Sooo, I have a post that hasn't been approved for a few days and the last time that happened a post got deleted.

How do we avoid these situations? It wasn't covered in the Q/A.

High quality posts, sources, artist tags.
That's about it, what you can do to make it faster. It is more or less random what gets approved first.

^{(I wish I had a dollar each time I see this question :P)}

dubsthefox said:
High quality posts, sources, artist tags.
That's about it, what you can do to make it faster. It is more or less random what gets approved first.

I think I got all three of those covered, but thanks for responding.

^{(I wish I had a dollar each time I see this question :P)}

It'd be nice if it was covered in the sticky.

What you can do is get the admins and janitors to like you enough to stop deliberately ignoring you.

That was a joke, but to give a serious answer, if a post hasn't been approved after several days, chances are they've already seen the posts in question and are trying to come to a decision what to do about it.

cypress_cat said:
It'd be nice if it was covered in the sticky.

On the New Upload page, you can find a link for you to review the Uploading Guidelines which would serve as a good rule of thumb to follow.

• Good uploads would almost certainly be approved in swift order or in a couple of days.
• Bad uploads would almost certainly be deleted immediately.
• If a post falls into a grey zone due to questionable artistic quality, it will need to be reviewed by multiple approvers to weigh out its artistic strengths and weaknesses.
• If no decision can be made within 30 days, it will be automatically deleted by the auto moderator.

Sooo, I have a post that hasn't been approved for a few days and the last time that happened a post got deleted.

As for your unapproved post, I would assume that you are talking about post #3748444. It will fall under the quality control for edits.
In my opinion, it should be deleted due to it being a low effort edit, the reasons being:

• Simply putting a blue filter over an otherwise fine artwork is non-creative.
• Leftover dotted line from a failed crop appearing on the left side of the artwork.

thegreatwolfgang said:
As for your unapproved post, I would assume that you are talking about . It will fall under the quality control for edits.
In my opinion, it should be deleted due to it being a low effort edit, the reasons being:

Simply putting a blue filter over an otherwise fine artwork is non-creative.
Leftover dotted line from a failed crop appearing on the left side of the artwork.

It's actually even more basic than that.
Edits must be of the same quality as the original, and post #3748444 is like a third of the size of the original (post #3539691).

I wouldn't mind the simple recoloring job, but the cropped stuff on the left is just unacceptable.