Advice: don't get ants in your pants
Melurra-PGO
Posts: 421 ✭✭✭✭✭
Here's a really easy tip for all submitters to avoid needlessly biasing reviewers against your submission: don't get ants in your pants. Don't use all caps to yell at or talk down to reviewers. Don't get persnickety. Don't try to influence reviewers by saying they are not following criteria if they don't accept your nomination while at the same time providing no details in your description or supplemental information. Don't let irritation at past rejections show through in your nomination text.
Essentially, just leave emotion out of it to avoid eliciting an emotional reaction in reviewers that might cause them to reject your nomination when they would have otherwise accepted it.
Comments
What is it though? :D
You can't spell 👖 without 🐜
Ah, thanks. So obvious now I see it :D
I just let this time out. I simply can't see this as a mouse. No tail, no ears, no nose
I think it's supposed to be a computer mouse, like with a scroll wheel.
I resisted the urge to reject it because of the snarkiness, but I gave it a middling score. I'm not one to judge art nominations on if I personally like the art, but it was hard to see the importance of this piece.
It's whimsical and amusing and if the submitter had taken just a little more effort to describe it and dropped the snark, it could have and should have been an easy 5*. Pity.
Choose your own punch line!
”Marble Mouse” sounds like
A. a children’s board game.
B. an episode of Itchy and Scratchy, guest starring Medusa.
C. a great name for a ska band.
Hrrmmm okay but then its simply poor word description. Since it didn't jump off the page at me.
To channel my inner art critique: I'd have thought if you were going to carve a computer mouse and cut the stone, a small groove from the mouse wheel to the top of the mouse to indicate buttons would have went a long way.
Here's a tip on how you review: Don´t let supplemental text which if not useful should be ignored (with exception of actual abuse) bias your review in any way shape or form. It doesn't matter how annoyed the submitter was when submitting, why should I care, I should care about the merits of the submission not any personal feelings towards the submitter, as you seem to be doing juding by your post.
Analyze why those things get under your skin and fix that, as that's the actual problem here.
As for submitters yeah sure the advice is good too, because there will always be reviewers who can't let it go, but one can't lay blame on the submitter's end for this.
I see you didn't read the whole thread. I already stated that I didn't reject the nomination pictured.
Also, the advice is general; that nomination is just an example.
It's counterproductive to whine in the nomination, but it's so easy to get disproportionately invested in them, so I'm sympathetic.
Me: Sigh. There’s nothing interesting or fun in this area to nominate.
Me: Notices for the first time that a monument sign for a s.trip mall that I’ve driven past hundreds of times has a large colorful decorative tile on it. The tile shows a man with a pick axe standing in front of a valley.
Me: Sayyyy, it’s depicting a MINER. In front of a GORGE. Because this is Gorge Street and we’re across from a quarry that’s been there for more than a century! OMG I *GET IT*.
Me: Goes home and researches the quarry and learns all about how it’s been mined since 1920 and writes up a cool summary explaining this and how the tile is a nod to the history of the area and takes a picture of the tile during golden hour that highlights it perfectly and takes a supporting picture that actually shows the still-operational quarry in the background and explains all this in the supporting info with links and uses a precious, precious upgrade to share this discovery with the world!
Reviewers: It’s a monument sign for a s.trip mall, dumb ****. Not eligible.
Me: Writes I will not get emotionally attached to my nominations on the blackboard 176 times. Again.
Me: Sayyyy, it’s depicting a MINER. In front of a GORGE. Because this is Gorge Street and we’re across from a quarry that’s been there for more than a century! OMG I *GET IT*.
Me: Goes home and researches the quarry and learns all about how it’s been mined since 1920 and writes up a cool summary explaining this and how the tile is a nod to the history of the area and takes a picture of the tile during golden hour that highlights it perfectly and takes a supporting picture that actually shows the still-operational quarry in the background and explains all this in the supporting info with links and uses a precious, precious upgrade to share this discovery with the world!
The fun bit of Wayfererering.
The design of the review page on phones is really unfortunate. I bet most reviewers saw a picture of a strìp mall sign and rejected without even scrolling down to see the title, much less read the supporting info.
Is the scroll bug mildly helps. Maybe. If it doesn't already annoy the reviewer.