Puterboy1's Sounds

[Puterboy1]

dam these posts worded a little harsh

Alright, so Puterboy: It's clear your heart's in the right place. You want to submit a lot of content and we appreciate your motivation and drive - however, there's something you're kind of missing here: Try seeing things from the other side, the end user, or the person that's downloading the sound for enjoyment (or whatever the reason)

You cannot simply put every sound file from a game into a folder and submit them. Just like a sprite sheet, the end user really appreciates it when things are ordered nicely for easier consumption.
Making the zip file really organized for submission is not only helpful to the end user, but also the chances of your submission getting accepted rise tenfold!!


Now, understand that someone has to manually open up your directory and listen to each file. The posts you're seeing are from exasperated content reviewers who have, time and time again, listened to your submissions, rejected them for not being organized enough and have become agitated with giving you suggestions on how to improve and you're (clearly) ignoring them. You've ignored them so many times that as a result, your submission privileges have been revoked. But no worries - it's actually really easy to fix that and here's how!

The key here is: Organization!!

When you wash clothes and put them away, do you just throw shirts, socks, and underpants into the same drawer and pile them on top of each other without folding them?! No!!!
...AFTER you fold all your clothes, you put the socks together, the underpants together, and the shirts together in three piles before putting them into a dresser drawer. You then do your best to fit socks and underpants in one drawer, and if you have a lot of shirts, you'll store them in another drawer. You can even organize your dresser drawer further by separating long socks and ankle socks, or boxers separate from briefs, and colored tees from white tees.
This same type of organization is encouraged with site submissions!

For example, it sounds like your submissions are mostly like this:

Code:

/Voices/
/SFX/

Good to see you're splitting it at least two things, but this is still frustrating for the end user. This is not good enough.

What if you organized it further?

Code:

/Voices/
   /Sam/
   /Jackson/
   /Margaret/
   /Pedestrian/
/Sounds/
   /Pickup Truck/
   /Fire Truck/
   /Train/
   /Miscellaneous/

Wow! This makes it easy for the user to look through the file and find what they're looking for!

So, to review:
Organized submission = Happy reviewer = Submission accepted = Happy users!!

But I work so hard! Why don't you guys organize it?

Here's an easy answer:

Imagine if the staff had to do this for every submission. Every single one. All 1,329. They'd go insane.
This is why organizing it before submitting it is appreciated.

All right. I suppose I’ll stick to Lego games since thier sounds seem to be easily acceptable.

That's...not how it works? Those still have to be organized. As mentioned above, if they're organized, they'll be accepted! If they're just 2 folders, that's not enough organization.

Apologies if this is kind long, but I tried to explain it as exhaustively as I could. If you're still confused, we'll be more than happy to further explain what we're looking for with you in hopes that you can get submitter status back!

Don’t you think I try to be organized? Especially in what had been my recent submissions? If any of my remaining submissions are approved until I reach a thousand, it probably won’t matter anymore since I aim to become a filmmaker. But I’ll give you the download links soon enough.

Update: And here they are now in the top post!