Thumbnails - Content Quality Assurance

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    Thumbnails
    Thumbnails are the most important factor to engaging users. A good high quality thumbnail can yield more visitors to your content. 
    
    - Use High Definition 16:9 Images (Crop Larger) 
    - Use the most visually appealing but also descriptive image possible. 
    
    
    How we will help
    Thumbnail sizes have changed over the years and therefore many thumbnails are low quality. Our staff will start to update old, blurry, distorted, and low quality thumbnails. This includes updating thumbnails for new releases if necessary.
    
    
    
    As they say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
    
    The GameMaps Team
    
    
    
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  • HAPPY NEW YEAR AND ALL THE BEST IN 2022 EVERYONE <3 
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  • Btw I wonder if this is also the one generating a new thumbnail preview. On my mod "Merciless Survivor Bots", suddenly it got a new thumbnail preview (a much cooler one than the one i used as I only used a screenshot of my play that has kind of low quality). I just wanted to thank for the cool thumbnail design. Keep the good work.
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  • Is the new thumbnail created by bot or human
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  • @7empest: maybe the staff manually make the designs, as every thumbnail preview has different design to each other.
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  • I guess this explains what happened, and why, to my recent Dead Echo 2 item.
    i would've preferred being contacted about it first, but not really a big deal.
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  • 2022 and people still don't read, once again showing the problems with our community lol.
    "Our staff will start to update old, blurry, distorted, and low quality thumbnails.
    This includes updating thumbnails for new releases if necessary."
    out of all of that I'd only agree my old thumbnail was just simply "old" as it still showed the in-game custom content just fine as it was.
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  • Good point Trunten!  I'm a little worried about this, as I have 50 thumbnails though all the same one for each (can you imagine having to come up with 50 different ones?)  I think management means well with this, but I'd rather have them fix their censorship algorithms.  So many of my mods have censored descriptions even though NONE of them should be.  They are script mods, not models of naked ladies, etc.  I'm not talking dirty in my descriptions- why would I?
    
    Come to think of it, I wish as I've said many times before, that there simply wasn't any censorship at all.  I doubt this site has very many under 18 users, but even if they do they probably know more "bad words" than the adults anyway!  They probably learned to swear on the school bus just like I did when I was still in ELEMENTARY school (K-6 at the time.)  Restrictions in the Mature section are obviously warranted, but none of my mods are Mature and neither are any of the screenshots I use.
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  • Well, don't misunderstand me, I was fine with it.
    My point was it'd have been nice to be contacted about it first out of respect.
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  • Well Trunten if you are fine with it, that's great.  I have my reservations myself as I said before, and like you I think people should have been asked if they wanted their thumbnails changed.
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  • Alfred, I meant I'm fine with a concern for having better quality thumbnails.
    But yea, we probably should've been asked about it first, given an option.
    However, I understand that'd be difficult with so many users.
    Perhaps an option we could toggle somewhere, and then staff could pick up on it somehow, and then do their "quality" thing.
    If it's automated that's fine... given if we consent to it via a setting and option in our control panel somewhere.
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