How are people bypassing "Modded" tag in the gallery?

No reason to attack @windweaver, because we have explained all of that yesterday. What you bring up here to start a drama has already been discussed.

Those pants look like... "I pooped my pants."

@Elisabetta I have to agree. Soo many problems and it's really easy to learn how to get CC. The best part is you actually know what you have and you can organize it.

"LittleMinxUndr;13561830" wrote:
No reason to attack @windweaver, because we have explained all of that yesterday. What you bring up here to start a drama has already been discussed.

*shrugs* Their comment really rubbed me the wrong way. Sorry it bothered you, not sorry I posted it though.

@EIisabetta I'm inclined to believe it is done on purpose, in some kind of cheat-y way. I remember someone bringing this up in the "bug" thread and I'm pretty sure crinrict said that EA are "looking into it", and (to me anyway) it sounded like everyone's consensus is that the uploaders are certainly breaking SOMETHING to bypass the Modded tag.

I have a simblr and even the very "popular" CC users who upload their sims/houses to Gallery always make note of them being "Modded", so one would need to tick the "include CC" option to find the stuff. So if there was an easy honest way to un-Mod Modded content, I'm sure they would be doing that. I had a suspicion that maybe those who merge their CC avoid the "Modded" tag that way, but most of my friends on tumblr merge their CC and upload stuff that's "Modded".

Plus, if you go to the person's library, their offending uploads will not have the tag either. So it's not the "search" that removes the tags, it's the uploader.

"Modded" tag seems to be lax when it comes to sims, but it's is insanely hard to get rid of on lots. My CC-free lots used to get automatically flagged as "Modded" just because I had stuff in the Mods folder (completely unrelated to the build. They were cosmetic mods like smaller censor mosaic, removal of music notes and ZZZ's, and so on), so I would need to take out my Mods folder every time I wanted to upload a build. Also, did you know that if you take a photograph (using the Get To Work skill) of a CC object, that PHOTOGRAPH (essentially GTW object) will "become" CC? So if you take a photo of some CC sandals and try to use the photo in your retail store and upload it, your lot will be labeled as "Modded" unless you remove the photos. It's so bizarre. :/

"EIisabetta;13561826" wrote:

"windweaver;13556751" wrote:
This is not the first thread I've seen today on this topic. And I have no idea what you people are talking about with the "avoid the filter" concept. When I upload a sim, there is nothing that I can see that allows me to do anything except "upload" to the gallery. So, I just can't imagine what your problem is.

When I look at the gallery, I have to enable cc to show up, so again, I don't know what your problem is?

You must have your settings on some kind of accept all or something. B/c like I said, I MUST enable cc.

I'm going to totally call BS on your claim. Have a print screen from tonight :) As you can clearly see I do not have CC checked and yet, look at all those 'modded' sims. That's sorted from downloads, last 7 days. If I go back to most recent uploads the sims all appear normal, if I tell it to show custom content on most recent, I get some different sims that obviously have cc. I'm thinking, honestly, when sorting by favorites or downloads, it breaks the CC filter somehow. I don't think people are avoiding the filter, I think the filter is broken.

HOWEVER, next time, you might not want to know what you're talking about before you barge into a thread being rude because YOU, personally, haven't experienced what a whole bunch of other people are experiencing.. I don't know what your problem is either.

http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj485/Jeanette_Thompson/ccingallery_zpsuis4ligd.jpg

whatever, call it late for dinner, for all I care.

I don't see it, when I look.

"LittleMinxUndr;13561830" wrote:
No reason to attack @windweaver, because we have explained all of that yesterday. What you bring up here to start a drama has already been discussed.

Thank you LittleMinx.

And to the offender, just for the record, I don't "barge" in on the threads, I have been a member of these forums since the sims 2 days, before OFB was released. My experience is just as valid as anyone else. I wasn't trying to be rude, I was simply stating the facts as I saw them.

When we sort by downloads, are we seeing a lot of stuff that was uploaded before those advanced options were put in? By which I mean, it's not "7 days of recent uploads sorted by most downloaded," it's "whatever was most downloaded in the last 7 days, no matter when it was uploaded".

