While I understand what led to the policy change...

And I can see both the pros and the cons....

Might I make a suggestion?

Perhaps having a 'queue' link somewhere on OUR side, so we (as content/freebie uploaders) can double check to see what we still have in the queue? That would be EXTREMELY handy, and help avoid a LOT of the sheer frustration entailed in 'did I send this into the queue yet? Nothing's come through for two days, do I dare upload, am I gonna have to delete something and then wait another two days for it to go up??)

(Not to mention we could, theoretically by being able to see what items we have in queue, even double check how many ITEMS are sitting in that queue = less items you might have to delete??)

Just my thoughts, for what they are worth. I don't mind having the queue. The part that gets so frustrating for me, is the fact that I am a binge creator. I may go months without making a single freebie, and then all of a sudden I'm pumping them out about once a day, and when I am in a binge, being unable to know what's sitting in your queue from me tends to have me sitting here pulling my hair out and wondering which item i've uploaded and which I have not... which has led to me uploading less frequently here, and simply posting on sites elsewhere or outright sending people to the daz freepozitory links or my site itself to check for updated content.

What I'm talking about is this...

We upload an item. Okay, we get said notice that it's been recieved and we'll be e-mailed when it's approved yada yada. That's cool. But let's say I'm doing a bunch of different pose sets (like I have been lately), some are for M3, some for D3, some for V3, A3. Now I go to my freebies, and there's a nice little link at the top. "Your Queue."

Click that and get the following :

Items currently in testing :

1. {Item Name #1}
2. {Item Name #2)
3. {Item Name #3}

That ALONE... would help make the queue and approval method here a hundred percent more bearable on some of us who have screws loose and tended to keep track of what we were putting up in the past as much by 'just added this to my site, now get it up in freestuff' as we do with 'check freestuff..right .last item i put up was...'

Only now, I can't DO that. I can't go to my freestuff and go 'last item i put up was...' cause more often than not I've got something in queue and i'm afraid to upload at ALL for sake of sending a duplicate through! LOL

Sorry for the length of my post. I'm just trying to pose a potential idea that might.. maybe... help both the content providers as well as the two of you who are doing all the freebie approval. :)

~ Seliah