bigboyblaziken said:
I think experiences with any admins/mods on any site can never be consistent since theyre all individual people like us. This sounds really "well, duh", but it can be hard to remember that in some one-sided interactions like removals.

On one hand i had a great experience with a mod, deleting many of my old and bad images in one go like i wanted to. With that we get to the other hand, which is the quality standarts.

I know they have been raised massively with all the stuff we can do today compared to 2 years ago. The problem is just, not everyone has the patience or resources to actually do all those things, and you can still make "bad" images just as back then. But back then, they would often be approved much more easily. Every one of my old images i mentioned were so bad, that i didnt wanna have them on the site anymore. They were terrible, had artifacts etc. And none of them were deleted, only 1-2 images were ever rejected and both for having a different number of toes on each foot. Which is completely understandable. But by todays standarts, none of those images would likely have been approved now.

I started uploading again recently, and one of my imo pretty high quality images got rejected for something along the lines of "has different number of digits on each hand, even if hidden". The hand was partly behind another body part, and there was no way to tell how many digits that hand actually had. And likely noone would have ever cared. Those are the moments i sometimes feel like its just luck who you get to approve your posts, because im 95% sure most other mods would have just approved that image. I wont try to upload it again ofc, even if someone else might approve it. But i dont wanna risk turning the wrath of one mod on me if they see that image again that they rejected.

So far my experience has been mostly positive, but i can only hope rejections like that one dont happen more often in the future, because that can feel very arbitrary and bad. If a finger is straight up missing, no problem, but if its just hidden, noone can know if its actually there or not.

Edit: Actually i can provide the exact reason given for the one deletion:
"Does not meet minimum quality standards (Anatomical anomalies)-finger count mismatch (including obscured thumb)"
Imo, if something is obscured, it really shouldnt count as a mismatch...

I assume you're talking about post 157175? The issue is that the left hand has 3 "main" fingers visible with additional visible thumb, whereas the right hand has 4 "main" fingers visible with a thumb that isn't visible (but has to exist obviously). Therefore it's a finger count mismatch between hands.
You could've just messaged me for the explanation y'know (as I was the remover)
And no, that fourth finger on right hand cannot be a thumb, because you can't physically bend a thumb at that angle, for it to face the same way the "main" fingers do when curled inwards