, when you use a 'film strip' effect). Of course, on the
other hand I've seen people who just make a collage of screenshots and label it
a 'wallpaper', but once again, I'm not talking about this sort of
situations.
Again, I'm not saying that you should take out these clauses alltogether. But I
think that you should be a little bit more flexible in judging a wallpaper - as
in, don't have a wallpaper deleted simply because it uses a filtered background,
screenshots or 'ghosting', but take some time to judge the overall quality of
the submission. I think that would be better for all.
[ Wow, long post... O.o Hope somebody will take the time to actually read this
]
One of my main complaints it the inaccuracy of the botchii messages. What I mean
by this is that the reason stated in the botchii message is not the reason the
image was deleted. I have been involved in two such cases.
Once a message was deleted because it was a duplicate. I petitioned the
moderators to show me the original (I had spent hours checking the site to
ensure I was not uploading a duplicated) and it was found that it was not infact
a duplicate. It turns out the image was deleted because the original scanner had
requested that their work not be posted here. I am fine with that. If I had know
that I would not have posted it, but to have it deleted as a duplicate when
there was no duplicate was annoying.
The second case is that four of my images were deleted for "not being
credited" when in fact all four were credited. It turns out that the place
I got them from got them from a source that is not allowed here, but in no way
at all were they improperly credited or missing credits.
I am not familiar with the system the moderators use for sending deletion
messages/reasons, but if they are limited in their reason options perhaps that
list of reasons should be expanded for accuracy sake.
Quote by chisaikamesubmissions dated
about 4 wks+ etc, wouldn't appear as latest faves but only submissions of
recent.. unlike in deviantart.
Do you mean the order in which favs are sorted in user's galleries? Like it's
done by date of submission, not by date of fav? In MT2 it was by date when
faved, it seems version 3 it's different.
Well, the one thing that I discovered annoys me about MT is long userpages. I
think PinkPrincessLacus gets the cake for this one. I think I only went down 1/4
of her page before I got bored, it's so very long.
Quote by Devilet
Do you mean the order in which favs are sorted in user's galleries? Like it's
done by date of submission, not by date of fav? In MT2 it was by date when
faved, it seems version 3 it's different.
..well yeah-.. when i fave artworks.. only those submitted currently, appears as
latest faves (as last '3' marked) in my userpage and not those older submissions
that i have also faved but would end up somewhere on page 2 etc.
Quote: I don't like how you have to sign up in order to
download the images. And my free download quota can never be too
high...
We have to prevent MT from turning into 4chan somehow. Just
contribute, and you'll have credits to supplement your
quota.
what's wrong with 4chan? i agree having to do all this
work to download a picture is unfair. I mean my credits are screwd up and I only
get 5 fdq. THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO INCRESE IT! I mean there are almost 100k
pictures. It's not far i only got 10 credits to start with. People Who were here
early like first day, or when the downloads were free are fine im sure, but what
about the new comers? we should atleast be able to download the pictures that
were submitted before we joined for free. yes I want to download the whole
gallery because this is the single greast place of anime pictures i have seen,
ironicly i wont be able to get them. I seriously think that is unfair
Quote by Backburnerwhat's wrong with
4chan? i agree having to do all this work to download a picture is unfair. I
mean my credits are screwd up and I only get 5 fdq. THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO
INCRESE IT! I mean there are almost 100k pictures. It's not far i only got 10
credits to start with. People Who were here early like first day, or when the
downloads were free are fine im sure, but what about the new comers? we should
atleast be able to download the pictures that were submitted before we joined
for free. yes I want to download the whole gallery because this is the single
greast place of anime pictures i have seen, ironicly i wont be able to get them.
I seriously think that is unfair
Firstly, 4chan has heaps of bandwidth eaten up hungrily by people who don't
contribute or post. They might like it that way, and so do you, but how is it unfair that you have to do "work"
to download more?
It's like you own a farm. You work hard, you get the goods.
Imagine some thief coming along and taking all your crops. THAT is
unfair.
It was because of this that we implemented the credits system. There were some
people who made excellent contributions (say very nice and thoughtful posts) but
their levels never quite increased to level 10 until after a while. While those
other rippers, spammers, and even scan dupe submitters would have their level
temporarily bumped up and they could download whatever they wanted until their
items were deleted or whatever. By then they would have established some sort of
friendship base and would have had their levels skyrocketting.
