Those Bloody Banners Again!

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:59 pm

I like all the rejected ones. Oh the humanity.

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:34 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
deathtoyouall wrote:then i suppose it was terribly offensive, i thought it was a original joke, dedicated not only to the hard work of amv creators everywhere, but to the homeland of anime, since it was written in a haiku style. maybe im an optimist with too much experience, or as most people would say, a pessimist.
I don't recall your banner but if it was a negative message (even if funny) it can't be accepted.

Which makes me feel negative.

Of course.

When one of my banners got rejected for being too negative awhile back, I was very tempted to submit a banner with the same image, but which said "message removed for being too negative" then another image (being an animated gif) that said "no, I'm not bitter".

But then I realized that it would almost certainly get rejected. So I didn't even make it.

Every one I make that gets accepted is "unworthy" anyway. *sigh*

When you lose a contest-type-thing, it makes you want to do one of two things:
try harder and win the next time
or
give up and pretend you don't care

I'm feeling like the latter. 2 rejected, 6 accepted but "unworthy". I'm sure some have had more than that fail, though. Wonder what the record is? Maybe you shouldn't tell me, it'd just make me depressed.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:37 pm

Don't feel bad, only 14% of the banners that have been voted on were actually voted worthy.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:29 am

i cant think of a way to phrase it so that it doesnt sound sarcastic, rude or insulting in anyway, it wasnt intended to be, but how the fact that only 14% were worthy encourage anyone to try again or offer any softening of the fact that you were rejected? the more i consider it, the more i'd like to hear a real answer, it might clear up how some are so joyous all the time.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:54 am

Because of the sense of acheivement if you do get voted worthy?

People on the site are picky but if you have a really good banner that shines out about the rest then you're going to get voted worthy. You just have to go that extra distance I guess.

Oh and animated banners are popular

godix · Post by **godix** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:18 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Oh and animated banners are popular

and are also a good way to get an automatic unworthy vote from some people who hate animated banners.

Rosie-chan · Post by **Rosie-chan** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:53 pm

I guess this is as good a place to post a banner-related question as any...I never got an e-mail about *my* recently rejected banner, and I don't believe it went into any sort of spam filter because I specificly remember getting amvorg@hotmail.com whitelisted by the guy who manages SpamAssasin where I have my main e-mail account. Unless it got caught in another spam filter down the line...

I'm not bitter about being rejected but I'd still like to know why...if it was rejected for the reason I think it was rejected, I can quickly fix the problem and re-submit.

(The <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/_media/ ... ">rejected banner</a> in question, if anyone cares. My second attempt...the first is an animated banner that I can't seem to get down to being under 20k without it looking terrible. I confess that this was made under the influence of sheer boredom.)

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:02 pm

Emails now come from admin@animemusicvideos.org - so maybe that's the problem?

Rosie-chan · Post by **Rosie-chan** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:33 pm

AD, if it's within your power, can you send my rejection e-mail again? I tweaked the e-mail address in my profile; I suspect the one I had there previously (my old college e-mail, which is supposed to forward to my regular account) might have had screwy things happening server-side.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:49 pm

I dont know if I can :/

Tell you what, submit the banner again or PM me a link to it and I'll comment on why it might have been rejected.