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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:
 
|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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|When your submission contains part of a texture, alpha, or mesh (3D model) that someone else created, you must get their permission before uploading. Please contact the original creator and ask permission to use their work. If they say yes, or if you have already obtained permission, you need to specifically mention that you have permission in your post - we're not mind readers!
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If the creator is still active in the Sims community and does not give permission or does not reply, your upload cannot be accepted.
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However, if the creator has been inactive for at least 6 months and has no posted policy which forbids the type of edit you've done, your upload may be accepted as long as you provide proper credit. Please see our policy on this matter, here under "Remixes of Abandoned Works" (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=426734)for further information.
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If there is a policy posted which allows your usage, please point it out. Sometimes policies can be hard for us to find. :)
 
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If you are uploading a lot that you've built with the BaseGameStarter/AnyGameStarter, please state that in the text of your upload, otherwise any lot that you have built will require all the Expansion Packs that you have installed and any Stuff Packs that you used items from.
 
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|Some of your files are incorrectly named and they will not work properly. Please make sure that all image files are spelled correctly and names are consistant. Do not capitalize the first letter in the terrain type. 'Hoodname_lush.png' is correct while 'Hoodname_Lush' is not.
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|Uploads which are just a new colour combination for an EA item will not be approved. These are very easy to do, and take less than a few minutes - if a downloader wants an item in a certain colour, they can do it themselves.
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|The upload you have submitted has been created by someone else. If they wanted to upload it here they'd be welcome to, but it's not up to you or anyone else to upload it for them.
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|This upload appears to have taken little time or effort. Things like adding text to an existing shirt, or turning a real photo into a sim wall hanging, can be done quite easily by most players.
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If this is one of your first creations, please don't take offense. Learning to create custom content can be difficult, and it's good to practice on simple projects. However, we want MTS to offer high-quality unique downloads - things that aren't easy to duplicate. Please put more effort into future submissions. :)
 
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|An equivalent item is already available on MTS. Please search the site before uploading things that are likely to already exist. We do not host duplicates of the exact same (or extremely similar) items since there's really no point in having multiple versions of the same thing.
 
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|Thank you for your submission. There are a number of spelling and/or grammar errors in your text that need to be corrected. Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/) is a free on line dictionary and Spellchecker.net (http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/) will check both grammar and spelling. We understand if you do not have perfect spelling and grammar all the time, and we are also understanding of non-native English speakers, but please use the above resources to help downloaders understand what you are trying to say.
 
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|This is a duplicate of an upload that has already been through our moderation queue or that is still waiting in our moderation queue. If you can't remember if you've already submitted something, please go to User Tools, then User Control Panel. There is a box labeled "New Subscribed Threads" and it will show you all the threads you are currently subscribed to. Any thread currently in the queue will say "Thread is currently in the moderation queue." If that thread has been approved or rejected, the message will go away.
 
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|Please combine your items into a set. When uploading similar items at the same time, they should be posted together in one thread instead of separately in many threads.
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One of your threads will be marked "Changes Required" and can be found in your list of subscribed threads (http://www.modthesims.info/subscription.php?). The rest will be rejected. Please add any items rejected for this reason to the thread(s) marked changes required.
 
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|You Are Not A Newspaper. Typing Like This OR LIKE THIS Really Doesn't Achieve Anything And Makes Our Heads Hurt From Reading What You Are Trying To Say Which Ends Up Getting Lost Because The Brain Is Focusing Too Much On The Excess Capitals So It Really Doesn't Matter WHAT You Say We Wont Read It And Nor Will Anybody Else And If You Got This Far Then You Must Be Using Text To Speech Or Quantum Bunnies Or Something Like That Because I Really Don't Know How You Could Without Your Brain Melting... Well, Or You Are 12. Please Save A Quantum Bunny And Stop Typing Like This And Stop Being 12. Thank You.
 
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|Please do not upload both a zip and a rar of the same thing. It doesn't matter which you keep, but please remove the other. Rars are the preferred archives because they compress better, but it is up to you as to which to keep.
 
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Revision as of 21:05, 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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