New Queue Voting Feature To Help Speed Up Approval Process
A new feature has been added to Lospec that allows all users to vote on submissions in a queue. You can vote for or against a piece being published. This will help good submissions be published faster, and will help moderators make decisions by floating the easiest ones to the top. The queues will now be sorted by votes first, and submission time second.
Keep in mind we approve pieces not based on quality, but whether the submissions follow all the rules for that type of content - so this is how you should vote too. A bad submission with a high vote count will not be immediately approved, and a good submission with a negative score will not be immediately rejected.
In the future this may be improved to be split between each rule, or may trigger automatic approval, but we'll need adequate participation in the voting process before we can consider that.
The voting system is theoretically easy to add to any piece of content or any other place on the site, so if you have some ideas for where else we could use this, let us know!
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The Final Nail In X's Coffin - Rise of the Bluesky
I'm sure by now you've heard of the downfall of twitter, one of the already most controversial websites. In April 2022, the 2nd generation Apartheid billionaire Elmo Musk bought the website for $44 billion dollars.
Since then, Leon has made a series of changes to the site, which made it clear his mission was never to improve the website, but instead mold it into his own personal playground, that reflected his world views and prioritized protecting "free speech" (hate speech) and
With each change he made, the site got more toxic as more good people left, and now it has become far more toxic than it ever was before (and it already had a reputation for being a horrible place).
Yesterday Twitter announced some changes to their Terms of Service which removed the ability for users to opt out of allowing their content to be used to train twitters AI product, Grock.
In response, Lospec has decided to remove it's social media links to these platforms. So if you look at the footer of Lospec now, you'll see Bluesky and Mastodon have replaced the Twitter and Reddit links. We've also changed the hashtag links on palette pages to prioritize other social media websites - and will remove X in a few months when the last few stragglers finally admit that it's dead.
In the meantime, we highly reccomend moving your social media presense to Bluesky - which has had a huge bump in users over the past day due to these changes - or Mastodon another great well-established option.
For similar reasons (forced AI training, shutting down of APIs, toxic user behavior) we've also shut down the /r/Lospec feed on Reddit, disassociated from /r/PixelArt and will no longer cater to that website.
If you log into Lospec via Twitter or Reddit, I highly reccomend you switch to using another platform such as Discord or Reddit, just to be safe.
Hopefully this is not the end of good social media, but rather the beginning.
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