Valid nomination rejected insantly due to "low quality photo" (it is not)

I’ve submitted a bunch of nominations from Budapest Zoo and planned to provide them proper descriptions later. But one of my nominations was instantly rejected due to photo quality

I’ve uploaded all of my “upload later” submissions at 03:30, and got only rejection email about “Lions”, not even a “received” one

And I can’t even appeal it due to gibberish in the decription
title: Lions
description: hhh
add info: Gggg
add photo:

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why was this post hidden?

Mod note: removed unnecessary tags

A system flag, i have restored it.

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That’s such a atrange thing to happen, especially considering the picture is beautiful!

I hope the staff here are able to assist

@a1mirr
It may well be that the reason that the system here hide your post is the same one that meant there was an instant rejection.
If this is the case then it is a clear false positive, as it is a good object.
As you were obviously going to edit the text are you close enough that you could do a fresh submission?
If you do it might be worth doing a tight crop on the lions as I have done here

IMG_7998

If this gets rejected here we will see if this helps with the issue.

You can the resubmit making sure you have put the text in from the start.

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Yep, happened to me in the past as well, also with a sculpture. I then successfully appealed but the problem is that as you say for an appeal or for a question to staff on here placeholder text would not work.
I agree with @elijustrying that resubmission with a cropped photo and correct text from the start looks to be the way to go. I know it’s not ideal not to have the opportunity to edit your text afterwards.

Perhaps the family-friendly filter was confused by the lions’ poses and skin tone, flagging the photo as NSFW. If the close-up doesn’t work, maybe try covering the lions’ private parts.

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I see that the nomination (image file) was not uploaded successfully. This is why it was auto-rejected.

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but it’s available on wayfarer page as I show in initial topic :confused:

It may happens sometimes if the file is not uploaded successfully to our servers.

So, if i try again with the exact same images, it should work properly?

Depends on what do you mean by “work properly”. It should behave like any other nomination if uploaded successfully.

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This issue came up elsewhere today. Did you try resubmitting, and did it work?