Hey, this is my first post on the site, and I'm not a part of the project, but I've been lurking here for a while, and I just felt compelled to interject.
I think it's fair to say that this is a necessity - it makes sure people are reliable (i.e. not posting incomplete sprites or sprites without backs and dumping even more work on the rest of the team to pick up their slack) and legitimate (i.e. people who have established credibility and won't just go around posting other artists' work) and that they can be held accountable if they aren't (if they're not doing their part and are causing problems, they can just be removed from the list of approved spriters without some ridiculous blacklist of "only these specific users CAN'T post here").
Meanwhile, I think "arrogance" is someone thinking they're above that process and somehow don't need to go through the same vetting as everyone else - that they should be welcomed with open arms into the project because they're just that good.
In any case, the point of having specific approved spriters and a shared chat is that it also allows them to collaborate and divide the work reasonably, which is obviously not going to happen if everyone is posting their own sprites on their own time. This thread is only seven pages long, and the ones posting sprites without approval didn't even properly read the first post - which is only three short paragraphs, and half of one of them is crossed out. How do you expect to open this to everyone at once without seeing three or four people post competing sprites for the same Pokémon while plenty of others need to be done? Establishing a reservation process, only accepting sprites from specific people who understand that reservation process and making sure those people are all in contact with one another is a perfectly good solution - and when the ones still posting sprites are by definition the ones who don't respect that reservation process, they would obviously be creating the exact problems this system is meant to avoid.
In any case, I really, REALLY don't think it's appropriate to clog up the thread with this discussion any longer. If people still have concerns with or questions about the process, I'm sure they can DM Leparagon (like he said on this very page...), but going out of your way to make the policy dispute a public affair - and insulting the people on the project while you're at it... - isn't something Leparagon should have to be dealing with right now.
Especially when the alternative is, you know, working on the project that you want so badly to speed up.
As a final note, if you still really badly want to contribute the project... I can't say if you'd actually be considered, but I'm sure there would be no harm in just contacting Leparagon and applying properly even though applications have officially ended. Even if you're a bit late to do it, I'm sure showing that you have some understanding of the process, that you can follow the process and that you're interested in collaborating as part of the team would at least give you a better chance than straight-up ignoring the rules and expecting your contributions to be taken seriously. I'm not sure if Leparagon would accept a late application either way, but I'm pretty confident that that's at least a much better way than posting unwanted "help" here.
It's not an "elite spriter group." There were applications. Literally anyone could apply.
I think it's fair to say that this is a necessity - it makes sure people are reliable (i.e. not posting incomplete sprites or sprites without backs and dumping even more work on the rest of the team to pick up their slack) and legitimate (i.e. people who have established credibility and won't just go around posting other artists' work) and that they can be held accountable if they aren't (if they're not doing their part and are causing problems, they can just be removed from the list of approved spriters without some ridiculous blacklist of "only these specific users CAN'T post here").
Meanwhile, I think "arrogance" is someone thinking they're above that process and somehow don't need to go through the same vetting as everyone else - that they should be welcomed with open arms into the project because they're just that good.
In any case, the point of having specific approved spriters and a shared chat is that it also allows them to collaborate and divide the work reasonably, which is obviously not going to happen if everyone is posting their own sprites on their own time. This thread is only seven pages long, and the ones posting sprites without approval didn't even properly read the first post - which is only three short paragraphs, and half of one of them is crossed out. How do you expect to open this to everyone at once without seeing three or four people post competing sprites for the same Pokémon while plenty of others need to be done? Establishing a reservation process, only accepting sprites from specific people who understand that reservation process and making sure those people are all in contact with one another is a perfectly good solution - and when the ones still posting sprites are by definition the ones who don't respect that reservation process, they would obviously be creating the exact problems this system is meant to avoid.
In any case, I really, REALLY don't think it's appropriate to clog up the thread with this discussion any longer. If people still have concerns with or questions about the process, I'm sure they can DM Leparagon (like he said on this very page...), but going out of your way to make the policy dispute a public affair - and insulting the people on the project while you're at it... - isn't something Leparagon should have to be dealing with right now.
Especially when the alternative is, you know, working on the project that you want so badly to speed up.
As a final note, if you still really badly want to contribute the project... I can't say if you'd actually be considered, but I'm sure there would be no harm in just contacting Leparagon and applying properly even though applications have officially ended. Even if you're a bit late to do it, I'm sure showing that you have some understanding of the process, that you can follow the process and that you're interested in collaborating as part of the team would at least give you a better chance than straight-up ignoring the rules and expecting your contributions to be taken seriously. I'm not sure if Leparagon would accept a late application either way, but I'm pretty confident that that's at least a much better way than posting unwanted "help" here.
