by Sakura Admin » Tue Jun 07, 2022 3:37 am
While compiling your donations, please ensure they meet the following guidelines! Any donations that don't may be rejected by an admin/staff member until the issue(s) is/are resolved so not only will you wait longer to receive your reward but the longer it'll be until a deck maker can claim it.
Please note that the donation rewards you receive have changed and now vary based on the deck type you're donating! In addition, we are implementing a new donation method that will be REQUIRED in the hopes that it'll make processing and checking donations easier and quicker for us to go through.
NEW DONATION METHOD ✨
We will now be requiring all players to donate their decks via
Google Drive! In order to use this site, you must have a Google/Gmail account so please make one if you haven't already. It's quick and simple to do so but if you need help, please let us know!
Our goal by using this site specifically—and only this site for accepting donation downloads from—is to make use of their folder features. In your drive, you would create a folder for each donation, upload the images for that deck to it, then link us to the specific folder in your donation form. This way the staff can easily view the donation just by opening the link so they won't have to download and unzip it (which takes more time—and space—than you might think)! As for deck makers, they could then download the folder itself from your drive which would download as a zip like traditional donations or work directly from it.
Another pro of using GDrive for donations is that the chances of the donation being deleted without your permission (like how some upload sites delete files after a certain period) is usually lower so there's less likelihood of you/us losing a donation before it can be made! You can also add or remove images from a donation much easier whereas before you would've had to re-upload the entire donation zip. For further details and a step-by-step guide, please read our
tutorial!
GENERAL GUIDELINES ✨
- Only decks from anime, manga, light novel, or game series of Japanese source/origin can be donated! Please refer to the About Sakura page for a more in-depth explanation on what is/isn't allowed.
- Check the Upcoming List as well as all of the tabs on the Donation Claims Spreadsheet to make sure what you want to claim isn't already claimed, donated, or made!
- High quality images and images in colour are always preferred but if you absolutely cannot find enough images for a deck that fall under those requirements then include as many as you can! Lower quality and/or B&W images in the case of manga decks are allowed as a last resort/if it's your only option.
- Try to avoid images that have large logos or lots of text that would be hard to crop/edit out, as well as images that are too close up on a character's face. Given our card template, images that are farther away or in vertical orientation (if a close up) will usually work—and look—better!
- If all you can find are images that don't meet any of the above requirements in terms of quality then make note of that when claiming/donating just to give us a heads up! You can also pre-collect images in advance and ask an admin/deck maker if they think it'll be feasible to turn into a deck and then officially claim/donate it afterwards, if they give it the OK.
- We encourage including images from all media/adaptation types if a series offers them but ultimately it is up to the donator's discretion to only include one type or not. Similarly, deck makers may also choose to focus on one type/art style more than the other for aesthetic purposes!
- When creating/uploading your donation folder(s) to your GDrive account, make sure they are titled: Series Name - Deck Name; depending on the deck type, what you replace "Deck Name" with will vary!
- Character Decks: the deck name will be the character's name in [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME] format (ie. "Hokuto Hidaka", not "Hidaka Hokuto").
- Puzzle & Special Decks: the deck name will simply be what you want to name the deck, with proper capitalization (symbols are allowed for the deck info. but will not be included on the cards themselves as the font won't allow it); the name should describe what the deck is of!
- If you are donating a puzzle deck, you DO NOT have to upload it to GDrive! You can also use a regular image uploading site like Imgur, ImgBB, or another site of your choice since it's just a single image, rather than many like a character or special deck would require.
- If you are donating a deck on behalf of another player or deck maker, you are still REQUIRED to upload the full donation file(s) when submitting them for rewards in your thread!
- This is so a download is always available in case the original deck maker leaves before making it, or is unable to for whatever reason so another deck maker can make it instead.
- We also do not want anyone to use "[name] is making this" as a way to side-step the rules and be able to send the images for a donation later/past the original month allowed to regularly donate a deck, while everyone else makes sure to turn their donations in on time!
While compiling your donations, please ensure they meet the following guidelines! Any donations that don't may be rejected by an admin/staff member until the issue(s) is/are resolved so not only will you wait longer to receive your reward but the longer it'll be until a deck maker can claim it.
