Yeah thank you for that one http://whatthemovie.com/shot/43440

Was hoping it would get through after my 2 b&W rejections. And now I have 3 b&w on the go...

I would like to thank you so much for accepting http://whatthemovie.com/shot/46995# , I was getting dishearten by such low ratings... Since it has not been solved yet to help you guys that read the forum :) I could tell you it is from a famous movie, and by famous I only mean it's not some obscure movie from an unknown director...

Cotp

http://whatthemovie.com/shot/49437 , thanks for passin' this one! this was a very important moment in the storyline of this film ;) good thing you guys reckognized that!

Thanks for letting http://whatthemovie.com/shot/50795 go through to FF :) I really like the shot myself and don't understand the low rating.!

A remark about the "magically accepted shots": if you choose to be informed by a shout on your profile, you get the message "your shot has been magically accepted", but if you choose the mail alert, you always get the same message "good news, your shot has been accepted" and you don't know whether it was pushed or not. Although I suspect that most of my shots have been pushed by the moderators, I never had the mail confirmation of it.

Thanks for pushing http://whatthemovie.com/shot/70622 , finally I got a shot of this movie into FF.

Thank you thank you thank you for my shot http://whatthemovie.com/shot/71401 It had such a low ranking, but you still let it through. Thanks guys!!!

They work fine for me.

Thanks so much for 70912 :3 I'd get very sad if it didn't get through. Still can't believe there's only two solves though =P

Although I suspect most of my accepted shots are pushed by the mods, I never had the formal proof since it is not indicated in the mail we receive. But this night at 2:23, one of my shot was timed out, and this morning at 8:43 it has been accepted. Thanks for my 100th upload !
http://whatthemovie.com/shot/72934

@Efji, normally it should say if it has been accepted or "Magically" accepted
It doesn't by email?

ha ok didn't know that

Thank you very much for putting this through =) http://whatthemovie.com/shot/73587
Although I didn't think that it wouldn't make it with this high rating ;) But there have been some great shots lately, so I guess these had a better rating :)

It deserved it, Mike =) I was really hoping some moderator would save it. Now some long days to find the title out, haha.
Thanks you guys for pushing up @75924 ^.~
Edited: I woudln't think it could make it on it's own cause it was way down from 8, so it's a good surprise ^_^ thanks everyone who voted then! And thanks m00ch for telling me ;)

Thank you very very much for pushing my shot (#76721)

Thank you very much for pushing #76572, #77053 and all the other snapshots where i didn't noticed it because of email notification (switched to scruffy 3 days ago ;) )

Thanks guys for #77706 and #77703!!

I also want to thank you guys. i think, 2/3 of my uploads have been magically accepted :-) thanks again

I like to say thank you for all my shots that are magically accepted. Unfortunately it isn't mentioned in the mail you receive, so you don't really know, but I have a feeling magic was involved with a lot of them. So thank you for all my magically accepted shots!

Oh, i've never seen this topic before!
A BIG BIG, VEEEEEERY BIG THANK YOU for all my magically accepted shots!
I think i would not have even 1/4 of my shots on the FF if it wasnt for you!

Thank you for http://whatthemovie.com/shot/80947
It's one of my own personal favorite shot, so thank you for having magically accepted it, and thank you to all the voters who rated it before !

thanks for http://whatthemovie.com/shot/81115 !
i really thought it was a great shot, but the rating is very very low..
i love the composition of the shot, the colors, the quality, so thanks!!

Many, many thanks for http://whatthemovie.com/shot/75849, http://whatthemovie.com/shot/78534 and http://whatthemovie.com/shot/79887 !!!!!

Didn't see this topic before. So now is the tim to thank you for ALL my magically accepted uploads.

THANKS!!!

Hey Patrick,

The reasons are too numerous and varied to list. I guess one of the main reasons is purely the visual impact of the shot. Sometimes its down to personal preference of the moderator, sometimes its based on the amount of shots and favourites an image has, sometimes its by accident :)) Sometimes a lot of easy shots have gone through so I try to pick some nice looking harder shots. And vice versa. Sometimes the shot is a particularly good representation of the movie in a single still, sometimes its because a shot has been "the next image to go through" all day, but a higher scoring image keeps popping up and preventing it from going through. Sometimes the shot is a key moment in the film. Sometimes it is based on the solve rate (I think a 1:3 or 1:2 solve/vote ratio is a nice figure for a challenging shot) . Sometimes I know the image is from a film which is hard to get "awesome" images from so it might get bumped up a bit to ensure the film is allowed some representation.

As you can see, thats a lot of "sometimes". I hope we don't have to go down the road of justifying every shot that a moderator puts through, although I would like to think I can offer a satisfactory explanation of why I personally put most images through, even though sometimes the justification might be as simple as "I really liked the shot" :)

I would hope the fact that we are saving some shots from being rejected by the community score, is enough justification for most. From my point of view your suggestion is a bad idea. It will lead to lots of conversations like "this user had x shot put through because of this reason, but my shot didnt even though it fills the same criteria" etc.. The criteria changes and varies day to day.

I am only speaking for myself here, I can't talk for the other moderators, but I hope this explains it a little.