Suggestion: revamp the approval system

Dear mods & admins/coders, I have a request: change the way some posts are approved. Recently, I submitted this picture to Danbooru:
post #236096

The problem I have is that mods can approve pictures, but good pictures may be given a pass due to the personal preferences of the mods. This image that I uploaded received a score of 9 and was identified as a favorite six times before it was deleted in three days due to lack of approval. To me it makes no sense that an image so well liked would not be added to the image database. Nine out of ten people liked the picture, but all that mattered was what the tenth person did. I don't know if the mods liked it or not.

My proposal is that if a picture receives a score of seven and three favorites in three days, it should be approved by the server automatically. Seven is an appropriate number because it doesn't mean that two or three people can start getting bad pictures onto Danbooru easily; people will mark down those unwrothy images. The three favorites requirement would ensure that there remained accountability for those users by attaching their usernames (and IPs, I suspect) to what pictures were approved by the public. This proposal if enacted would take some load off the mods and ensure that good pictures make it onto Danbooru.

1) Votes (at least before the current, highly experimental system) are very easy to abuse.
2) I doubt anyone wants to be "held accountable" for the quality of the posts that they favorite. That's ridiculous.

This is not going to happen.

Even for my long-ass post in the other thread, I don't see how there would be a better alternative to the mod approval system. It's simpler and its fool proof. It's the best way to decide what lives up to the standard of Danbooru. There's no real clear line drawn in the sand for this standard, so it's best up to interpretation. And I'm guessing the mods didn't get their jobs by winning a lottery.

I get the frustration, though. Having posts that appear to be quality deleted is a major sucks when you're a normal member, because that deletion is going to stick itself to your account forever. In cases where the picture is popular, it's even more frustrating to have that count on your record.

Also. OxCCBA is right. Stay out of my favorites, man. I pass those out like candy.

This system could be abused so fast anyways, make 3 dummy accounts and favorite every image you upload.

I doubt there are many people who would make x accounts just to get a stupid image approved, and even if it sucks, mods can delete it. Anyway, the only possible 'revamp' that i can think of would be deleting the image after a number of mod have seen the image, and not after 3 days.. what if a mod that could have liked a picture was busy for a few days and could not log on danbooru? Make it 5 mods, 7 or 10, im not sure how many 'active' mods there are right now

Maybe the number of days could simply be extended, maybe to 5 or 7.

I've been thinking of creating a new user level between privileged and moderator. They'd be able to approve/reject posts but wouldn't have access to the more dangerous mass edit functionality. More janitors (name tentative) would simply mean more opportunities for approval.

I like that idea, albert.

Yeah, that seems a good idea since their main purpose would be to approve/reject posts.

I also like the idea to have a dedicated pool of image checkers. It's sad to see perfectly good images languish in the queue and in some cases get deleted due to inaction possibly because no one got there in time.

Janitors in Danbooru is a great idea. It will reduce the growing amount of unnaproved posts. I understand mods have their lives and are busy along the day, so Janitors could help them in the daily task.

Offtopic:
I recently uploaded some posts -with acceptable quality-, they were made in 3dcg, but a mod simply deleted them. I think that was by personal preference... but I've seen gross or crappy posts in whole danbooru that stay in danbooru!
That's another strange paradox... deleting by personal preferences. I respect mods, but this measure should be reviewed as well... just saying

Deletions of already approved posts don't seem to happen very often, though. Usually, it's on account of privileged user making a bad judgement, or a mod somehow letting a REALLY crappy pic slip through.