Or is CC showing up even on Most Recent?

(Asking because I almost never open the Gallery so I can't recall what I've seen when)

"Joolster;13561950" wrote:
@EIisabetta I'm inclined to believe it is done on purpose, in some kind of cheat-y way. I remember someone bringing this up in the "bug" thread and I'm pretty sure crinrict said that EA are "looking into it", and (to me anyway) it sounded like everyone's consensus is that the uploaders are certainly breaking SOMETHING to bypass the Modded tag.

I have a simblr and even the very "popular" CC users who upload their sims/houses to Gallery always make note of them being "Modded", so one would need to tick the "include CC" option to find the stuff. So if there was an easy honest way to un-Mod Modded content, I'm sure they would be doing that. I had a suspicion that maybe those who merge their CC avoid the "Modded" tag that way, but most of my friends on tumblr merge their CC and upload stuff that's "Modded".

Plus, if you go to the person's library, their offending uploads will not have the tag either. So it's not the "search" that removes the tags, it's the uploader.

"Modded" tag seems to be lax when it comes to sims, but it's is insanely hard to get rid of on lots. My CC-free lots used to get automatically flagged as "Modded" just because I had stuff in the Mods folder (completely unrelated to the build. They were cosmetic mods like smaller censor mosaic, removal of music notes and ZZZ's, and so on), so I would need to take out my Mods folder every time I wanted to upload a build. Also, did you know that if you take a photograph (using the Get To Work skill) of a CC object, that PHOTOGRAPH (essentially GTW object) will "become" CC? So if you take a photo of some CC sandals and try to use the photo in your retail store and upload it, your lot will be labeled as "Modded" unless you remove the photos. It's so bizarre. :/

All my sims show in my personal gallery as modded, even though some of them only have default replacement eyes and no added CC (I haven't uploaded any of those to the gallery). I'm not sure how they can bypass anything since the game automatically marks things as modded with zero input from the poster. I guess maybe an extensive google search is in order, though. Since the 'most recent' sims with CC have the wrench on them, but the ones in the 'most downloads past 7 days' don't have it even though one I looked at was uploaded on April 15, well after the gallery changes. So maybe you're right but I honestly don't know how they might do it because any sim I personally create with CC is marked without me doing anything, you know?

When I look at the gallery under most recent, the filter works as it should. If I toggle it on and off, the modded sims vanish or appear. That's how it is supposed to work, but I haven't seen any of those weird ones with angel or fairy wings, etc yet in that grouping and scrolling down, I haven't run into any obviously modded sims with my CC filter off.

The problem is in viewing things either most downloaded or most liked for the past 7 days or all time. It could be some of those were uploaded before the changes to the gallery, I don't know, however, there's no way to NOT see them and toggling the CC filter does not make them vanish.

"luthienrising;13562803" wrote:
When we sort by downloads, are we seeing a lot of stuff that was uploaded before those advanced options were put in? By which I mean, it's not "7 days of recent uploads sorted by most downloaded," it's "whatever was most downloaded in the last 7 days, no matter when it was uploaded".

Or is CC showing up even on Most Recent?

(Asking because I almost never open the Gallery so I can't recall what I've seen when)

When you sort by # of downloads or favorites, it doesn't matter when it was uploaded as far as I can tell. However, the #1 download for the past 7 days, was uploaded on the 15th, has no modded tag (either in the gallery search or going to their profile page) and obvious CC. Even though the creator DOES say in the description there's CC and supposedly provided the link on where to get it in the comments of the upload (I didn't bother looking).

"MarianneSimmer;13465630" wrote:
> @Alysha1988 said:
> Idk but I've had cc free items marked as having cc and I cant uncheck the box. Idk how ppl could get around it.

I had that problem and it was a mod I had causing it. I can't remember which, though.

I had to take out all my mods to be able to have a lot be flagged without CC in the gallery I just uploaded today. DO you know which mod you had to take out??? Thank you!