Goodbye

[Warechu]

I don't really feel like I'm valued here, and whenever I try to do something nice no one cares. I've been sitting in submission hell for almost 9 months now, and seeing rips of games literally only like 5 people ever played being accepted on a weekly basis. Why even bother working for several days trying to rip, sort and post the audio of a game to just have it still being submitted after almost 9 months, not accepted, not even declined, but still haven't even been looked at as if no one cares. I'm not going to waste my time and effort doing work that no one will appreciate, so I'm no longer going to be making any more posts or submissions. 

[Pingus!]

I don't really feel like I'm valued here, and whenever I try to do something nice no one cares. I've been sitting in submission hell for almost 9 months now, and seeing rips of games literally only like 5 people ever played being accepted on a weekly basis. Why even bother working for several days trying to rip, sort and post the audio of a game to just have it still being submitted after almost 9 months, not accepted, not even declined, but still haven't even been looked at as if no one cares. I'm not going to waste my time and effort doing work that no one will appreciate, so I'm no longer going to be making any more posts or submissions. 

The problem is, we have an overload amount of submissions for roughly twelve staff members to go through and process (yes I am lazy), but we all care. We just have circumstances that sometimes prevent us from consistently checking submissions on a weekly basis, and when we do, we go in queue order from the oldest. People have been sitting in the queue for over a year, and yes while it is annoying, I don't think you understand how hard it is to check any submissions to make sure they aren't stolen, and they are up to the quality that is acceptable through our network. As well, it's not "work", ripping game assets is a completely volunteer basis activity, so the fact you're calling it a job is over-exaggerated. If you can't come to terms with how the site works in terms of processing submissions, then I highly recommend to not shut out so quickly, but give it a chance to work itself out. Either way, good luck in the future, and you are always welcome back to keep submitting to the site if you wish to do so.

[puggsoy]

Just to hop on with what Pingu said: the queues are also gigantic. The submissions you're seeing getting accepted have usually been waiting about as long as you have. We have submissions on The Sounds Resource waiting since June 2017, that's over a year ago. Unfortunately the combination of a large amount of awesome people (including you!) submitting heaps of rips, daily, and a dozen staff members with varying amounts of time and availability having to check these simply means that yeah, it's gonna take while. It does suck; 9 months is a lot and in an ideal situation you wouldn't have to wait that long, but that's how it is an you're definitely not the only one.

Don't forget that everybody involved, both submitters and staff, are doing this all in their free time. Nobody's earning a penny. I think it's an awesome achievement that this site is doing what it's doing at all, and having long queues is just a bit of a bummer. But just like submitters, the staff are humans with real lives and limited free time. There's a large list of things that can keep us from checking submissions (house chores, school, work, social responsibilities, projects, motivation, etc) and queues tend to build up if submissions are coming in faster than we can keep up with them. So it can be a bit painful when people think we don't care. Of course we do (that's why we're voluntary staff), but we need to get through other submissions first.

In any case, as I say to everyone, we will get around to you. We never leave submissions sitting for no reason. Once we do get to your submissions, we will either accept or decline it, not just skip it.