Tutorials Currently Being Declined Due to Repetition!

about the email thing...i reckon a cool idea would be when people submit tutorials...that they have to put in their email...and then u could have a button that u click when u decline their tutorials and it sends an automated email to them telling that their tut was declined.
is that unrealistic or not? cos i dont know

This is already slated for development.

Faken

I submitted a tutorial by not being logged in, does it matter if you logged in or not ... or if you logged in you can see the waiting list or something. (My tutorial has not been accepted yet, where you check your tutorial by the source url, it has a Big Red X ... no clue why it was declined .. was a Gimp Tutorial that no one has made yet.)

You do not have to login (Or even be a member) to submit tutorials. The red X means you site is inactive because you don't have any accepted tutorials in the syste,. See the FAQ/Help Section for details.

Faken

I submitted a tutorial by not being logged in, does it matter if you logged in or not ... or if you logged in you can see the waiting list or something. (My tutorial has not been accepted yet, where you check your tutorial by the source url, it has a Big Red X ... no clue why it was declined .. was a Gimp Tutorial that no one has made yet.)

You do not have to login (Or even be a member) to submit tutorials. The red X means you site is inactive because you don't have any accepted tutorials in the syste,. See the FAQ/Help Section for details.

Faken

Thank you for explaining it to me

hey well im new to this place well not really but in posting wize yes lol....

i just wanted to say that you guys are doing a good work keeping this site up.... ever sins i found this site ive been on it every day lol.... ok well on topic.... i dont know why you guys complain alot about not getting your tutz accepted.... its clearly stated that if htey arent accepted there muct be a reason..... i might not know them all but still...... and about getting an email if your tut is declined thats a good idea in a way but if that would happen just think instead of having 300 tuts read that day he would only have the time to like do 200 or so for such a wast of time i find... then if that would happen you guys would complain more lol.... the way it is now its going good and falcon your doing an awsome job man keep it up.... and all of you......

lilman

hey faken, i submitted 2 of mine a day ago, its a 8 and 11 minute video tutorial, linked to my own site, im doing lots of different tutorials but i thought an introduction would be most appropriate, i havent seen any thorough intros to adobe photoshop here, do u think mine will be accepted.

PS: i included a avatar in my second one, and for some reason my first one went and my second one did....

hey faken, i submitted 2 of mine a day ago, its a 8 and 11 minute video tutorial, linked to my own site, im doing lots of different tutorials but i thought an introduction would be most appropriate, i havent seen any thorough intros to adobe photoshop here, do u think mine will be accepted.

PS: i included a avatar in my second one, and for some reason my first one went and my second one did....

As stated in FAQ's it takes around 7dys for tutorials to show if approved.

http://www.pixel2lif...?showtopic=1095

If Faken had to go and hunt down every single tutorial submitted to tell each one yes or no it will be accepted or declined he would go insane lol, just make sure your urls are good and you have heaps of bandwidth available for guests to view your video tuts and that they are in a format ALL users can see.

With 300 tutorials submitted a day, that's a lot of emails lol!

That's why you guys can look at your approval queues....

With that much tutorials you guys should be able to aleats have 20 new tutorials per day and be consistent with them. I think you will make your visitors more happy that way.

Seeing 5 or no tutorials a day just isn't up to par. Approving 20 tutorials take ten minutes? I know you admins have 10 minutes of your time. Everyone has 10 minutes. No offense, just some suggestions for a better p2life.

With 300 tutorials submitted a day, that's a lot of emails lol!

That's why you guys can look at your approval queues....

With that much tutorials you guys should be able to aleats have 20 new tutorials per day and be consistent with them. I think you will make your visitors more happy that way.

Seeing 5 or no tutorials a day just isn't up to par. Approving 20 tutorials take ten minutes? I know you admins have 10 minutes of your time. Everyone has 10 minutes. No offense, just some suggestions for a better p2life.

It could take 20 minutes in another perfect world yes, unfortunatly we have to reject literally a 100 or so for every 20 we accept, and we look at every tutorial in the que before accepting to ensure quality

With 300 tutorials submitted a day, that's a lot of emails lol!

That's why you guys can look at your approval queues....