That's something I would find UNFAIR.
And for your information, Minitokyo is not some place for you to go and grab all
the pictures! Mt3 was implemented to get rid of all those leechers. FDQ was 30
and then decreased to 5 for a reason.
There are other places where you can download high quality images.
And your argument about "free downloads" is not a valid one, because I
don't find myself losing any money from my wallet downloading anything as such.
Credits are not real money. In reality it doesn't really "cost" you
anything to download. In fact, the whole website is for free.
And after writing all that, I know for a fact many people do go and download
from/ prefer using 4chan. And that's fine by me. I still think that Minitokyo
has a fair system, because those who contribute and truly care about the
community in return can get some form of reward.
I have problem with the deleted pictures that still be displayed at other's
submission. I like to jump from one account 2 another, but that is not all. The
deleted submission also appear at the 3 newest submission at the donload page
and their account.
I don't have any objection against credit system, i really like it. i really
hate someone trying to rob what i have gained. Can we increase total fdq by
contributing? or can someone gain credit if somebody download their scans /
wallpaper?
Thank you for reading. I'm sorry if anything is wrong
Quote by LichkingI have problem with the
deleted pictures that still be displayed at other's submission. I like to jump
from one account 2 another, but that is not all. The deleted submission also
appear at the 3 newest submission at the donload page and their account.
I don't have any objection against credit system, i really like it. i really
hate someone trying to rob what i have gained. Can we increase total fdq by
contributing? or can someone gain credit if somebody download their scans /
wallpaper?
Thank you for reading. I'm sorry if anything is
wrong
It's already been said the thumbnails will eventually be expired, just click
view [member's] gallery and you won't have that problem, and it shows in order
of date. Although you still get that extra page once in a while with no items to
display.
I highly doubt they'll ever up the fdq no matter how much we keep complaining.
That's how it is, let's just use them wisely.
Quote by Backburnerwhat's wrong with
4chan? i agree having to do all this work to download a picture is unfair. I
mean my credits are screwd up and I only get 5 fdq. THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO
INCRESE IT! I mean there are almost 100k pictures. It's not far i only got 10
credits to start with. People Who were here early like first day, or when the
downloads were free are fine im sure, but what about the new comers? we should
atleast be able to download the pictures that were submitted before we joined
for free. yes I want to download the whole gallery because this is the single
greast place of anime pictures i have seen, ironicly i wont be able to get them.
I seriously think that is unfair
Firstly, 4chan has heaps of bandwidth eaten up hungrily by people who don't
contribute or post. They might like it that way, and so do you, but how is it unfair that you have to do "work"
to download more?
It's like you own a farm. You work hard, you get the goods.
Imagine some thief coming along and taking all your crops. THAT is
unfair.
It was because of this that we implemented the credits system. There were some
people who made excellent contributions (say very nice and thoughtful posts) but
their levels never quite increased to level 10 until after a while. While those
other rippers, spammers, and even scan dupe submitters would have their level
temporarily bumped up and they could download whatever they wanted until their
items were deleted or whatever. By then they would have established some sort of
friendship base and would have had their levels skyrocketting.
That's something I would find UNFAIR.
And for your information, Minitokyo is not some place for you to go and grab all
the pictures! Mt3 was implemented to get rid of all those leechers. FDQ was 30
and then decreased to 5 for a reason.
There are other places where you can download high quality images.
And your argument about "free downloads" is not a valid one, because I
don't find myself losing any money from my wallet downloading anything as such.
Credits are not real money. In reality it doesn't really "cost" you
anything to download. In fact, the whole website is for free.
And after writing all that, I know for a fact many people do go and download
from/ prefer using 4chan. And that's fine by me. I still think that Minitokyo
has a fair system, because those who contribute and truly care about the
community in return can get some form of reward.
easy for you
to say, i bet you were here when download were free, plus you a mod, you could
download the entire galley today if you wanted to. a luxery someone new like me
sadly doesn't have. i can understand working to download the pictures here but
there are so many, and we get so little credits when we post comments, or
subbmit pictures, and fdq is only and from what i hear will always be 5. aside
from that the mt mods will not tell us everything that will increase our
credits. i know its to prevent spamming, but what about those who don't spam,
and like you said give good contributions, it's not fair to them. I dont know
about everyone else but even if the downloads were free i would still subbmit
scans, and post on comments. so what if there some leachers, even with this
credit system they will find a shortcut to download all they want. If you ask me
you should stop worrying about them. aslong as people are here posting comments
and subbmiting scans and wallpapers it would be fine. but that's just what i
think. i really would like to download the previous picture posted before I
joined, but no matter work I do i find it impossible to do that AND keep up with
the new subbmissions. THAT is what I think is unfair.
