Back to Discussions
Help

The review is too long & suggestion

OOtakosan
Translated to English·

Currently, I have a work that has been under review for a month and might disappear, so I urgently need this resolved. (Having waited this long, I’d really appreciate it if it’s not rejected.) That aside, I currently have 17 works awaiting review. Most of them are girls wearing fantasy swords, sci-fi guns, or Western armor (not bikini armor), just posing normally—not causing harm or showing blood—but they still get flagged. I don’t intend to complain about the review standards, but so many of these feel like “do we really need to review this?” that it makes me wonder if the volume of reviewable content is being intentionally increased to boost management workload. So, here’s a suggestion: why not add a “Cancel Submission” feature? When a work that might be flagged for review is uploaded, a screen could pop up saying, “This work is subject to review. Would you like to submit it anyway? Yes/No.” Selecting Yes would proceed as usual, while No would cancel the submission. Honestly, I’d rather fix the parts likely to trigger a review and resubmit than wait a month for approval. If users know their work will be reviewed, some might hesitate to submit, which could reduce the number of submissions requiring review and lighten the management’s workload to some extent. What do you think?

4

18 replies

�
𖤓Ch⩜osfl⩜me🐦‍🔥·

Such a feature would indeed be useful, but it sort of already exists. We can delete works from review; there is just a bug where those works still need to be reviewed. I mentioned this here a while ago.
🖖

O
OtakosanOP·

I see. I never noticed because I had never deleted anything before. So there's a bug where you can delete something, but it still remains under review. In that case, the review will never end.

👍1
こ
こばと🕊️_ダヴ(DOVE)·

I believe this is a deliberate response measure. If you leave works that are difficult and troublesome to review alone, a month will pass and they will naturally disappear, so you can pretend they never existed. This is a sneaky tactic.

M
mini burger·

Sometimes the timing of a post is more important than the content itself, so I'm in favor of cancellation.

O
OtakosanOP·

The artwork that was under review has been gone from the gallery for over a month now. I believe it is still logged, so I hope you will take some action.

た
たぬー·

Oh, so the review system is still working. I was a bit surprised because it hadn't been triggered lately, probably due to fewer posts. Sometimes the image is fine but the text gets flagged, so I've been running it through Google Translate recently to check if it's being misinterpreted.

日
日本及大和號戰艦的应援会™·

This is the most critical reason: knowing in advance whether something will be flagged for review effectively allows users to reverse-engineer how to bypass the automated system and get content published immediately without manual checks. Malicious users determined to upload extreme or illegal images can exploit this by repeatedly submitting slightly modified content, canceling if flagged, and refining their approach—turning the system into a test tool for finding filter loopholes. As a result, the risk of genuinely dangerous content slipping through review and being published skyrockets. If many users repeatedly engage in this cycle—posting, getting flagged, canceling, tweaking, and resubmitting—the platform’s image analysis system faces enormous strain. The already overwhelmed review servers would waste resources on users' "pre-tests," potentially slowing down the entire site, inflating maintenance costs, and threatening the service's viability.

Conclusion
Adding that feature would allow malicious actors to exploit it as a test tool for "how to get extreme images through," making it absolutely unviable for security reasons. Repeatedly uploading and canceling modified content to find filter gaps could turn the platform into a lawless zone. On top of that, constant pre-test uploads could overload servers, potentially crashing the site. I completely understand the sentiment, but realistically, it’s not a viable solution. Sorry for the long message.

👍1
M
mini burger·

As a countermeasure, maybe they could count cancellations toward the number of posts?

👍1
日
日本及大和號戰艦的应援会™·
@mini burger

That's probably it.

O
OtakosanOP·

Two days passed with no response. I'm being completely ignored. It looks like what Kobato-san said might be right. If the artwork ends up completely gone like this, I'll hold someone responsible. There's no way I'll just accept this quietly.

こ
こばと🕊️_ダヴ(DOVE)·

Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do. Not just on this site but on others as well, the decision-making power lies entirely with the site. The only thing I can think of is to download it and keep a copy for yourself 😞🌀

O
OtakosanOP·
@こばと🕊️_ダヴ(DOVE)

No, no, we can't just let this slide. Even though I'm the one affected this time (though I'm not sure if it can really be called "harm"), the same thing could happen to others. No matter how much decision-making power the administrators have, they still need to fulfill their basic responsibilities properly.

👍1
こ
こばと🕊️_ダヴ(DOVE)·
@Otakosan

That's exactly right. You're speaking the truth. But what can we do? Even this comment might get deleted. In fact, on platforms like SeaArt, there are moderations in place, and comments that are unfavorable to SeaArt are arbitrarily rewritten. On this site, we can comment freely, but we never know when similar moderation might be introduced.

日
日本及大和號戰艦的应援会™·

I agree that the site ultimately holds decision-making power under the terms of service. However, it might be a bit premature to give up and say "there's nothing we can do."

Since the site's service exists because of its users, if many people become dissatisfied and migrate to alternative platforms, the site would have no choice but to reconsider its policies. Our acts of "switching to a better alternative service" or "submitting requests to the management" are themselves valid ways to push back against the site.

Moreover, for AI-generated images, you can ultimately set up a local environment on your own PC, allowing you to generate freely without fear of site policies or sudden specification changes. Besides "just downloading and enduring it," I believe there are still other solutions and options available.

こ
こばと🕊️_ダヴ(DOVE)·

You're right. Speaking up is important. Leaving aside mere complainers, constructive opinions are definitely worth commenting on. However, ultimately, it's up to the site side, and there may well be many cases where our opinions are not reflected.

ス
スミカ·

I also have several works submitted on September 22 that are still pending review, so I understand how Otakosan feels.

A cancel submission feature might be useful if available, but it could also come with various issues. From my perspective, I believe the management probably didn't anticipate reviews taking over 30 days. I understand they're busy and need time to handle things, so I don't intend to rush the review process. However, since the generation history only displays up to 30 days, I think it's a problem that users have no way of knowing whether their submission was rejected or is still pending after that period. While it's currently possible to display pending works on your profile, that also only shows up to 30 days. I think it would be good if pending reviews could be placed in a separate category, allowing users to see their status even after 30 days.

O
OtakosanOP·

Even after four days, still no word at all. And today, another two of the images that were under review a month ago disappear... so sad..

渡
渡邉航·

Understood.

Leave a reply

Join the community to share your thoughts and ideas.

Sign in to join the discussion