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Post by
gnomaldo
Does anybody happen to know how someone becomes selected to moderate the forums, and what they are empowered with upon becoming a moderator? For example, is it normal users like me who decide which screenshots submissions to accept or reject?
Thanks!
Gnomaldo
Post by
baradiel
Yes you can be a or But you need some privileges first before being one of those two things.
Wowhead has a guide for volunteers right
here
. It's very hard to be a because from what i've read you need to put a lot of screenshots on the site if you aren't a moderator yet before you can be a screenshot manager.
Post by
Federalagent
When it comes to screen-shots, typically employees approve them. They also have to follow some guidelines with the approval process.
In-game screenshots are preferred over model-viewer-generated ones.
The higher the quality the better!
Be sure to read the
tips & tricks
if you haven't before.
Almost all screen-shots are approved, unless they dont fall under those guidelines or there are too many already submitted.
Post by
perculia
We have two moderators who are approving screenshots currently. I'm periodically checking in on the queue (and making a mental note of unpopular 5.2 items to take my own pictures of), as I check recent comments for possible items I need to ingame 0 (example: The Sky Claw) or do further manual code with.
One huge huge huge point I want to make about screenshots: PLEASE no UI elements. This includes your name. If you want to show off you got a cool mount, put your name in the screenshot comment. We are getting a lot of pictures of mounts with player names, or elite battle pets with their names.
Post by
CalaelenDT
Just for curiousity's sake, whose the other moderator doing screenshot approvals (besides adashiel).
Post by
Nooska
Sas148 has it in his "roles" last I saw.
Post by
CalaelenDT
Sas148 has it in his "roles" last I saw.
Good catch, thanks!
Post by
asakawa
Yes, with ElhonnaDS joining the team relatively recently we're in a really good place for workload on the mod team. Meanwhile Adashiel has continued to be the hardest working volunteer on the staff so we added the ever-conscientious Sas to the Screenshot Manager role to help out.
Post by
Sas148
I must have forgotten to check this forum last night before going to bed. Thanks for clarifying for them asakawa :)
As Perc mentioned, the #1 type of screenshot that gets rejected is anything with UI elements, a map over here, the toolbar down there, a name over the mob, a screenshot of your bag contents and I've lately ran into quite a few screenshots where it's a "Where's Waldo?" situation because someone decided to take an aerial shot of their mount in the Stormwind Trade District with at least 50 other pets/mounts captured in the shot.
Keep it clean, keep it focused and try not to add too many erroneous elements and you'll likely be good to go.
Also, we thank everyone for their efforts in submitting screenshots for the community!
Edit: Also, be sure to check out
adashiel's
profile page for a lot more involved tips on taking/submitting screenshots.(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##
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