Is this professional?

[Chadook]

When requesting something from a forum or you submit your works to a specific site, and it gets declined without mentioning anything needed to be improved or just saying "you don't meet the requirements". When you fix everything and ask the admin or moderator whether the improvements are good or not and they do not reply.
What do you think of this?

 

[Red Herring]

I believe I'd prefer to see the full side of such a story before I were to make a judgement on professionalism and right or wrong.

As an observer, it appears to me as though you yourself are the offended in this particular scenario or one similar, which makes the presented perspective a very biased one; not necessarily based in rationality or 100% factual accuracy. Your description of this event is one that casts the entirety of the light on yourself and leaves everything else in obscurity. It's a description that seems as though it seeks only to recruit yes-men to the discussion.

No offense, of course. But I don't believe it fair to answer such a biased/obvious question without hearing from its other half.

If it occurred exactly as your perspective perceives it to have, then that would be a very clear, indisputable and evident "no" to your question. I do not believe anyone would find such administrative manner to be "professional."

 

[Chadook]

That's not true, the first post is the full story already meaning i have submitted something with flaws then you got the rejection without mentioning where the flaws are. I'm not putting the light on myself and i'm not asking for absolute yes either, No Offense, but i don't think you get the point at the first place. That's not even a story, it's a fact can possibly exist, for example, if you send an archive Containing a theme, in which you forgot some of the theme'r part files, then your theme doesn't get the approval of Admin/mod without telling exactly where the problem is, how can you fix something you can't see? Furthermore, When someone is Giving You C+C to something you made, for example: "The Theme is fully Broken". Then what? How can you fix if you are not aware of what to fix? If the user says instead: "The Theme is fully Broken, when i click UCP link, it leads me to a blank Page, header has some visible html Mark ups, the Bckground seems smaller in my computer, when i view the Private message, The Huge Avatar covers most of the message... ", once you Understand the Faulties, you start Fixing/improving
.Use Logic, Not that whole anti-scenario Replies, i'm not narrating things or making things up, i was trying to state a fact.

 

[VirusZero]

What Red Herring means (and I agree with) is that there are 2 sides to everything. (Your side and that staff's side.) But you're only giving us your part. We don't know what they think or why they rejected your submission. (And the worry here is that maybe you actually do know but aren't telling us. Which, unfortunately, is a common issue with any sort of thread where someone asks for thoughts on right/wrong with their own situation as a base. )

Unfortunately this can come across as just looking for people to blindly agree with you. But anyone who is an admin should know that there are two sides to everything.



In terms of rejecting submissions...
Sites are not obligated to explain why a submission isn't accepted. Never presume that they should have to tell you anything. (It might be good if they want to explain, but they don't have to. And sometimes they may not be able to take time to go into depth if they have a lot of submissions and/or your submission needs a lot of fixing.)

Sometimes it's as simple as there was a common error (which was explained how to fix in the FAQ) and they've taken a tough stance on it rather than try to explain to everyone how to fix it.
Or even that there were a lot of little things wrong that just added up to show a submission wasn't really fit to be added.

Other times maybe they just don't want to accept any new submissions right then so they deny it. (Maybe they're already swamped and can't handle more? Or they have submissions being marked as closed right now and people who submit anyway get rejected because they didn't listen?)

Or maybe they've seen your work before and know your work isn't a good fit for their site. (Perhaps it's not a style they want to showcase or maybe they don't agree with it. )

It's probably best not to take it personally. Better to just accept that your submission was rejected and move on.
Sure it might sting they rejected your submission, but they probably did so for a reason (even if they don't tell you) and it's pointless to dwell on it.
I would also recommend against trying to fix up a rejected submission to resubmit. It was probably rejected for a reason and resubmitting it, when they haven't given you any indication of why, won't likely make them change their minds. Again, there could be nothing technically wrong with your submission other than they just don't want it.

 

[Ashley]

When requesting something from a forum or you submit your works to a specific site, and it gets declined without mentioning anything needed to be improved or just saying "you don't meet the requirements". When you fix everything and ask the admin or moderator whether the improvements are good or not and they do not reply.
What do you think of this?

I would PM the owner and explain the situation at hand if I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, especially if I've gone back and fixed everything that needed fixing. Because if the staff isn't specific enough as to what you're doing wrong, you should be able to go to the owner and say "Hey, what do I need to improve on with this request/topic/whatever?" And they should be able to help you out there. I've even had incidents here on FP where I've had to PM a staff member when something's been rejected for me not doing it the right way. 9 times out of 10 they've been pretty helpful to me here, saying things like "you got rejected for such and such reasons" or "your request got rejected because you didn't have enough FP cash" or something like that.

 

[hadee41]

I think, this is not a professional.

 

[Soapbox]

Regardless, if an explanation is asked, it should be given. That does not take an hour to do. Forum admin/owners also must do unpopular and unpleasant tasks.
They should not always be delegated. So yes, giving a straight answer is the decent way to go.