Sets in member review that should have been rejected

I agree with Morrigan.

Bad photography should be an instant decline even if the Hopeful is smoking hot. I see a lot of sets that comprises of just a collection of pictures. If there is no clear continuity that should also be a decline. One final pet peeve is the same look picture after picture. This even applies to sets that make it. If the girl has the same expression in every single shot, it should be declined. I like real women not the plasticine-look of a Maxxum or Playboy model. By the way, there has been too many of those approved as of late.

While I enjoy the lulz brought by many of the poorly shot and poorly posed sets that I've seen in MR I think they are somewhat insulting to the girls and photographers who have some idea how to select and prepare a setting, compose a shot, and pose attractively.

On the other hand, considering some of the sets I've seen make it into MR I'm kinda morbidly curious to see the ones that didn't make it.

I fully agree with what's been said before, including having a group sift through the sets for staff, if there are so many. Perhaps the Council? There should be more of a push to the already existing Hopefuls group. That's what it's for! Get those horribly shot sets out of MR.

The only sets we should see in MR are sets that actually have a chance of going live. Sets that look like they took ten minutes to shoot, use flash, are all blurry, are shot in a messy bedroom, bathroom or living room, are terribly posed, and feature the same pose over and over again are never going to be featured on the front page, no matter how hot the model is. As Bill said, it's kind of insulting to the girls who actually know what they're doing, and put a lot of work into their sets, to have their sets put into the same category as the sets that are laughably bad.

+1

Sometimes I think "Is this an OB/GYN textbook?"

i really think that staff should be more selective. in my opinion MR should be a place for sets with real chances for going live! sets with a bad photographic quality (even if the girl looks really hot) shall be left outside. the girls can upload them in their own pics section and can ask for feedback in their blogs as well as in the hopefuls group.

I saw this thread title and clicked on it with dread, thinking this was going to be a drama-filled hatefest with links to sets people didn't think belonged in MR. Thank goodness I was wrong!

I feel like the only things that should go into Member Review are sets that SG would be proud to display on the front page, but for whatever reason SG just can't buy the set at the moment -- or SG loved the set but is unsure how well it'd be received by the audience. It should not be a place for practice sets or a dumping ground for sets that don't meet SG's standards.

That way, Member Review helps the very best sets rise to the top and would truly help SG find the sets that "slipped through the cracks."

To which I have to say... so? Life ain't fair, and wanting to be a Suicidegirl really really badly doesn't mean you "deserve" to be a Suicidegirl!

Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm mean.

I just want to emphasize this, because one of the things I've liked about member review is that low resolution sets weren't automatically disqualified. Obviously the sets need to have a good quality to them, but I have a hard time imagining that sets like Flux's Video Voyeur or Dot's Writhing would have made it up in the year or so before member review.

I was going to say the exact same thing.

So what?
Back in the day before this MR stuff, girls were getting rejected all the time - and they either:

a) sucked it up and kept trying
b) handled it poorly and stopped trying

I don't think that you should be having to bend over backwards and changing things that worked, to make girls feel like they were "given a shot".

As Shalome already said - just because you WANT something, doesn't mean you'll get it, or that you deserve it.

Seriously - how many of the girls that apply and send in sets even KNOW what a good quality set looks like? Or participate in the community? Lots of them see it as a way to make money, and that's it, that's all.