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of ever getting new skincent moderators? queue is... unreasonable for two people and the process (wherein users have to submit multiple entries if they were denied on a first pass) is just designed for bottlenecks. it would benefit everyone for there to be a team of people moderating umas. frequently seeing 200+ submissions come in in the time it takes for two people to comb through the last bunch is just... oof.

Less than 20%, IMO. It's been the same two mods for YEARS, and the fact that there are only two was BARELY brought up during the Accent Rules Drama. Folks were too up in arms about nitpicky rules, and drowned out the few folks who tried to bring it up.

The goal of the accent drama was to address up the unclear rules. It was actually brought up in the discord whether or not to ask for a skin queue revamp (automating reprints instead of having to take a week to be approved) and hiring more staff but people decided against it since staff lock threads about hiring/firing staff and it would dilute the message.

Can I be honest? Those involved wasted an opportunity, where you were very visible to the devs hoping to get something that was never going to happen. The queue should have been there in the complaint.

It really should have, because I can't imagine the workload the two mods have to work through every day, and IIRC they aren't paid.

op here and this kills me to think about too. i feel like there are so many users who would happily volunteer to keep skin queue moving, and if the current mods are also unpaid, then what is stopping site admins from hiring more people on? sigh. i know they’ve said they never expected umas to get so popular, but they ought to update the framework accordingly.

the most asinine thing about this is they are bottlenecking themselves on possible revenue, i think a big chunk of the userbase spends and buys gems specifically for skins/accents, since it is like the ultimate endgame on FR to have a perfectly dressed dragon with a banging accent

buyers and artists become really frustrated if they have to wait 2+ weeks for their accent/skin which is AGES in internet time and they will probably in the future not bother with this "site feature"

buyers and artists become really frustrated if they have to wait 2+ weeks for their accent/skin which is AGES in internet time

It really is. I've had people back out of preorders because of the wait time- 2+ weeks is long enough for folks to fall out of love with the dragon they might have planned for the accent. I'm not a popular/rich UMA artist, so I don't have the means to preorder them myself, which puts me in a tough situation of being annoying and bumping my thread, which only lowers interest because there isn't demand.

It really makes it hard to do well in the UMA market.

The issue is, if they add new volunteer skin and accent mods from the community, there is a real risk they might let something borderline through for their friends. Not saying they shouldn't, but there is a reason not to take those eager volunteers from the skin making community.

op again and i do see it from this perspective, where it’s a gamble to take players from the community because skincent artists are an Opinionated bunch to say the least. but yeah it’s really the smallest sliver of an excuse. they can train new volunteers the same way they trained the two moderators who have been doing this for years and ultimately they have the power to remove unwanted content/bad actors from their site, so. idk. it’s already quite subjective what is ‘borderline’ from uma to uma, also.

They're listed as staff rather than volunteers, so it's more likely they're paid. SuburbanSamurai in particular is also a site artist.

Putting volunteers in charge of the skin queue is probably ripe for a)drama and b)legal issues since what they work on becomes part of the site. IANAL though.

It makes sense that a business shouldn't recruit volunteers to complete the same tasks that a paid employee is doing.

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