The Gallery Moderators are volunteers, C_K.  They do what they do out of love for this Community, based on many years of skinning experience and standards which are both objective and subjective.

They will, if contacted by pm explain why a 'low' rating was given to a particular wallpaper.

To ask for an "automatic" explanation is asking the Moderator to devote much more of his/her time to this and I haven't heard of other sites doing that for submissions. I don't believe that explanation needs to be "automatic" in every case.

While that is true of the majority of accepted submissions, it's not true of all.

It's not unreasonable to request that the submitter pm the Moderator when appropriate, if just to lessen the load.

To be sure however, there are Moderators who do what you suggest for 99% of their rejection notices. In fact, I don't know any Gallery mod who doesn't.

Maybe you need to check your 'spam folder' for a reply you might have missed?

More than one Moderator views the submissions. If a submission is sent to your personal Gallery as opposed to one of the others, 99-100% of the time a reason is given.

On the brighter side, if your work went to your Personal Gallery, you're entitled to an award.

You can obtain it here: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/objectdock/12465 

You'll have to contact Po' Smedley regarding the secret handshake.

Alternatively, you could turn it into a learning experience and post it under OS Customization>Wallpapers and request suggestions on "how to improve the Wallpaper". Well established folks have done that and have received good, constructive criticism. Don't worry about the "that sucks" type comment. The folks here will take care of them.

Be prepared for honest criticism, though. Invite it. It's the best way to improve.

Uploads sent to a user's Personal Page do not normally receive an email.  Rejected uploads for whatever reason do have an email sent with an explanation of why.

Anytime I have been contacted I have always responded so 'generally' moderators do respond.

 Not trying to cause controversy, just clarifying Doc's statement that explanation is offered for PPO when in fact it is not. We all know that any post concerning ratings almost immediately heads "South" because of all of our sensitivity towards our own perception of our creations!

Not according to your quote:

"More than one Moderator views the submissions. If a submission is sent to your personal Gallery as opposed to one of the others, 99-100% of the time a reason is given."

Ok, it was a simple misunderstanding.

Let me clarify so everyone is on the same page.

1. Items sent to personal page due to quality, moderation, etc. are not e-mailed a reason why.  
2. If something is rejected due to copyright, file problem, etc., they are sent an e-mail.  Often times these end up in spam folders so check there first.

We have a lot of submissions come through and it's not really an option to send feedback to each one.  As was mentioned above, you can PM or e-mail any gallery moderator and they will be glad to help.  

Along with the upload guidelines, here is a tips article for moderation.

For wallpapers, here my general advice:

Push-button walls will almost always go to personal pages.  Push-button walls are the ones made with applications that you push a few buttons and poof, you have a wallpaper.  We have every shape and color in the gallery already, there's nothing unique about them anymore.

Photographs.  I personally enjoy photographs as wallpapers, but to be accepted they have to be interesting and sharp.  Blurred photos will not make it, and images of your cat or girlfriend will not make it.  At least into the galleries.

well, that sucks.

I'd like a real world perspective to this post, they seem to happen on occasion. So, about how many wallpapers do you all receive each month and what is the reject rate for those submitted. I also remembering someone mention that the wallpapers section is the most difficult to get submissions through because of the volume, is that still the case.

seem to miising a spell chucker?

I remeber getting an email about one of mine in the gallery. I was told how damn near everyone looked at it and the email I got was them asking what the hell it was supposed to be. lmao.

I would love to be a mod but I think after all these years I wouldn't be as kind as I might have been when I first started. I only comment when something really jumps out at me. I try to restarin from 'Nice' or 'Great work' comments. If I ever started commenting what I really thought on a lot of stuff, I probably wouldn't be very welcome here. I think I inadvertantly chased off someone I considered a freind a while back when they asked for an honest critique.

So that's what happened to Skinhit... 

You've given me 'good' critiques. Your advice is more objective. I can deal with that. Comments like 'This sucks' or 'You can do better' are what drive me nutz.

Handy piece of knowledge, that.  

 Let me just say, I for one HATE the upload process. If My work sucks so bad that you think its not worthy for me to share for FREE with the community, then dont put it on my personal page only, and with a 1 or 2 star rating!!!! If I only wanted to put it on my personal page , I would have a Youtube video with a link to my media fire page. Why the hell would I upload something here if its only going to be on my personal page? If thats the case than just reject it all together? If my "art" sucks to the moderator who determines if I kissed his rear enough to have my work uploaded in the PUBLIC gallery, the very LEAST he or she could do is tell me why it is not good enough to be posted on the public wall. ESPECIALLY SINCE I PAY TO BE HERE!!!! I could easily create new user names every week and get all I want for free. 

I apologize if I sound so upset. But when I get rejected for a public gallery, I would at least like to know why. (Especially since I am a Customer) That way I know what I need to do to make my "Art" more acceptable to the mods. As it is now, I have no freekin clue who is determining if my "Art" is good enough to share on a public board, so that I can PM him/her to question what I can do to make it more expectable. I understand that there are tons of uploads that have to be reviewed, but it wouldnt take a half second or so to tell the uploader why their art sucks too bad to be shared with the general public.