@Drewthg2002, I'm probably going to use them in blender. I just don't know what for yet!

iii....I am definitly having high hopes one day that all these models will be on garry's mod someday seeing how absolutely amazing they look.

Now I have to wait for them to be approved.

Done, all Rose models have been uploaded

look! a new model!

Time to upload all rose models

@_vissova_ Some just lack the concern for others wellbeing unfortunately.

It's their site, if they want to remove the visibility of pending models because users are too annoying about it they have that right. Frankly some users can be pretty entitled. Staff do their best.

Was gonna say letting people view models on the site before there approved was a good idea, but those are good points. Maybe have it scan the files for viruses before posting? As for people planting the most shocking content known to earth, not sure about that.

@John the Geek: I can think of two super obvious reasons why that would be a terrible idea.

1: Imagine someone uploads the most popular character of the hottest new game, but with a virus in the zip. Imagine they upload it overnight when all of the staff are asleep. Dozens or even hundreds of people download the virus and have their computer infected before anyone notices the problem.

2: Imagine a malicious user uploads utter garbage. Hundreds of zips full of broken models, files stolen from other users, misleading names, shock images disguised as textures. Dozens or hundreds of people could be exposed to that trash before it has a chance to be removed.

We care about the quality of the sprites and models we host here. We don't want to be a wild west dumping ground full of useless garbage that people have to dig through to find value in.

I'll just say this, it gets annoying when someone points out what's pending and/or how many things are pending, but overall I felt it was a lot more convenient to see what others have sent on the main model page rather than not knowing what could be coming

@Peardian This is all a fantastic discussion, but I'm curious why hold submissions at all? No model on this site is perfect. Depending on a users purpose, good enough might just be fine.

You can still make them public and verify them at your convenience, just mark them as "unverified" or some marker so people know they haven't been vetted yet. You could even add a thumbs up/down feature and let the community rate them, still marked as unverified, and then at least your review staff would know where to focus their efforts. A model with a low or inconsistent rating would be a better place to start than a model with a perfect rating. And you wouldn't have to sit on them while you review them. The site's content is already community contribution, so why not let the community help review the submissions too? Downloading may not need to login, but reviewing certainly would to prevent abuse. That sort of thing.

Anyway, just some thoughts, since this seems to have been boiling for a while.

@Peardian Yeah, I pretty much said it's not gonna help, the idea is meant for a reminder for those who aren't the uploader that it will take time before it gets into the site in public.

@DigitalDiamal: Submitters can already see the date when their own submissions were uploaded. The only thing making the dates public would do is encourage people to say "wow it's been 1 month and the model isn't approved yet" even more than they already do.

@Peardian I know this might not help, but is it possible for the queue to have a date where it was uploaded on? Just to show that it will take time before it gets accepted.

@Grounder: No, it was not an isolated incident. It happens for many popular game releases. Sure, maybe it happens less often than before the list was added, but as the rest of my points describe, this is not necessarily a good thing.

@Pearidan: "The list is only helpful if you read it before ripping anything." is what I meant. Surely the majority do, and Luigi was an isolated incident?

@Grounder: I don't understand what you mean. My second point explicitly describes how the feature did not prevent the thing it was designed to prevent.

Also, the rest of my points are to emphasize that the feature is not as beneficial as people perceive it to be. We're not taking away an unambiguously beneficial tool out of spiteful punishment, we are taking away a feature that causes more harm than good.

I understand the comments are an annoyance, but it still really feels to me like everyone is getting punished because of a small handful of bad actors. Additionally, while I can't speak much for your first point, you are essentially describing why the pending model feature was useful in your second.

@Fawfulthegreat64 and @MasterPengo: Yes, the feature was useful to some degree, but consider the following points:

• Not all submissions get approved. If someone rushes to do a shoddy job ripping a popular character from a new game and it discourages people from providing a better submission, then it's a loss for everyone. There may have even been times when you yourself saw a pending model and told yourself "I don't need to worry about this one", only to realize months later that the model never showed up. You would have to wait doubly long to get the model on the site, and with our super-backlogged queue, that could mean many extra months of waiting.
• Having the list hasn't stopped people from submitting duplicate models before. For example, the 3 Luigis in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. The list is only helpful if you read it before ripping anything.
• We are constantly having to deal with comments about the pending submission list, many of which get deleted. Of course, we don't have any statistics on how many times the pending list has dissuaded someone from contributing a model, but I would wager that the number is far lower than the amount of comments we clean up. Punishing commenters is not feasible, because talking about the pending list is not against the rules, in the same way that it's not illegal to heckle food servers for food not being ready fast enough.
• Redundant submissions can still have value. If two people submit the same model, one person may have provided less formats or effects than the other person. Maybe each submission has something the other doesn't have, and in that case, they can be combined to create an even better submission.

Personally, I would much rather see two equally-valid submissions of a model than one faulty submission that holds up the process for everyone else.