While in my game I decided to see what others that I have been following has added to the gallery when I came across this note put up by someone.Gallery has been taken over by cheaters and fakers, fake DLs $ flagging Is there something going on in the gallery?

Probably just the usual gallery drama. I remember somebody was accusing Maxis of being corrupt because their custom posed sims never got any maxis favourites or something.

"DominicLaurence;c-16798076" wrote:"QueenMercy;c-16798067" wrote:Probably just the usual gallery drama. I remember somebody was accusing Maxis of being corrupt because their custom posed sims never got any maxis favourites or something.Lol I have the extremely unpopular opinion that custom poses should be classified as custom content. I'd love to see the fires. They should!! It's not very fair for the others....

As a Gallery browser myself, there's been some talk about some petty people playing a kind of flagging game where they flag all the popular creations leading to the creations not being able to be seen if users have reported content hidden. That started earlier this month.As I'm starting to use custom poses myself, I disagree with them being marked as custom content. The only reason I use them is because the basic poses we're given are boring and don't provide better closeups of the Sims with them. The same can be said about the ways lots are viewed on the Gallery. Those camera angles rarely do some of the lots real justice.If we had better poses and camera angles to play with, I probably wouldn't have to use custom ones.

My question is how do they know it's fake downloads? Just because someone downloads your stuff doesn't mean they have to favorite it, right? I, myself, only favorite stuff that I really like, and plan to use again across several saves. Also, what if someone gets a new computer or something and they would have to re-download the stuff they've shared, right? I actually have had to do that a while back. I think they just worry too much about Maxis favorites and numbers, honestly. I upload to share, yes, but I also don't care about numbers. If people like my stuff, fine. If they don't, that's fine too. Not losing any sleep. The only problem I have with the gallery is when people re-upload your stuff.

"JC1979;c-16798195" wrote:I think they are mad in regards of their items being downloaded and someone else taking credit for their creation by uploading the item again without giving credit to the original creator.That’s mostly confined to the #stopstealing, but I have noticed people getting mad about reuploads (that show the original creator) even when it’s obvious stuff has been changed just by the packs used. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is at least partially because the current default gallery filter is set to “popular now” which seems to constantly feature stuff by the same people.

Am I missing something that is going on in the gallery?

44 Replies

x4m1r4
8 years ago
What is that? That's weird...
LaBlue0314
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
@xamira99 That was all it said, I copied it exactly as they had it.
x4m1r4
8 years ago
That's totally weird.. I'm going to check out my gallery..
Kathykins
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
I've read about people doing downloads cheating, but this doesn't sound like that. No idea what that would mean. I'm puzzled...
x4m1r4
8 years ago
Emm.. I didn't see it... :#
JestTru
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
I downloaded a couple sims today with no issues.
ValiantRedKnight
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Probably just the usual gallery drama. I remember somebody was accusing Maxis of being corrupt because their custom posed sims never got any maxis favourites or something.
dianed485
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"DominicLaurence;c-16798076" wrote:
"QueenMercy;c-16798067" wrote:
Probably just the usual gallery drama. I remember somebody was accusing Maxis of being corrupt because their custom posed sims never got any maxis favourites or something.

Lol I have the extremely unpopular opinion that custom poses should be classified as custom content. I'd love to see the fires.

They should!! It's not very fair for the others....
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
As a Gallery browser myself, there's been some talk about some petty people playing a kind of flagging game where they flag all the popular creations leading to the creations not being able to be seen if users have reported content hidden. That started earlier this month.

As I'm starting to use custom poses myself, I disagree with them being marked as custom content. The only reason I use them is because the basic poses we're given are boring and don't provide better closeups of the Sims with them. The same can be said about the ways lots are viewed on the Gallery. Those camera angles rarely do some of the lots real justice.

If we had better poses and camera angles to play with, I probably wouldn't have to use custom ones.
SweetieWright_84
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
My question is how do they know it's fake downloads? Just because someone downloads your stuff doesn't mean they have to favorite it, right? I, myself, only favorite stuff that I really like, and plan to use again across several saves. Also, what if someone gets a new computer or something and they would have to re-download the stuff they've shared, right? I actually have had to do that a while back. I think they just worry too much about Maxis favorites and numbers, honestly. I upload to share, yes, but I also don't care about numbers. If people like my stuff, fine. If they don't, that's fine too. Not losing any sleep. The only problem I have with the gallery is when people re-upload your stuff.