[Moderator Guidelines and Contributor Rules]

Hi guys. I have recently submitted a number of changes and new entries for pinball games. For older games, there are usually no high-res images available and sometimes no decent artwork can be found at all. This makes it nearly impossible to come up with decent background images (I admit that I don't have the artistic skills required for creating nice high-quality artwork from scratch myself; just doing some "Gimp-ing" here and there to clean up stuff or create clear logos from existing art). So basically as background images I uploaded images of pinball machines, generic ones, not visibly relating to any game in particular (like close-ups of ramps or bumpers - see example attached) so as to remain in line with the genre of the game. I see that some moderators accept them and others not (seems to be 50/50 right now). In the moderator guidelines, point 11 states that "fanart must be directly related to the game".

As I am also moderating myself, I would like to have your point of view on this. Are such images uploaded as "fanart" acceptable - in the absence of art directly relating to the game itself - or not?

By the way, I would also suggest to add the genre "Pinball". Pinball games cannot be easily categorised with the values currently available.

[Open - Moderation problems - Issues #86, #46, #179, #210, #105, #168, #266, #274, #300]

Hi guys. New moderator here and first time contributing on the forum. A quick message to confirm that I encounter the same issue with a game entry being "stuck" in my moderation queue. Actually from what I see it seems to happen when a person submitted a new game entry without indicating the game title. I am trying to reject it but then I get the "internal server error message". I get this systematically now with 2 entries that I keep skipping for 24 hours. (see attached screen-shots).

I hope you will be able to fix this soon.