My only bone with the site so far is a limitation of how deleted/quarantined
pics are handled. I have no problem with the actual decision to delete or
quarantine, but what bothers me is that officially generated thumbnail links to
those items are not updated. I find I like the style/taste of a particular user,
and so browse through their other works thumbnailed on the side -- often leading
to items that were deleted long ago. I really wish these thumbnails were deleted
at the same time.
Quote by davidfoxwvMy only bone with
the site so far is a limitation of how deleted/quarantined pics are handled. I
have no problem with the actual decision to delete or quarantine, but what
bothers me is that officially generated thumbnail links to those items are not
updated. I find I like the style/taste of a particular user, and so browse
through their other works thumbnailed on the side -- often leading to items that
were deleted long ago. I really wish these thumbnails were deleted at the same
time.
This is actually a bug of the system, and as far as I know Sheqel has been
looking into and trying to alleviate the problem. It's gotten a little better -
stuff actually disappears after the quarantine date expires, but the thumbnails
do not yet seem to automatically disappear with the submission.
I agree with chisaikame about the faves thing, because I tend to fave older
stuff... I wish it could be somehow randomized...
Also, I wish we could add someone to both the friendlist and watchlist, or at
least have a choice of whether to add someone as one, the other, or
both.
yeah like davidfoxwv said, the thumbnail thing is a bit annoying, esp when
you're doing a search for a scan or something...
I have no problems with the credit system or maintaining the quality.
yeah the long user pages are annoying, but what's more annoying is how some
people put loud music on their
userpages, so that all of a sudden your ears get blasted while you're listening
to your own music...
Is the sidebar when viewing gallery items the only place where deleted items
show up? Or are there other palces as well? I just made it so that deleted
submission don't show there anymore.
Simple question. What do you not like about this site? Wallpapers or scans being deleted? To many threads to sift through? Arguments or insults thrown at each other? Well lets hear from ya.
Well.. There's nothing really wrong about MT. Sure A LOT of walls have not been excepted. I can understand that. If my wall got deleted, sure I'll get all pissed off, but hey, you gotta accept that your wall is just.. isn't good enough. That's why I'm going to read a whole bunch of photoshop tuturials so I can improve
My extracting has been getting waay better too...
Oh yeah, not that I don't like it, but there are so many groups on the same thing o_O That goes for the treads too, but not that much.. I usually just participate in thread that I find interesting. I'm too lazy to go through all those threads
' Unless I wanted to start my own.. Which I rarely do now-a-days.
<---- AHAHAHAH 
I can't
believe I used that word...
The only thing that I dislike is their overboard policy on some drawings (not quality wise).
There are some arts that have been deleted for being too "explicit". I fail to see how it was but I won't argue with their choice.
I also hate all the rules there exit about to post in the galleries, last time I wanted to post a screencap but in less of an hour was erased, I asked where and how I could post a screencap and I'm still waiting for an answer, because I have a lot of thing I want to post to show to the other members.
From http://support.minitokyo.net/policy/ on scans:
* Submissions must have a minimum of one million (1,000,000) pixels, may not be grayscale images, and must have at least sixteen bits per pixel.
* Submissions must be a manga, anime, or game-related image.
* Submissions must not contain excessive artifacts, folds, or noise, and may not be blurred, lacking in clarity, oversaturated or undersaturated, too dark or too light, or be a screenshot.
* All scans must meet a certain standard of quality, to be unconditionally determined by the moderators. As such, scans that cannot be used as stock images for wallpapers and do not feature a subject that has at least half of its area visible are not permitted for submission.
* All scans must have proper credit given to their sources. The statement "not my scan" or any of its variants may only be used if the member does not have and cannot in any way obtain full credit for the scan. If members obtained the scan from a third party image site, members must provide the original url to the image in the gallery description.
