Graphics. I can sympathize with both sides here, but I wouldn't personally withhold publication just on this point.
Collections, clones, minimum novelty. The threshold for publication has never been stated explicitly as far as I know, but I think all editors have some sense that this is necessary. To the games in question, I agree that they don't meet my threshold, and that's why I haven't reviewed the games very closely.
The perennial issue of too few (active, reviewing) editors. I don't know about the other editors currently listed as active and self-described as reviewing, but I've not been reviewing submissions for months, being much busier in real life, until last month when I went through a handful. To add to Fergus's point: the queue is sorted by recent activity, but there are games toward the back that I've already reviewed and not been interested in publishing, so I kind of have to pick a point in time that I think is where to start. I don't recall if I saw the games in question, but if I had I probably would've skipped them for that reason. I recognize that the queue has gotten very long, but I just can't commit enough time to fixing that. I'm not sure how active the other editors have been, or what their criteria for review and/or publication may be (those are not well-centralized or even discussed at length).
I see mostly three issues here.
Graphics. I can sympathize with both sides here, but I wouldn't personally withhold publication just on this point.
Collections, clones, minimum novelty. The threshold for publication has never been stated explicitly as far as I know, but I think all editors have some sense that this is necessary. To the games in question, I agree that they don't meet my threshold, and that's why I haven't reviewed the games very closely.
The perennial issue of too few (active, reviewing) editors. I don't know about the other editors currently listed as active and self-described as reviewing, but I've not been reviewing submissions for months, being much busier in real life, until last month when I went through a handful. To add to Fergus's point: the queue is sorted by recent activity, but there are games toward the back that I've already reviewed and not been interested in publishing, so I kind of have to pick a point in time that I think is where to start. I don't recall if I saw the games in question, but if I had I probably would've skipped them for that reason. I recognize that the queue has gotten very long, but I just can't commit enough time to fixing that. I'm not sure how active the other editors have been, or what their criteria for review and/or publication may be (those are not well-centralized or even discussed at length).