In general I love this site. Lots of great photos, a fantastic community, and the ability to share some of my own stuff. Problem is that every once in a while a photo I've taken gets rejected by an ImageMod.

This happened again this week, and the generic 'personal' message I got back included the following: "We feel "snapshot" type photographs are of little interest to most users of the website and do little to enlighten the artistic minded visitor".

Okay, I understand that they don't want simple photos of family and friends. Not a problem. Only thing is that the photo, while a shot of my cat, was anything but a simple photo by the time it was uploaded (over a dozen manipulations were performed, including eye color adjustments, grayscales, depth-of-field, edge fading, face bordering, etc...). In essence, it stopped being a photo a while ago.

Now even this doesn't really bother me, but what does is this: it takes all of ten minutes on the site to find all sorts of nonsense photos people have taken of family, friends, or even themselves (by holding the camera out with one arm). These photos are less art than anything I've ever uploaded, and frankly I just don't get the double standard.

I'm not trying to cause waves or anything, but I really don't understand how a moderator can approve a photo that has no real artsy qualities while rejecting photos that do.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now. It's just irritating to work so hard on something and have it rejected, not because it wasn't good enough, but because a moderator arbitrarily decided to re-classify the image and reject it based on its classification.

I do have one question (which is actually why I'm posting here...not to complain, as hard as that might be to believe): why is there no way to appeal a rejection? If nothing else it'd be nice to respond to a rejection, to give an honest argument for the photo's worth, or to ask for a more detailed explanation of why it was rejected. That'd be pretty sweet.

okay, I'm done with my rant. Still love the site, will still keep uploading and enjoying what others have uploaded. Just a little confused, is all...

-Bob

Personal phitos such as those you mention are generally uploaded to the "Community" gallery. These images are not eligible to be moved to the permanent galleries. The community gallery was created specifically for the purpose of sharing these types of images.

If a member were to upload this type of shot (ie pets, non-artistic family shots etc) to any gallery other than community it would generally be rejected, or moved there.

As far as your own photograph goes I will leave that up to others to make the judgement. Personally I don't like to get involved in second guessing the decisions of others.

I can't comment on the merit of your photo, but as Samatar stated I believe it would be much better suited in the Community gallery.

Another thing is that you uploaded the same image multiple times as well:
18/03/10 6:24
18/03/10 6:43
19/03/10 4:28

Once an image is rejected it's not advised to try to sneak it past the moderators by uploading it again.

I had a photo that did not go onto the site today! It was just a normal picture of a view, nothing that would dictate it being not put on. I just wonder why.

My photo has just gone on the site so if anyone waved a magic wand. Thanks.

A nice view from your balcony is present in the 'new images' gallery though...
Posted 10 minutes ago...

Sometimes you have to wait awhile for your image to be seen it depends if there are any mods online

Ten minutes!!! An outrage!

hehehe.. i've seen a few hours wait

Haha...

Been a while since I posted here, but to address the question of why I submitted the photo multiple times: I won't deny that I was trying to sneak it past the moderators. Guilty as charged! :)

However, it should be noted that at one point in the past I uploaded a photo, I received a confirmation from Moderator A telling me it was approved and published, then received a notification from Moderator B telling me it was rejected.

So my impression here is that all the moderators aren't on the same page, and I thought maybe I'd have better luck with attemp #2. Or #3.

Heh heh...

-Bob

Bob: the approving process has changed now. Caedes made some improvements: actually the mods can see which mod approved/rejected an image. And why...