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|While we appreciate and understand the time and effort you have taken on your submission, it's just a little bit off in some ways... you've got a great base and a really good start going, but there's certain details that need a little more tweaking before it's quite ready. Please don't take this as any kind of discouragement - in fact, it's meant as exactly the opposite...
 
|While we appreciate and understand the time and effort you have taken on your submission, it's just a little bit off in some ways... you've got a great base and a really good start going, but there's certain details that need a little more tweaking before it's quite ready. Please don't take this as any kind of discouragement - in fact, it's meant as exactly the opposite...
  
We strongly encourage you to make use of our Creator Feedback forum (http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=473) to get tips and help in polishing up your creation up a little more, as you have a very nice start going... just needs a little more work and it will likely be able to be accepted. If you need further help, make sure to check the tutorials in our Create (http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=MTS2:Create) section, and you can ask specific questions in the appropriate sub-forum if there's something you're stuck on.
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We strongly encourage you to make use of our [http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=473 Creator Feedback forum] to get tips and help in polishing up your creation up a little more, as you have a very nice start going... just needs a little more work and it will likely be able to be accepted. If you need further help, make sure to check the tutorials in our [http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=MTS2:Create Create] section, and you can ask specific questions in the appropriate sub-forum if there's something you're stuck on.
 
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|While we appreciate the effort and work put into your creation, unfortunately it has not been approved at this time. MTS prides itself on high-quality, unique items, and has some of the best in the entire community and we uphold that threshold in all of our moderated items.
 
|While we appreciate the effort and work put into your creation, unfortunately it has not been approved at this time. MTS prides itself on high-quality, unique items, and has some of the best in the entire community and we uphold that threshold in all of our moderated items.
  
We advise you to take the time to read the various tutorials we have here on the site, or to post your creation in the Creator Feedback forum (http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=473) so that others can help you improve it. Please also read the Creator Guidelines for more information about submitting items to MTS.
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We advise you to take the time to read the various tutorials we have here on the site, or to post your creation in the [http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=473 Creator Feedback forum] so that others can help you improve it. Please also read the Creator Guidelines for more information about submitting items to MTS.
 
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|Your upload either requires pay content or shows it in the screenshots. Uploads that require pay content will no longer be accepted. If the pay content is not required, it must be removed from your screenshots. Please note that all Featured Artist content at TSR (The Sims Resource) is considered pay because this content's pay/free status changes frequently. More details available here: Creator Guidelines/Regarding Pictured or Required Pay Content (http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=MTS2:Creator_Guidelines/Regarding_Pictured_or_Required_Pay_Content)
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|Your upload either requires pay content or shows it in the screenshots. Uploads that require pay content will no longer be accepted. If the pay content is not required, it must be removed from your screenshots. Please note that all Featured Artist content at TSR (The Sims Resource) is considered pay because this content's pay/free status changes frequently. More details available here: Creator Guidelines/Regarding Pictured or Required [http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=MTS2:Creator_Guidelines/Regarding_Pictured_or_Required_Pay_Content]
  
 
Even if you got a pay item for free from a site that distributes pay items for free, it's still a pay item; that includes sites which do retextures or small fixes of pay items.
 
Even if you got a pay item for free from a site that distributes pay items for free, it's still a pay item; that includes sites which do retextures or small fixes of pay items.
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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!
 
|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.
 
If the creator is still active in the Sims community and does not give permission or does not reply, your upload cannot be accepted.
  
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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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 [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=426734 "Remixes of Abandoned Works"]for further information.
  
 
If there is a policy posted which allows your usage, please point it out. Sometimes policies can be hard for us to find. :)
 
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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|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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|Thank you for your submission. There are a number of spelling and/or grammar errors in your text that need to be corrected. (http://dictionary.reference.com/ Dictionary.com) is a free on line dictionary and [http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/ Spellchecker.net] 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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Revision as of 00:06, 16 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

NOTE: ** denotes links need to be properly formatted still.

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.



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

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