Judge not, lest ye be judged

chuchu

Everybody make mistakes, it's ok. Everything was fine, but starting from 2nd half of march it's all went wrong. Now everything just ruined. In this list are unfair decisions that I personally encountered. The most recent and ridiculous.

1 - The waiting

Once I reported an issue to one of templates just for admin to review my appeal on another domain. He answered, reviewed appeal, posted a comment and said that I should just wait for review next time. I was like: "Okay, good guy admin. I'll wait next time, don't wanted to bother you".

But then happened this:
https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/businessinsider.com.pl/template57/issue2/

I calmly waited for the whole month (!) for admin to decline that not valid issue.

Do I really need to explain why it's not valid? People marks not supported content with @unsupported function and you can't see what's going on on that page and it's ok. Type of page in question is "Video" and it will never have an IV. Issues regarding pages with no IV should not be accepted, until there is no reason to not generate IV for them or until it happens to pages with IV.

Accepted without any commentary. That issue is like "Missing site name" on index page.

2 - Identifiable caption

I thought we (competitors and admins) came to a conclusion that identifiable caption is a caption that constantly placed in identifiable container or have the same nested structure relatively to image and can be safely transformed to <figcaption>.

What we see:
https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/gazeta19.ru/template16/issue1/

Found one article where "captions" have some data attribute with word "copy". Only one article. I think this is just some glitch in the matrix and that data-copy="copy" stands for "©" symbol. Such coincidence. Also usually caption styled differently from regular text. This site uses identifiable caption only in main photo and in slideshows.

Accepted without any commentary.

3 - Hang noodles on the ears

Here is two issues reported by me:

First

> Sorry, blah blah blah.. Have a nice day!
> Declined
The issue itself is obviously valid. Also I chosen that page for a reason. I thought that page will be checked (as always) but no one had time to check it. The issues being declined so fast so no one even noticed that template is missing form on reported page. And many many other issues (sample difficult links) but this is another story.

Second

> I also did not find it on other pages.

If there was caption when I reported that issue, maybe it should be checked more accurate? It seems they had remove caption from that article. Such articles can easily be found (took me a minute):

https://punditarena.com/football/oisinmcqueirns2758/12-quickfire-conclusions-as-ireland-limp-to-victory-over-gibraltar/
https://punditarena.com/mma/ccunningham/artem-lobov-edges-out-win-in-bareknuckle-debut-thriller/

https://punditarena.com/mma/oisinmcqueirns2758/dana-white-on-cowboy-vs-mcgregor-if-these-two-want-to-fight-im-in/

https://punditarena.com/football/oisinmcqueirns2758/irelands-graham-burke-secures-deadline-day-loan-to-league-one-gills/

Seems like sometimes they are getting removed.

4 - It's not :element_name: in the original article

https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/moika78.ru/template32/issue1/

We trying to make it look like it looks in the original article. We have a limited set of items. So please, if it's so critical, post in a commentary an argument on why it is not acceptable. For me it's best decision to format that block like this.

Add dividers around - There is no dividers in original page.
Put it into table - It's not a table in the original article. Btw such issues was declined wherever I reported them. People making a table out of everything.
Make a blockquote - Not a blockquote, blockquotes can be found below in the same article.
Leave it as regular text - This element should be separated from main content.

Checking

Made a template on werbewoche.ch just to check how is it going.
Previously one of my templates on another domain was rejected when admin found that in one article was no preview image. On that domain no one checked it.
It's ok. There was no issues at all. Just overlooked.

What's worse is when sample difficult links not checked. For example here:
https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/stavgorod.ru/
My template was rejected because of an issue found by admin. So that issue now in sample difficult links. I found out it too late. But was sure that difficult links will be checked on winning template. To secure this I reported the issue to previous template. But no one check that list.

And many many other issues were accepted/declined/overlooked by an accident (hopefully).
It's better to wait 1-2 extra weeks than face such