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Jun 05, 2025 - edited Jun 05, 2025 - permalink

It's intentional if the one that was kept was uploaded first. In that case, all you did with your later (merged) upload is create work for people who reported it and staff who merged it, so I don't see why you'd deserve credit for it.

Did I post it later? I'd like to see the timestamps, because the GMW didn't tell me that something of other user was already in the queue/or was a duplicated image when I uploaded it. Not only did it not tell me, but I clearly remember this user's image appearing almost 10, 12 hours after I posted (it may have been less and just my feeling, but it definitely wasn't in the sequence and it wasn't before me) it here. Something's weird, right?

Chainer
Jun 06, 2025 - permalink

Did I post it later? I'd like to see the timestamps

Yours:

Uploaded: 2025-06-02T19:31:05-04:00
Posted:   2025-06-02T22:30:03-04:00

The kept one:

Uploaded: 2025-06-02T01:34:45-04:00
Posted:   2025-06-03T18:33:26-04:00

So the kept one was indeed posted later. It is unknown if it was on the waitlist (and visible to you) or not.

Regardless, it was uploaded first.

You can avoid this situation by not uploading pictures of popular models like Julia Caceres and uploading less well-known models instead, as I have already said in this thread roughly a million times.

Jun 06, 2025 - permalink

Yours:

Uploaded: 2025-06-02T19:31:05-04:00 Posted: 2025-06-02T22:30:03-04:00

The kept one:

Uploaded: 2025-06-02T01:34:45-04:00 Posted: 2025-06-03T18:33:26-04:00

So the kept one was indeed posted later. It is unknown if it was on the waitlist (and visible to you) or not.

Regardless, it was uploaded first.

You can avoid this situation by not uploading pictures of popular models like Julia Caceres and uploading less well-known models instead, as I have already said in this thread roughly a million times.

Thanks for the clarification, because as I said, my image was posted first (although I now know it wasn't uploaded first and the other user was probably on the waiting list because he probably had exceeded his daily uploads). Now... GWM has warned me a few times that the image I was trying to upload/post had already been uploaded/posted (the most recent case it was with a video of Michelle McNamee). My doubt is: why didn't this happen again? Because then I would have been alerted to the error that someone else had already uploaded the image. Makes sense, right?

The issue is that, for more well-known models, it may be necessary to create a more efficient mechanism to avoid this type of confusion. After all, my image was posted first, but it was uploaded later, and for that reason I "disappear" from the credit. It doesn't seem very fair to me. It's not my fault if the other user exceeded his daily posting quota while I had the possibility of posting the image right away, precisely because I contribute to lesser-known models to GWM. This is something for the moderators to think about...

P.S: And yes, I try to follow the tip of looking for lesser-known models, just one click on my profile is enough to know that I try to post those ones.

Chainer
Jun 06, 2025 - permalink

Now... GWM has warned me a few times that the image I was trying to upload/post had already been uploaded/posted (the most recent case it was with a video of Michelle McNamee). My doubt is: why didn't this happen again?

The ability of the site to auto-reject uploads is limited. With videos, it only happens if it's the same file, byte-for-byte. With images, only if the dimensions are the same and it is visually very similar. Instagram often hosts many versions of the same files in a way that does not always trigger our auto dupe detection if someone uploaded one and you upload a different one.

The issue is that, for more well-known models, it may be necessary to create a more efficient mechanism to avoid this type of confusion.

Necessary, my ass. Making it less annoying for people to upload the sorts of pictures I'm already trying to discourage is about as low on my priority list as it is possible to be.

Your (and others') refusal to stop uploading these sorts of pictures despite the annoyance is not my problem, it is yours.

After all, my image was posted first, but it was uploaded later, and for that reason I "disappear" from the credit. It doesn't seem very fair to me.

No one is punishing you. We're just not rewarding you.

It's not my fault if the other user exceeded his daily posting quota while I had the possibility of posting the image right away

Upload quota doesn't factor it. They uploaded the image a full 18 hours before you did.

P.S: And yes, I try to follow the tip of looking for lesser-known models, just one click on my profile is enough to know that I try to post those ones.

Well maybe you should do more of that, then, and less of this.

Jun 06, 2025 - permalink

For context, here's the thread where Chainer mentioned the change of later uploaders of merged duplicates not getting credit a couple years ago (it went without much comment, so I had forgotten about it): https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/forum/thread/...

Jun 06, 2025 - permalink

For context, here's the thread where Chainer mentioned the change of later uploaders of merged duplicates not getting credit a couple years ago (it went without much comment, so I had forgotten about it): https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/forum/thread/...

Thanks for sharing.

Jun 07, 2025 - permalink

My post got merged into https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/2536613/ although it was a different video?

Jun 07, 2025 - permalink

My post got merged into although it was a different video?

We reserve the right to merge images and videos that are deemed to be similar.

Jun 07, 2025 - permalink

Okay I see. And if I can ask about

why did you keep the old one that's less cropped and has the music overlay in it? I thought the new one would count as higher quality.

Chainer
Jun 07, 2025 - permalink

I'm not the one who merged it, but the kept one is both less cropped and it was uploaded earlier.

The quality itself seems similar. The girl takes up more pixels in your version but it's hard to say if it's higher quality or just blown up in size. If I can't tell the difference within a second or two of looking at it, I consider them to be the same quality.

Jun 07, 2025 - permalink

Got it thanks for the explanation.

Jun 08, 2025 - permalink

Why this image merged? I have uploaded first and with better quality too

Chainer
Jun 08, 2025 - permalink

I don't think yours is higher quality, it just looks like a very blown up blurry version.

Jun 08, 2025 - permalink

Can I ask about the reason of this merge?!.. As i believe mine is better quality even if this picture was uploaded before :

Chainer
Jun 08, 2025 - permalink

Come on dude, you know better than this, yours is a blown up version of the other one with a negligible difference in quality.

Jun 09, 2025 - permalink

Thanks for the clarification .. I really didn't notice that my version is a blown up version of this one..

Thanks again.

Jun 11, 2025 - permalink

Why do you neanderthal moderators merge duplicate images keeping the ones with worse quality just because they were uploaded first?

Jun 12, 2025 - permalink
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Chainer
Jun 12, 2025 - permalink

We often merge images which are very similar but not exact duplicates.

Chainer
Jun 12, 2025 - permalink

In fact, a mod says so 10 posts above yours, if you bothered to read a little bit of the thread before posting.

Jun 12, 2025 - permalink
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Chainer
Jun 12, 2025 - permalink

I don't understand why doing that instead of actually getting rid of the real duplicates in the site.

It's not like it has to be one or the other. We do both.

Jun 12, 2025 - edited Jun 12, 2025 - permalink
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Jun 12, 2025 - permalink

As previously chainer recommended to me, now I did some reading of the previous posts on this thread. Finding that if my upload was in the site before a better quality one, I get credit.(https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/forum/thread/...)

So in that case, I need to be clarified in which of these merges applied to previous posts I can get credit of:

I don't even want to get credit for uploading existing images in better quality. My rating on this site doesn't go in my CV, lol.

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