To help some of you that are confused as to why your tutorials are being declined, this is an active list of tutorial types that are currently being declined on the spot because we already have loads of them in the database, or they are so basic that it's not a tutorial we want. Tutorials on the following subjects will probably be declined unless they are absolutely extraordinary! (Even then it probably won't get through)

Adobe Photoshop or Image Ready:

- Sigs (This includes grunge sigs, tech sig, and any other general sig guides)
- Blending (How to blend images into a background)
- Multi-colored backgrounds
- Grunge Backgrounds
- How to create Shine and Gloss
- Scanlines or patterns
- How to cut out an image from a background
- Text and/or Image reflections
- "Blended" text that is used in many grunge sigs
- Blast Effects
- Twirls, basic portals and other spinning effects
- Animated shine or glints
- Fading text
- Filter effects like turning a lens flare into a swirling background
- Turning a color photo into a black and white image or isolating colors in a photo
- Changing Eye Colors
- Turning a Photo into a sketch or drawing
- Drawing Tentacles
- Scan bars or faded bars
- Animated Rain
- 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.. pixel borders
- Tech style borders
- Dreamy or Angel photo effects
- Installing Brushes


Cinema 4D:

- Spikey Renders
- Generic Abstract Renders


HTML:

- iframes
- Basic guides to tables, images, hyperlinks etc...


PHP:

- Using includes
- Basic email forms
- How to generate user stats like referrer, IP, browser etc...
- Basic hit counters
- PHP Navigation like index.php?page=blah etc...
- Basic tutorials and "introductions" to PHP

SPECIAL NOTE FOR CODING:

We are no longer going to accept tutorials on PHP, ASP, HTML, javascript etc... that are simply code snippets and don't explain what the code actually does. No one learns anything by just copy/pasting code snippets, so please explain what your code does so it's actually a tutorial and not a free script.

This list is updated on a regular basis. Please remember we are looking for unique tutorials... not the same concepts repeated over and over again.

Faken

If a tutorial is declined, do we recieve email notice? I submitted a tutorial a while ago, nothing yet.

No you don't recieve an email, if its not showing within 7days it was declined.

I guess mine was declined then, I kinda just did a snippet of code, I'll rewrite it as a tutorial and re-submit

I bet my tutorials for twodded will get in within a minute!!!!!!

If you already have accepted tutorials in the system, go to your webmaster page and it tells you how many tutorials you have in the approval queue. When Jay is done twodded, he'll fix it so that you see this even if you don't have approved tutorials in the system yet.

You can check the FAQ and Help section for this information and much more HERE.

Faken

Why don't you guys just make it say like at the bottom of every source site, a list of what tutorials haven't been approved yet?

i've submitted several completely original tutorials several times that arent on that list. yet they always get rejected. all the tutorials are very good too. i believe a few of them are video tutorials that are hosted on deviant art, and the link on the forums simply sends you to deviant art. would that be the cause of the rejection?

well this is happening to me a lot i submit the tutorials look on my sourcsite like 1 min later and it says 0 tutorials in que.
Also my tutorial sourcesite doesnt have my PS tutorials anymore. Maybe you deleted them ?

I think you kind of should, it would show that you atleast looked at the tutorial (yes you guys probably do look at them and again you get a lot of tutorials a day, but I find that if you sent an e-mail saying you declined somones tutorial is a sign of respect).

I'm really happy your doing this faken, after the 157th grunge sig tutorial I got a little annoyed.

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

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

Sorry guys... if your tutorials are being declined, then they aren't up to snuff. Tutorials hosted on DA are usually declined because they cut the file off if it uses too much BW.

Faken

We don't delete tutorials once they are accepted unless they are a rip. You should be contacting us via the contact form if there's a problem with your listing and we'll look at it as soon as we can.

Faken

Faken, I think that´s a good policy you´re having, disallowing more tutorials on the same topic over and over again.

Anyways, I´ve submitted (and got accepted) a tutorial here before, and thrice more not so long ago (they are probably still in queue), and I saw you guys mention the "approval queue". Either I am starting to go blind or it´s just because I´m awfully new around here, but where can I find that queue? I don´t remember registering anywhere on P2L before submitting my tutorials so I also wonder how they can be linked to me (and I guess they aren´t).

The queue is what newly submitted tutorials go into before they're approved

i did a few days ago

Good stuff... you should get an answer soon

Faken

Faken, please dont double post :P Anyway, i think this is a good idea. Although i too have different views, i would like some tutorials to be removed from that list above, however... t'is not my decision

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

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.)

This is already slated for development.

Faken

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....

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

http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php?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 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 :/

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

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]

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.



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




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.

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...



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.



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.



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.invisionfree.com/MaxGFX/index.php?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

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--forum.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=448
i was wandering if you coul tell me why it isnt accepted?

"--- If you are a *registered user* : you need to post in this topic to see the message ---"

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

another guy with imageshack got his tutorial submitted here and he had same 2 things (katana for 3ds)

Some slip through and we used to accept them, but that's not the point no one can see your tutorial without registering we don't accept tutorials that are locked up and forcing everyone (including Faken) to register just to be able to see it.

Closing this topic:

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