Notifications of non-accepeted works

They used to notify like that, but people got really, really rude and unkind with the moderators...

The practise of sending out rejection e-mails was stopped because the Admins were receiving a lot of abuse. Some people cannot take rejection, unfortunately.

/me agrees.

/me agrees with GreyTata to be more precise.

Aaagh! GM got there by 7 seconds - you must have a better keyboard

An automated mail does not respond. Doesn't that solve part of the problem?

... maybe T-man and his new testers can invent something like that!

na... fuzzy, not a better keyboard. Hawaiian timing...

I believe that probably only "stupid" people maybe rude with moderators when their works are not accepted. That's also a question of education and mentality.

One can self-question why their works were not accepted but being rude, is stupidity.

May be we - specifically wallpapers authors - may not agree with the guidelines that moderators use to accept or not our works, ( I do not agree ) but the rules are set and we have to stand by them.

However, since automated notifications do not allow responses, the issue of abuse is overcomed.

GreyTata....I'm sure I have examples of the responses to rejection emails.....of a quality that would curdle milk.
I personally am not fazed by idiots venting their spleens in sub-human invective....but others were justifiably upset by the constant abuse.

Since the change in policy, life for the admins is somewhat 'happier'...;_

Ok, I understand your point, but administrators ( or moderators ) do know that they are in a position where everything might be possible.

I am an administrator also in another site/forum, ( sport related ) people do not agree with me (I was insulted once or twice but solved the problem very easily - simply banished the ofenders from thr site ) but I know that as I cannot please do everybody, I am in a fragile position . So, good and common sense are the keywords.For both sides

I still think that even so~, non accepted works should receive an automated notification.

Tell me, what's the difference ( in terms of abuse and insulting )of getting an automated notification or when we go to "My skins" and see that our works waiting for aproval just disapeared ? The agravation for the author is the same.

The difference is that at least, the process of sending a notification is a little bit more polite.

An email. automated or not becomes a tangible target at which to lash out.
This is not about a 'difference of opinion' or simple abuse...it's about bruised egos that refuse to accept a decision made by another person, irrespective of reason or qualification.

Invariably, the less puerile antagonist will post a 'why me?' thread similar to this....usually after his own ego is bruised.

The fact of the matter is that there is a finite 'space' allocation for wall content on what is intended as a skinning site, where walls are an adjunct and not the prime directive.

Not all walls will be accepted. They will be subject to selection. If an author has a query about the reason for a particular work being removed he can always send a polite email, however, with the large number of works submitted it is quite impractical to compose a tome of detailed post mortem on everything rejected.

More and more I, for one, am increasingly impressed with the 'quiet acceptance' of some artists whose work so frequently does not pass muster, yet neither criticizes nor complains, just continues to submit.
Call him the 'quiet achiever', but he is more deserving of detailed explanation and help than those many others whose waking moments are engrossed in spit and moan...