Seeing as most screencaps are very very low res / not of terrific quality... probably not, unless they meet the above requirements :P
NeoStryder,
If you had read carefully the message of deletion you recieved you would have noticed a link answering your question. You can go to http://forum.minitokyo.net/28/anime-pictures-dump/ and create a thread with the low quality image that got deleted... as simple as that.
If you had only read.
I don't like how you have to sign up in order to download the images. And my free download quota can never be too high...
We have to prevent MT from turning into 4chan somehow.
Just
contribute, and you'll have credits to supplement your quota.
There is one thing that bothers me alot about MT, and I've already pointed it out on several ocasions. I think that the MT policy about wallpapers is a little bit too strict in regard to the things that aren't allowed. Let me elaborate a little bit.
1. There is a difference between 'low effort' and 'low quality'. You can use a few filters or effects, add in a well-extracted stock image and come up with a very good-looking wallpaper (mind you, I'm not talking about simply taking a stock image, adding a filter or two, putting a stock and some text on top of that and poof! comes the wallpaper). But I've had many wallpapers deleted because of filtered backgrounds, even though I daresay that they were looking considerably better than some other wallpapers in the gallery that were allowed to stay (overlooked by the mods maybe?). The backgrounds were clearly not consisting of an image that had been filtered several times, but of a combination of filters, brushes, blending effects etc. You might want to reconsider that clause.
2. "Ghosting" can be a neat effect when used properly. I've seen some wallpapers that used this effect and were extremely good-looking (with no artefacting, jagged outlines, etc.) and got deleted. Again, you might want to reconsider this -- not take it out completely, but add a specification, for instance 'badly-done ghosting' or something like it (I know 'badly-done' is not the brightest word, but I can't think of any other right now, sorry).
3. Screenshots. In some cases, good-quality they can have their own place in a wallpaper (for intsance, when you use a 'film strip' effect). Of course, on the other hand I've seen people who just make a collage of screenshots and label it a 'wallpaper', but once again, I'm not talking about this sort of situations.
Again, I'm not saying that you should take out these clauses alltogether. But I think that you should be a little bit more flexible in judging a wallpaper - as in, don't have a wallpaper deleted simply because it uses a filtered background, screenshots or 'ghosting', but take some time to judge the overall quality of the submission. I think that would be better for all.
[ Wow, long post... O.o Hope somebody will take the time to actually read this
]
One of my main complaints it the inaccuracy of the botchii messages. What I mean by this is that the reason stated in the botchii message is not the reason the image was deleted. I have been involved in two such cases.
Once a message was deleted because it was a duplicate. I petitioned the moderators to show me the original (I had spent hours checking the site to ensure I was not uploading a duplicated) and it was found that it was not infact a duplicate. It turns out the image was deleted because the original scanner had requested that their work not be posted here. I am fine with that. If I had know that I would not have posted it, but to have it deleted as a duplicate when there was no duplicate was annoying.
The second case is that four of my images were deleted for "not being credited" when in fact all four were credited. It turns out that the place I got them from got them from a source that is not allowed here, but in no way at all were they improperly credited or missing credits.
I am not familiar with the system the moderators use for sending deletion messages/reasons, but if they are limited in their reason options perhaps that list of reasons should be expanded for accuracy sake.
Well I don't understand why some of my pic post have been refuse or deleted. I would like to receive a better explained reason.
submissions dated about 4 wks+ etc, wouldn't appear as latest faves but only submissions of recent.. unlike in deviantart.
Is there such a thing?
Do you mean the order in which favs are sorted in user's galleries? Like it's done by date of submission, not by date of fav? In MT2 it was by date when faved, it seems version 3 it's different.
Well, the one thing that I discovered annoys me about MT is long userpages. I think PinkPrincessLacus gets the cake for this one. I think I only went down 1/4 of her page before I got bored, it's so very long.
..well yeah-.. when i fave artworks.. only those submitted currently, appears as latest faves (as last '3' marked) in my userpage and not those older submissions that i have also faved but would end up somewhere on page 2 etc.
what's wrong with 4chan? i agree having to do all this work to download a picture is unfair. I mean my credits are screwd up and I only get 5 fdq. THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO INCRESE IT! I mean there are almost 100k pictures. It's not far i only got 10 credits to start with. People Who were here early like first day, or when the downloads were free are fine im sure, but what about the new comers? we should atleast be able to download the pictures that were submitted before we joined for free. yes I want to download the whole gallery because this is the single greast place of anime pictures i have seen, ironicly i wont be able to get them. I seriously think that is unfair
Firstly, 4chan has heaps of bandwidth eaten up hungrily by people who don't contribute or post. They might like it that way, and so do you, but how is it unfair that you have to do "work" to download more?
