They are Avengers fan, I guess

They rejected one of mine, but then I just changed the background and they accepted it (it was kind of busy at first). Maybe your mockup just had too much going on? I say try it again.

Maybe they just don't like slang...

There are almost 100 people deciding what tees are approved its not just staff disliking it

I doubt it was the mock-up....it was pretty simple...

if its not overdrawn with blood oozing out of it than mintees doesn't like it.

YEah - but I feel like they've come a long ways since Emptees...most of the stuff up is decent now...

I honestly think they've taken a step back.

Really? I haven't put a ton of stuff up there - why do you think that? Design quality? The new filter process?...

juts got mine rejected too...

I just get 404 not founds when I try to get to mintees.

mintees is down!

thats because me and brian are avenging our designs by sabotaging mintees website!! muahahahahahahahaa....

heh i hardly use mintees but then i hardly used emptees in the past

They pretty much reject everything I submit lately but that doesn't make me sad or mad, that just makes me submit more and more over there!;P

If that's what you submitted up there then it probably got rejected because it's at 640x320 instead of 800x400, but maybe that's just the flickr resize thing.

I would've approved it had I seen it in the queue, but I guess there are some designs every now and then that probably should've been let through, and some that shouldn't have. I wouldn't get too worked up over it, if I have stuff rejected I just sub it to the critiques section and while basically nobody checks that (because it's filled with crap) it's at least on my profile page as a tee.

they rejected first thing I subbed there and didnt bother again, the approval wait is also so slow (total waste)... my mintees accnt is just remnants of my emptees.

I do miss emptees but so much trashy talk there anyway lols

those sites attract bad clients on most parts (in my case anyway)

Adhesive Hippo on Aug 21 '11 at 10:19am
If that's what you submitted up there then it probably got rejected because it's at 640x320 instead of 800x400, but maybe that's just the flickr resize thing.

It's just a flickr resize so it can fit here - it was 800x400.

I'm not that worked up, just didn't know that Mintees had become so selective. It's the first thing I've ever had rejected, so I guess I just didn't know - and have been lucky.

They usully reject me within an hour after I submit but I've read they reject really shitty designs right away, maybe they just see my name and they automatically delete it...

It seems that a few people in this forum know how the selection/rejection process works. I'd love to know.

It sounds like it's committee? A bunch of people vote to reject/accept?

Nice design.

I haven't had trouble with rejection or long waits on Mintees, but I do question some of the designs they put in their top 10.

Yeah - the wait seems pretty reasonable. I mean Emptees was up instantly but there was NO filter, which I appreciate.

i reckon if you haven't heard "beast" used in that way the whole design looks pretty lame. it's just a skater identifying a celebrity. imagine switching the beast for mickey mouse, and the guy going "dude, that's mickey mouse". it takes on a whole different tone. i bet that's what went wrong.

^that's true d3d.

But as for the process, I believe there's between 50-75 people who have the ability to go to the Approve section, and they can vote up or vote down the design, or just ignore it. We don't know how many of each have already been chosen, so there's not any peer pressuring going on. There are I think four mods (dobi, craig robson, quakerninja, and derek deal, well and jared, the coder, but idk if he votes) who can instantly approve/deny any design, and either all the mods or just dobi can make certain people auto-approve. After a certain amount of up votes, idk how many, it gets sent to the tees page.

The community decided to change it because emptees had gotten overrun with crap, a lot from indonesia actually but a lot from other places as well. People got sick of having to wade through the tees section to find anything good, and some good stuff got pushed to page 2 within a couple hours because of all the crap. There was a flagging system but people decided it would be better to do this new system.

If it's a really good/really bad design it takes maybe an hour or two tops to be chosen, if it's between it takes around 10 hours probably and if it's on the fence, where more people ignore it because they don't know which way to vote, it can take up to 24 hours.

Thanks for the clarification Hippo!

Definitely sheds some light on how it all works :)

@d3d - good point!