With that much tutorials you guys should be able to aleats have 20 new tutorials per day and be consistent with them. I think you will make your visitors more happy that way.

Seeing 5 or no tutorials a day just isn't up to par. Approving 20 tutorials take ten minutes? I know you admins have 10 minutes of your time. Everyone has 10 minutes. No offense, just some suggestions for a better p2life.

It could take 20 minutes in another perfect world yes, unfortunatly we have to reject literally a 100 or so for every 20 we accept, and we look at every tutorial in the que before accepting to ensure quality

i personally think that you guys must be really bored. I know i couldn't sit there and approve tutorials 120 tutorials just to submit 20, would drive me mad

unlike the majority of "wannabe" tutorial listings that are popping up from every 12 year old in sight, this is what we do... and we do everything we can to do it well. Unfortunatly some take that as a sign to try to rip us off by trying to steal our index or visitors through copying us :/

Approving 20 tutorials take ten minutes? I know you admins have 10 minutes of your time. Everyone has 10 minutes. No offense, just some suggestions for a better p2life.

It takes about an hour or more to find 20 tutorials that are approved. Thanks for assuming you know though. I justnoticed on your site that you have 13dots tutorials listed there. Weird, because I know they never submitted tutorials to your site. You're not adding people's tutorials without permission are you?

Faken

Edited by Faken, 20 December 2005 - 02:00 PM.

I agree with the article, but doesnt your tutorial cms have the expandability to just make it so that when you click decline, it emails the person,
wait scratch that, there is no email submit form on the tutorial form thingie. Ooops never mind, didnt read the top post. sorry*****

Maybe you could add that, I have added 2 quality bryce 5 tutorials and they DID NOT get submitted, they were both unique too.

I dont think that the admins should be so trigger happy with the tutorial declining, after all, (sorry but it has to be said) you admins, all you did was make a site, market it, etc. And people are happy to kind of give their tutorials to you, and you act that way, declining a lot.

I agree though, all them damned [full grunge sig tutorial!!! OMG complete lols teh1211] type tuts are dumb.
Please take these points in mind, after all its the tutorial submitters who generate your advertising income.

Regards

EDIT
[you get probably hundreds of dollars a month on advertising revenue, and you cant spare 1-2 hours a day. jeez]

Edited by extermin8tor, 11 April 2006 - 06:27 AM.

extermin8tor, congrats. you wrote a (probably not even) 2 hr tutorial. it wasnt up to par. the admins (regards), having spent hundreds of hours creating and/or maintaining this site, decided so. its not your preogative to complain about it.

YOU are the one profiting most from getting tutorials here as it generates a huge number of hits. p2l doesnt need substandard tutorials, and p2l's users, sure as heck dont need substandard tutorials.

you get probably hundreds of dollars a month on advertising revenue, and you cant spare 1-2 hours a day. jeez...

all you did was make a site, market it, etc

have you even considered the costs in time and $$$ of maintaining, building and a site of this size are? compared to a lousy tutorial?

And people are happy to kind of give their tutorials to you

yes ond you wouldnt profit at all would you? if you were giving tutorials out of the goodness of your heart, why would you even be commenting on here?



you would be getting hundreds of hits from this site, and in your own words, and you cant spare 1-2 hours a day (making a real tutorial). jeez.

Maybe you could add that, I have added 2 quality bryce 5 tutorials and they DID NOT get submitted, they were both unique too.

Then you probably didn't follow the submission policies and they were declined. Your links were dead, you used a public image host, invalid avatars etc...

I dont think that the admins should be so trigger happy with the tutorial declining, after all, (sorry but it has to be said) you admins, all you did was make a site, market it, etc. And people are happy to kind of give their tutorials to you, and you act that way, declining a lot.

Sorry, but if I accepted everything and anything, no one would take this site seriously. "All I did"???? Excuse me, but I have worked over 40 - 60 hours a WEEK on P2L for 2+ YEARS. All I did? How ignorant can you possibly be? I have made tons of sacrifices and put in THOUSANDS of hours into this site and so have many other folks that have helped make this site what it is. People are happy to submit their sites because they get traffic, PR and exposure from doing so. It's called ROI. If there was no ROI, they wouldn't submit. I thank the GOOD tutorial writers by making sure we uphold some form of standards so that people who work hard on their tutorials get more than people that spend a few minutes.

