The queue of submitted images peaked at between 4,000 and 5,000, and currently sits about 2300. About 100 more images are in the hands of an image cropper to take out the background. Upon their return later this month they will go online.
As far as the images in the queue, some are:
- perfect, and just need to get sent to our image cropper
- imperfect (either too blury, or too obstructed--half the machine is blocked by something else)
- awaiting a policy decision (ie: if a videogame entry has 12 screen shots already, does it need another 7? Should there be a limit on the # of screen shots)
- needs verification (does the screen shot really belong to this game? Someone isn't so sure).
- submitted to the wrong game, and the game it really belongs to isn't in the database yet.
The largest category of photos that just sit and sit is probably 'imperfect'.
When a photo is so bad, it doesn't belong on the site, should it go up anyway if no other image is available? In sure cases, should we not bother to crop them but just stick them up (maybe with a subtitle 'temporary image, looking for better one')?
Should there be a minimal size for a submitted image? (We currently throw out a decent number of 5k cabinet gifs/jpgs that get submitted though usually they have some other problem anyway).
If a machine was available both as a dedicated and as a legit conversion, should we have a field to mark so we (and users visiting the site) know that a particular photo is of a conversion and not a dedicated? Or should we not even allow conversion photos online?
I'm writing this very quick this morning as my time is very limited, but in short, in order to 'solve' the perpetual purgatory image queue problem on this site we need to open up the image moderation process to more users. Before we can do that (and anyway needed) we are likely to need some more image policies (and additional image categories, especially for non-videogame machines, ie: 'mech/inside machine photos').
My time around here is extremely limited between now and April 16th, so my ability to participate in the decision will be limited. I at least wanted to get people thinking about it though.
As such, here is a peak at the image queue (for users logged into the main site):
http://www.arcade-museum.com/ir_main.php
It's basically the real admin interface minus most of the 'action' items that admins can do (ie: publish live immediately, approved but send to image editor first, delete, etc.), and minus some confidential info (ie: email address or phone number of submitter).
The one feature that is live is the ability to change the type of photo it is (ie: from 'cabinet' to 'pcb') if it happens to be wrong.
If you are interested, take a look, and then we all (all that want to at least) can be part of an intelligent conversation on same.
Thanks,
Greg
As far as the images in the queue, some are:
- perfect, and just need to get sent to our image cropper
- imperfect (either too blury, or too obstructed--half the machine is blocked by something else)
- awaiting a policy decision (ie: if a videogame entry has 12 screen shots already, does it need another 7? Should there be a limit on the # of screen shots)
- needs verification (does the screen shot really belong to this game? Someone isn't so sure).
- submitted to the wrong game, and the game it really belongs to isn't in the database yet.
The largest category of photos that just sit and sit is probably 'imperfect'.
When a photo is so bad, it doesn't belong on the site, should it go up anyway if no other image is available? In sure cases, should we not bother to crop them but just stick them up (maybe with a subtitle 'temporary image, looking for better one')?
Should there be a minimal size for a submitted image? (We currently throw out a decent number of 5k cabinet gifs/jpgs that get submitted though usually they have some other problem anyway).
If a machine was available both as a dedicated and as a legit conversion, should we have a field to mark so we (and users visiting the site) know that a particular photo is of a conversion and not a dedicated? Or should we not even allow conversion photos online?
I'm writing this very quick this morning as my time is very limited, but in short, in order to 'solve' the perpetual purgatory image queue problem on this site we need to open up the image moderation process to more users. Before we can do that (and anyway needed) we are likely to need some more image policies (and additional image categories, especially for non-videogame machines, ie: 'mech/inside machine photos').
My time around here is extremely limited between now and April 16th, so my ability to participate in the decision will be limited. I at least wanted to get people thinking about it though.
As such, here is a peak at the image queue (for users logged into the main site):
http://www.arcade-museum.com/ir_main.php
It's basically the real admin interface minus most of the 'action' items that admins can do (ie: publish live immediately, approved but send to image editor first, delete, etc.), and minus some confidential info (ie: email address or phone number of submitter).
The one feature that is live is the ability to change the type of photo it is (ie: from 'cabinet' to 'pcb') if it happens to be wrong.
If you are interested, take a look, and then we all (all that want to at least) can be part of an intelligent conversation on same.
Thanks,
Greg
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