Lately, well not just lately, there has been a rather huge amount of relatively low-quality scans being uploaded.
These scans are often either have mass amounts of scan_artifacts, scanlines, creases or moire textures.
As someone who actively cleans scans, this is quite annoying to see.
- scan_artifacts can often be cleaned with no effort. There is always the case where effort is required , but that is not saying they can't be cleaned.
- scanlines often cannot be cleaned without damaging the image. This set is a nice example. The only image there that I would say could even possibly be cleaned would be post #1238294, and even then it would kill the quality of the background to do so.
- moire textures, the worst of the lot. This depends on how bad it is, but most often cannot be cleaned without ruining the quality of the scan.
- creases really shouldn't be uploaded any circumstances. Scans from posts like post #1256043, can often be decreased no problem. Scans from books on the other hand cannot be without a bit of redrawing, as the image is two seperate pages.
- There is also scans like this where the contrast is obviously too low.
- Aswell as the odd image which it is a single page of a two page scan (Like post #1240069 or post #1238315).
I might just be being picky, but this isn't a scan site. The only scans that should be posted are ones that are cleaned and complete.
If it's something that can be cleaned, it should be. If it can't then it shouldn't be uploaded.
If any of these were digital images, they would probably just get flagged and deleted for the quality.
I'm all for having more content on the site, but should this really include poor quality scans?
So I have two questions.
- Does the content outweigh the quality of the scan (So if it includes any of the above, should it be uploaded)?
- Should we start pushing all new scans into the queue regardless of the uploader, so that any contrib+ scans get checked? (This could be done with a bot if need be)
Updated by jxh2154