Thanatos_Prime

And compilation is now a Genre NIIIIICE! And so much easier to tell if Clear logos really are clear!

Firstly, I love many of the new changes to moderations format. The dark theme is going to be a blessing on days when I am battling a migraine. What I have an issue with is that the game does not show the platform for which you are making changes. This comes into play when I am approving screenshot images as we tend towards ones that match the original resolution of the platform and surely will come into play when approving box art of all kinds. Additionally, you only get a "preview view" of the primary game box, having that right in front of me has saved much time in the past so it will be hard to part with that. Thank you for the attention to our side of things and for the wonderful program and site!

I have a few changes made 11/15/2023. In this case they do have a single rejection each and 14 approvals. Additionally, my account as I get close to having all but these 4 items approved my total pending changes goes into the negatives. Looks like if everything gets approved I would be at -14 (negative 14).

Gotcha, if we have people skipping these fixes because of the level of fatigue with change requests and subsequent corrections for the Developer and Publisher fields. I can understand that very vividly.

To keep you posted, this particular item (above), which was submitted on the 27th of last month was finally accepted with no rejections this morning the 8th, a dozen days later, and with significantly lower moderation traffic these last few days. Meanwhile, there are still items from October waiting to be approved, one is attached .

Sure here is one of the earliest ones:

Since the updates earlier this year that randomized the moderation queue things have taken longer and longer to get moderated. I currently have several items that were submitted on 10/27 in the early morning still awaiting 3 votes. There are zero rejections on these items, but still they wait. I have plenty of other submissions since then that have been approved. It feels like some part of the process has broken down.

One of the changes made in these updates to the Moderation of the DB was a randomization of the order in which changes get moderated. It used to be that a moderator would see the changes made in order of submission. In the new setup they are presented with some sort of weight system as to what gets addressed first, which is fine. However, the randomization breaks down when we have large volumes of change as we have had since someone/ones decided that all the Publisher and Developer names should no longer contain company info. Since then the volume of changes has far outstripped the ability of moderators to keep up with the changes. This means that on the 3rd of November I still have items with zero rejections that were submitted in the early morning of the 27th that are pending. Perhaps this is a reflection on the amount of people we have moderating, but I really think it comes down to that randomization. I'm not sure that I have a solution to present, perhaps the randomization needs to be tweaked in some fashion. Perhaps we need to attract more people to moderation or limit the amount of changes one person can enter in a given time period to allow issues like this to not arise.

Yes, normally if they do NOT have the same developer, then they are different games. The ones linked above, where one is now deleted had different developers. And the Scuba Diver and Sea Hunt 2600 games where Scuba Diver is currently on the chopping block have two different developers. I again am voting NOT to merge the two for this reason. https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/41029-scuba-diver https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/28818-sea-hunt

While we are on the subject here I would like to bring up that if you have 2 games that look the same, but they have 2 different developers, I would expect that they would be considered different games. Thoughts?

Give us links to both games and we can help you figure it out.

That thread is a box of spiders and I am not going to open the lid an inch. Thanks though!

Sorry to necro an old thread but I was looking for an update on the recent 10 Year Anniversary livestream event and giveaway. Where would be the best place to look for that information?

Getting this over and over again this morning while trying to moderate:

It is at 27 approvals now, still pending.

Thank you!

"The way Launchbox is coded, it will automatically detect if the box spine runs vertically or horizontally and it will add the spine accordingly to the 3D image." Can I get a citation for this or a confirmation of this? Trying it on my own has not yielded positive results.

I still have one outstanding item, a C128 game that I accidentally added with scanlines on, which I will fix after approval or disapproval. It was submitted 3/16, and this is the current status as of this minute.

YES!!!

Despite still working through the issues, the speed is just breathtakingly fast for moderations. As soon as I verify sources and click to approve it is on the next moderation in a flash! Absolutely outstanding!!

To be clear the banning is for the images he uploaded, not the creation of the game itself, correct? Games can be created and modified as long as the content does not contain nudity or pornography?

I need help with this one: tried matching fonts and clearing out the background. Everything I try ends up looking like crap. Any help appreciated, want clear logo for Breakin' Briks for Amiga. There is no box, it is a homebrew. Here is the title screen.

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of games missing data. So very many things to do with the time given us, be a good steward of the time you've been given. Remember, if it is already in the DB, it has been moderated by at least 3 people in the past and approved. I'm not saying there might not be "smut" buried in there somewhere, and possibly some things that came in before Jason made his will fully clear that still need to be cleaned out, but pick your targets.

This is saddening and somewhat ridiculous. From my perspective, I guess it would depend on the bare buttocks, but what was indicated previously was showing a man's penis, a woman's bare breasts or vagina...actual nudity. Someone in a swimsuit should be fine. If the graphic has a clear bikini top and you can completely see the areola, that probably counts as nudity. A bare, swimsuit-less butt is possibly over the line, I guess it would depend on how it was presented. That kind of thing can be handled somewhat modestly. That said, you seem to be wanting a dev response, but here is mine. This is a pretty divisive issue and has lost us some moderators in the past, I hope we don't have a rash of prudish deletes coming our way. I realize that this is a DB run by a man of faith and I respect that, but video games embrace a lot of different mindsets and mentalities and I hope we can give those with other opinions on this matter a space in the DB to fully enjoy Launchbox as well.