I'm somewhat surprised to see that no one has commented on the current MT submission trend (unless, I actually missed it somewhere?), so I'll start with some Keep.It.Simple.Stupid-type of questions:
Been seeing lots of submissions recently that
-have been posted in the wrong category? (e.g. an official Bleach scan posted into Unidentified)
-mispelled tags?
-posted as the wrong type? Vectors and wallpapers submitted as scans?
-is so naggingly familiar that you'd swear you'd seen it already submitted long long ago? (I am however very
glad to see better quality duplicates, but not so when it's identical or lower quality. Cleaned-up scans are also
one of the gifts I am especially thankful for; kudos to those who spend the effort to make them flawless!)
-suspiciously seem like they were ripped off from someone else, plus no such credit note was mentioned in the
description?
-is so obviously the kind of submission that will be deleted within seconds once a moderator spots it (R-18, R-21,
whatever the local standard)?
etc, misc, yada yadda...
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If you do feel that something is awkwardly out of place, like me, you might have also noticed that the amount of submissions in the recent months has hit an interstellar high.
If you've felt hesitant about bringing this issue up, then most probably you're also like me, one of those fervent idiots that have been *hoping* for exactly these kind of problematic submissions, so that you can report them and gain credits. Plus feel like you've done the right thing along the way.
Well, it's obviously not right enough, since these kind of submissions are still merrily coming in in droves every
week.
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There's roughly a thousand or so more new submissions, every few days I browse through the galleries. With an absurd lot of them simply set up to be deleted. I'm happy that I'm gaining credits through reporting, but each report I do make means that much more work for the moderators, who besides checking and deleting, still have to affirm our reports are valid, have to award the reporters their credits, plus delete the necessary submissions.
Have the submission rules become that slack? It used to be the basic duty on part of the submitting user to filter through the relevant gallery to check for
identical submissions, before they actually posted it. Now, quite often, they just get dumped under
Unidentified, and wait for someone else to report and do their work for them.
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There are exceptions here and there, such as when several hardworking scanners make scans from the latest magazines, and
submit them within minutes of each other, as may be the case (usually pretty obviously not duplicates since the
resolution and colour-tone, etc, will differ). But it seems an undeniable fact that more than many have forgotten the
basic courtesies of checking if their submissions are actually redundant, and placing an unnecessary burden on MT
resources.
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If you do feel like something has gone askew with MT recently, even though the layout upgrade is very very right indeed, please speak out about it! I'm somewhat embarrassed that I seem to be trying to start a courtesy campaign, but it's terrible that MT does seem to be in need of it now.
I don't really have much in the way of constructive suggestions to make now, although I do recall that there was
the Sandbox (plus Zerochan now, for questionable submissions). It may be that it's simply too easy to complete a
submission nowadays. Since there can be funky new categories like "katekh" every few minutes, even though
it's not that difficult to put them into "Katekyo Hitman Reborn!" properly for the user.
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~Alright, I surrender, it's just too stressful for my eyeballs to have to scan through thousands of images every
visit!~ XP
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Well, anyone saying "Aye!" next?