Please note that the donation rewards you receive have changed and now vary based on the deck type you're donating! In addition, we are implementing a new donation method that will be REQUIRED in the hopes that it'll make processing and checking donations easier and quicker for us to go through.
[size=150][b]NEW DONATION METHOD ✨[/b][/size]
We will now be requiring all players to donate their decks via [url=https://drive.google.com/]Google Drive[/url]! In order to use this site, you must have a Google/Gmail account so please make one if you haven't already. It's quick and simple to do so but if you need help, please let us know!
Our goal by using this site specifically—and only this site for accepting donation downloads from—is to make use of their folder features. In your drive, you would create a folder for each donation, upload the images for that deck to it, then link us to the specific folder in your donation form. This way the staff can easily view the donation just by opening the link so they won't have to download and unzip it (which takes more time—and space—than you might think)! As for deck makers, they could then download the folder itself from your drive which would download as a zip like traditional donations or work directly from it.
Another pro of using GDrive for donations is that the chances of the donation being deleted without your permission (like how some upload sites delete files after a certain period) is usually lower so there's less likelihood of you/us losing a donation before it can be made! You can also add or remove images from a donation much easier whereas before you would've had to re-upload the entire donation zip. For further details and a step-by-step guide, please read our [url=http://www.sakura.milkbaeri.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6]tutorial[/url]!
[size=150][b]GENERAL GUIDELINES ✨[/b][/size]
[list][*]Only decks from anime, manga, light novel, or game series of Japanese source/origin can be donated! Please refer to the [url=http://www.sakura.milkbaeri.net/guide.php?p=about]About Sakura[/url] page for a more in-depth explanation on what is/isn't allowed.
[*]Check the [url=http://www.sakura.milkbaeri.net/cards.php?view=upcoming]Upcoming List[/url] as well as all of the tabs on the [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v4o-dkmQJK0up5tY1-m1auy2Kml3Pltl-p32TsZT1x8/edit?usp=sharing]Donation Claims Spreadsheet[/url] to make sure what you want to claim isn't already claimed, donated, or made!
[*]High quality images and images in colour are always preferred but if you absolutely cannot find enough images for a deck that fall under those requirements then include as many as you can! Lower quality and/or B&W images in the case of manga decks are allowed as a last resort/if it's your only option.
[*]Try to avoid images that have large logos or lots of text that would be hard to crop/edit out, as well as images that are too close up on a character's face. Given our card template, images that are farther away or in vertical orientation (if a close up) will usually work—and look—better!
[list][*]If all you can find are images that don't meet any of the above requirements in terms of quality then make note of that when claiming/donating just to give us a heads up! You can also pre-collect images in advance and ask an admin/deck maker if they think it'll be feasible to turn into a deck and then officially claim/donate it afterwards, if they give it the OK.[/list]
[*]We encourage including images from all media/adaptation types if a series offers them but ultimately it is up to the donator's discretion to only include one type or not. Similarly, deck makers may also choose to focus on one type/art style more than the other for aesthetic purposes!
[*]When creating/uploading your donation folder(s) to your GDrive account, make sure they are titled: [u]Series Name - Deck Name[/u]; depending on the deck type, what you replace "Deck Name" with will vary!
[list][*][b]Character Decks:[/b] the deck name will be the character's name in [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME] format (ie. "Hokuto Hidaka", not "Hidaka Hokuto").
[*][b]Puzzle & Special Decks:[/b] the deck name will simply be what you want to name the deck, with proper capitalization (symbols are allowed for the deck info. but will not be included on the cards themselves as the font won't allow it); the name should describe what the deck is of!
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[*]If you are donating a puzzle deck, you DO NOT have to upload it to GDrive! You can also use a regular image uploading site like Imgur, ImgBB, or another site of your choice since it's just a single image, rather than many like a character or special deck would require.
[*]If you are donating a deck on behalf of another player or deck maker, you are still [b][u]REQUIRED[/u] to upload the full donation file(s)[/b] when submitting them for rewards in your thread!
[list][*]This is so a download is always available in case the original deck maker leaves before making it, or is unable to for whatever reason so another deck maker can make it instead.
[*]We also do not want anyone to use "[name] is making this" as a way to side-step the rules and be able to send the images for a donation later/past the original month allowed to regularly donate a deck, while everyone else makes sure to turn their donations in on time![/list][/list]