Why doesn't post #2566937 meet the quality standards? What are the quality standards anyway?

It's okish, just a bit blurry. If you scan it and color digitally, it would be even better.

aobird said:
It's okish, just a bit blurry. If you scan it and color digitally, it would be even better.

It's not even my art, so I can't

ijustwantupdates said:
It's not even my art, so I can't

Oh well, then just post other stuff, or other artists.

From what I have noticed, "quality standards" is really up to the moderators.
A rule of thumb is to not upload low resolution images and the image is not too amateur.
I also notice that images that are scans and are not obvious sketches, with plain coloring (usually one or two colors, no shading and uses crayon or colored pencil) usually have a greater chance of being taken off the site. I think this is what you image falls under, since it looks like it is a colored in coloring book sketch.
But like I said, it really is up to the mod who approves/deletes it, there really isn't a definitive line of what is considered "quality" or not. I've seen images that are drawn in MSpaint, way lower quality than your image and it got approved. I think this is the case because quality cannot be precisely defined. What one mod may think is crap another may think is pretty good.
Your image is a pretty good example of that, as if I were a moderator, I'd approve it thinking it was fine, but another moderator doesn't see it that way.

she's dead jim

Can someone else review that post? Because I don't think it's bad at all. Someone even commented that it was cute!

ijustwantupdates said:
Can someone else review that post? Because I don't think it's bad at all. Someone even commented that it was cute!

Being cute doesn't mean it meets quality standards.

furrin_gok said:
Being cute doesn't mean it meets quality standards.

But still, e621 is the only site I can use to properly share image links, because DA and FA links require people to be registered to see 18+ things and not everyone is. If quality standards are just the mod's opinion(basing that on poontang's reply), that's BS, because the same art could get approved or disapproved, it's basically random

If I were to guess, the issue is that it looks like scanned paper. According to the quality standards:

Uploading Guidelines say:

• Traditional media needs to be either scanned in properly or photographed with impeccable lighting and contrast.

Improving the contrast and cleaning up the speckles would probably help.

ijustwantupdates said:
But still, e621 is the only site I can use to properly share image links, because DA and FA links require people to be registered to see 18+ things and not everyone is. If quality standards are just the mod's opinion(basing that on poontang's reply), that's BS, because the same art could get approved or disapproved, it's basically random

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ijustwantupdates said:
... If quality standards are just the mod's opinion(basing that on poontang's reply), that's BS, because the same art could get approved or disapproved, it's basically random

What objective method of measuring image quality would you suggest?

korbok said:
What objective method of measuring image quality would you suggest?

At least some actual standards rather than it being the mod's choice what "standard" is

ijustwantupdates said:
At least some actual standards rather than it being the mod's choice what "standard" is

https://e621.net/wiki_pages/uploading_guidelines#quality These are the actual standards. What objective measures would you implement to these standards to ensure high quality uploads and eliminate opinion?

ijustwantupdates said:
At least some actual standards rather than it being the mod's choice what "standard" is

Or you can actually check the pinned posts in the forums https://e621.net/forum_topics/23578 https://e621.net/wiki_pages/uploading_guidelines

That post looks like a quickscan of what a kid drew in a notebook while bored in math class, probably that's why it was deleted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ijustwantupdates said:
But still, e621 is the only site I can use to properly share image links, because DA and FA links require people to be registered to see 18+ things and not everyone is. If quality standards are just the mod's opinion(basing that on poontang's reply), that's BS, because the same art could get approved or disapproved, it's basically random

Newtumbl is still around. Didn't kick off as well as the creators probably hoped, but it's still going.