Please take these points in mind, after all its the tutorial submitters who generate your advertising income.

Wrong, it's my hard work and the hard work of others that make this place worth submitting to and using to search for tutorials that generated the traffic that makes the ad revenue. If we didn't work as hard as we did and continue to do so, there would be no traffic and hence no ad revenue. You seem to be overlooking a major step in the web page process. First comes the hard work, then comes the traffic... no one handed me anything.

[you get probably hundreds of dollars a month on advertising revenue, and you cant spare 1-2 hours a day. jeez]

So? I work fulltime on this site and it costs me more than $600 a month just for servers. Will you work 60 hours a week for free? Do you flame Google or Yahoo because they make money and people are willingly submitting sites to them even though they ban and decline sites daily??

Sorry, but you're completely ignorant on how this place works... I've thanked the many tutorial writers and submitters, affiliates, members, guests and staff for contributing to the success of Pixel2life many times, but it wouldn't have happened without some serious hard work and the continued efforts of myself and the dedicated staff. I won't betray anyone by slacking off on the quality of content and accepting the junk that goes through the queue.

By the way, is this one of your Bryce tutorials? (Still in the queue by the way) http://s10.invisionf...hp?showtopic=11

It WILL in fact be declined because you missed the 20 posts all over the site about not using public image hosting. (Assuming this is yours)

Dan

Sorry to bring an old topic up, but I read the article on fakens blog about writeing a succesful tutorial and I have to say Im astounded
at some of the critiscm given towards pixel2life and its admins. I dont think you really get the point of pixel2life and how hard the admins work to keep it up and running; not for them for YOU, to keep you the community happy.

You guys are acting like immature 8 year olds who dont realise the hard work their parents have to go through to raise them how long they have to work all the hours they put in just to feed you buy you things to make you happy. Just like pixel2life, All of you people who critiscise the admins because their tutorial on how to make scan lines hasnt been accepted or their 'Fantastic unique totally original tutorial' hasnt been accepted its been said so many times, but im going to say it again; ask yourself why your tutorial has been rejected. Ive seen many tutorials writers who write tutorials who certainly do not have the intention to write a tutorial, they want to keep it short and sweet, 'Go into body paint ' I ask myself how do I get into bodypaint? What icon do I press?
but no, you dont explain you ASSUME that everybody knows what to click to get into the cetrain something.

So think to yourself again why your tutorial got rejected? Read it yourself as you were a new born child to the topic would you know how to change into imageready from photoshop? No, so then change it make it easy to understand uselots images related to what you are stating.

Then I come to php tutorials, most php tutorials on the net are not even tutorials they are just giving oiut their source and commenting it, break it down explain what a function or why you are echoing a certain string. Not just commenting.

Most of you guys are probaly just angry because you undescriptive tutorials, which doesnt teach you a thing has just been rejected
which has been proven above by faken. Well I have something to say to you people, if you review your tutorial describe it acuratly and submit it to p2l or other sites like p2l, you are just being arrogant and ignorant, how dare you get angry over something that is your own fault? So as I said before and ill say it again, Review your tutorial and ask yourself would this teach somebody with no knowledge of (example)php what functions are and what is in the code?

Thats really all I got to say.

*marks for complete wipe out of replies and marks for a move to the FAQ*

Thank you, and good night

-edited my post-

thanks donna! (below), ill wait a bit longer XD

Edited by tomefx, 23 April 2006 - 06:11 AM.

hmm my posts were deleted before and my question was answered, i got a pm saying my tut was declined cos you dont accept free image hosting companys, so i uploaded the images to my paid host, and re submitted tthe tutorial. its been around a week and a bit now. can you tell me why it was declined this time? or still waiting, it meets all of the requirements

Your posts were removed as we cleaned the topic, it shows you have 1 in queue please be patient in it coming through.

Hey

im the creator of this tutorial http://www.the--foru...topic.php?t=448
i was wandering if you coul tell me why it isnt accepted?

Hey

im the creator of this tutorial http://www.the--foru...topic.php?t=448
i was wandering if you coul tell me why it isnt accepted?

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Add that message, and the fact that your using a free image host.. and it's a 2 second decision