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Pictured Nudity: Please do not upload items that contain visible nudity - that is, no pics of exposed female nipples, butt cracks, or genitals of either gender.
 
Pictured Nudity: Please do not upload items that contain visible nudity - that is, no pics of exposed female nipples, butt cracks, or genitals of either gender.
  
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Skintones: Skintones must be "barbie" below the waist - that is, no pubic hair or genitals whatsoever, for either gender. Nipples on females are fine on skintones - just make sure not to show them in your pic.
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    Skintones: Skintones must be "barbie" below the waist - that is, no pubic hair or genitals whatsoever, for either gender.  
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    Nipples on females are fine on skintones - just make sure not to show them in your pic.
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Clothing: Nude or extremely revealing clothing is considered adult as well.
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    Clothing: Nude or extremely revealing clothing is considered adult as well.
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    Art: Classical art pics that include nudity of the above types is not allowed either.
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Art: Classical art pics that include nudity of the above types is not allowed either.
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    Other Adult Content: In addition, items with swear words, illegal drugs, or excessive blood and gore are a bit much for a PG-13 site too.
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Other Adult Content: In addition, items with swear words, illegal drugs, or excessive blood and gore are a bit much for a PG-13 site too.
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|Your upload required changes to comply with the Creator Guidelines. It is now being rejected because those changes were not made within the allotted 72 hour period, or because you have made changes in that time frame, but you have not made -all- the requested changes. Please review the reasons given in the previous Changes Required PM, and make the required changes before resubmitting your work.
 
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! style="text-align:left" | Game Mod: Conflicts?
 
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|Game Mods can conflict with one another and it is best to give users an understanding of what your mod might conflict with before downloading. The best way to do this is to specifically state what was edited (such as the name of the particular XML you edited, etc.), and what mods or types of mods it is likely to conflict with.
 
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! style="text-align:left" | Game Mod: Multiple versions required
 
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|With the ease of XML tuning, it is very easy for people to modify their own games to tweak or change values to suit themselves, even if they're not very technically inclined.
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Thus, simple tweaks that just change one value are no longer accepted here.
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Whenever possible, we ask that creators make multiple versions in different flavors. For example, don't just double a value, but offer it triple, and quadruple, as well as half, a third, and a quarter. Obviously, exact values will vary depending on your mod, and you don't want to make a mod which is too cheaty or exploity that would make the game too easy.
 
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! style="text-align:left" | Game Mod: Too cheaty
 
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|We do not accept for upload "cheat" type mods. This includes any mods that decrease times to do something (like gain relationships or skills or upgrade items) to something ridiculously small, make difficult to obtain items buyable for free or a very low price, or increase the ease of gaining money by a large amount.
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These types of mods could easily be done by anyone quite easily in about 5 minutes using the Mod Generator program or the XML Tuning tutorial if they wished something so much like a cheat in their game. Instead, we only wish to host mods that represent an interesting change to the game mechanics and aren't just cheats in disguise.
 
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|Please do not link directly to mesh files or other required content. Instead, link to the site and leave detailed instructions - such as the filename and page or section the item is in - so people can easily find it.
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Linking directly to the file is called hotlinking, and is considered bad form as it takes bandwidth from the owner of the page without downloaders actually seeing their website.
 
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|Please take pictures of your neighborhood in grass, dirt, desert, and concrete. Include these in the download. Terrains also need a main image. They should be named as follows to work correctly in game:
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! style="text-align:left" | Included Content/Meshes Not Redistributable - TS2/TS3 **
 
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|Some of the content you have included in your upload is not allowed to be distributed. Creators can state how and when their creations may be distributed (if ever) to others, and you must comply with their wishes - to respect their creation and their copyright, and for your own artistic karma. Creators of almost all pay content and sometimes free content may not allow redistribution of their content. Please make sure you check with the creators of any content you include with your uploads and carefully review their policies on sharing to make sure that they allow their content to be distributed with uploads.
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If the item is essential to your upload but may not be redistributed, you can remove the item from your upload and link to it instead, so downloaders may choose to go there and download it separately.
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For TS2: To remove content from a sims2pack, you use Clean Installer to open the sims2pack file you want to "clean." Uncheck the items you want to remove from the file, and then save it with a -new- filename (do not overwrite the original as there is a bug with that). Link to the items that you removed and make sure you note prominently that they are essential but not included. If downloaders go and get the removed file(s) and also install your sims2pack, your creation will show up with that removed content when they go to use your creation in the game.
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For TS3: You can use CUSTARD to check a sims3pack to see what custom content has been included and remove content that you do not want/can't include. Store content CANNOT be included, but MUST BE linked/credited. If you would like to upload a lot with no Custom Content see this wiki page: MTS2:Creator_Guidelines/Sims_3_Lots_and_Houses#Packaging_Lots_with_no_custom_contentwiki
 
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Revision as of 20:50, 11 August 2011

A handy little page under construction by moderators. This will help in understanding what moderators are looking for, what changes required (CR) messages you might get, and what the reasoning behind rejections are.

Do NOT edit if you are not a staff member. Thank you :D

Contents


Introduction

Nearly everyone has had an upload marked with "changes required" or has been rejected at one point or another. Most of the time, these reasons are due to people not being careful with information in their posts. However, uploaders are often surprised when they get, what appears to be, an automated message tagged onto their submitted upload. This page is made specifically to tell you all of the things we look for while moderating. Think of it like the creator guidelines, but from the moderators viewpoint. Now that you can see all of these reasons for rejecting, we hope that there will be a lot less confusion on your end when we say "You need more info in your post" or "This needs a bit more work."

Before Reading this Article

This article is created as a complimentary part to the "Creator Guidelines." The information in here will be next to useless if you have not read the rules first. So, to fully understand what these boxes really mean, make sure you read the Creator Guidelines for the section you plan on uploading to.


General Reasons

This section contains information that apply to any upload in any area of the moderation queue.

General

The following drop boxes have information that apply to any upload in any section.

Screenshots

The following drop boxes are about pictures that apply to any upload in any section.

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