2010-12-15, 04:10
hikaricore Wrote:The only issue I have with user moderated logo approval is that (some) people are blind and or stupid. It would only take X number of idiot votes to approve a complete crap logo for a popular show and have it slip right by us. Moderation of logos isn't really that big of a deal in the first place, most of them are approved or denied the same day they're posted. Anyway that's my 2 cents on the subject,
Yeah, I was thinking the opposite. Instead of approving logos, users are allowed to mark logos as crap. So while removing the approval process would allow bad logos in, they wouldn't last long (in theory)--a la Wikipedia. Though, obviously, our userbase is much smaller, so oversight will be much less in our case.
But even if we keep the gateway in place and only moderated logos get through, I still think there's value in marking logos (et al) as borderline. Throws a bone to the "something is better than nothing" crowd, allows people to contribute better logos without having to scour the whole collection looking for suspects, and generally lets a wider userbase refine the collection into something that is as good as possible.