Download requirements - another reminder
Posted on 23rd April 2008, 19:55 by IBBoard
As mentioned several times already this year, Skins@HWT has a set of submission guidelines that all submitters agree to when they submit their work. While these guidelines do add a small amount of extra work, the trade-off is tiny in comparison to the help it provides trying to track down the author to make corrections or gain permission for re-use.
Unfortunately these guidelines don't seem to be being followed by some recent submitters. Read on for more detail about the problem and the tiny amount of effort required to avoid it.
All submissions must comply with our submission guidelines to be approved. If they do not then they are left in the pending queue with a note until the issue is resolved. If the author has provided an email address then we will contact them about the problem, however if the download does not contain an email address there is nothing we can do to notify people that their download has not been approved.
It is a shame not to host people's work over a small detail, but it seems that some authors do not even care about their work enough to check back and find out whether it was approved or why it wasn't approved if it is still pending.
If authors put in the extra minute's effort to include the required items from the submission guidelines (download title, description, author name and contact email address in a readme) then files can be quickly approved. If authors are not willing to put in that extra effort then their downloads will remain in the pending queue until either they have been left pending too long or the issues are resolved.