It's like you own a farm. You work hard, you get the goods.
Imagine some thief coming along and taking all your crops. THAT is unfair.
It was because of this that we implemented the credits system. There were some people who made excellent contributions (say very nice and thoughtful posts) but their levels never quite increased to level 10 until after a while. While those other rippers, spammers, and even scan dupe submitters would have their level temporarily bumped up and they could download whatever they wanted until their items were deleted or whatever. By then they would have established some sort of friendship base and would have had their levels skyrocketting.
That's something I would find UNFAIR.
And for your information, Minitokyo is not some place for you to go and grab all the pictures! Mt3 was implemented to get rid of all those leechers. FDQ was 30 and then decreased to 5 for a reason.
There are other places where you can download high quality images.
And your argument about "free downloads" is not a valid one, because I don't find myself losing any money from my wallet downloading anything as such. Credits are not real money. In reality it doesn't really "cost" you anything to download. In fact, the whole website is for free.
And after writing all that, I know for a fact many people do go and download from/ prefer using 4chan. And that's fine by me. I still think that Minitokyo has a fair system, because those who contribute and truly care about the community in return can get some form of reward.
I have problem with the deleted pictures that still be displayed at other's submission. I like to jump from one account 2 another, but that is not all. The deleted submission also appear at the 3 newest submission at the donload page and their account.
I don't have any objection against credit system, i really like it. i really hate someone trying to rob what i have gained. Can we increase total fdq by contributing? or can someone gain credit if somebody download their scans / wallpaper?
Thank you for reading. I'm sorry if anything is wrong
It's already been said the thumbnails will eventually be expired, just click view [member's] gallery and you won't have that problem, and it shows in order of date. Although you still get that extra page once in a while with no items to display.
I highly doubt they'll ever up the fdq no matter how much we keep complaining.
That's how it is, let's just use them wisely.
easy for you to say, i bet you were here when download were free, plus you a mod, you could download the entire galley today if you wanted to. a luxery someone new like me sadly doesn't have. i can understand working to download the pictures here but there are so many, and we get so little credits when we post comments, or subbmit pictures, and fdq is only and from what i hear will always be 5. aside from that the mt mods will not tell us everything that will increase our credits. i know its to prevent spamming, but what about those who don't spam, and like you said give good contributions, it's not fair to them. I dont know about everyone else but even if the downloads were free i would still subbmit scans, and post on comments. so what if there some leachers, even with this credit system they will find a shortcut to download all they want. If you ask me you should stop worrying about them. aslong as people are here posting comments and subbmiting scans and wallpapers it would be fine. but that's just what i think. i really would like to download the previous picture posted before I joined, but no matter work I do i find it impossible to do that AND keep up with the new subbmissions. THAT is what I think is unfair.
My only bone with the site so far is a limitation of how deleted/quarantined pics are handled. I have no problem with the actual decision to delete or quarantine, but what bothers me is that officially generated thumbnail links to those items are not updated. I find I like the style/taste of a particular user, and so browse through their other works thumbnailed on the side -- often leading to items that were deleted long ago. I really wish these thumbnails were deleted at the same time.
This is actually a bug of the system, and as far as I know Sheqel has been looking into and trying to alleviate the problem. It's gotten a little better - stuff actually disappears after the quarantine date expires, but the thumbnails do not yet seem to automatically disappear with the submission.
I agree with chisaikame about the faves thing, because I tend to fave older stuff... I wish it could be somehow randomized...
Also, I wish we could add someone to both the friendlist and watchlist, or at least have a choice of whether to add someone as one, the other, or both.
yeah like davidfoxwv said, the thumbnail thing is a bit annoying, esp when you're doing a search for a scan or something...
I have no problems with the credit system or maintaining the quality.
yeah the long user pages are annoying, but what's more annoying is how some people put loud music on their userpages, so that all of a sudden your ears get blasted while you're listening to your own music...
Is the sidebar when viewing gallery items the only place where deleted items show up? Or are there other palces as well? I just made it so that deleted submission don't show there anymore.