About This GroupThe aim of this group is to flag or vote down unsuitable artist images in targeted artist pages through collective and coordinated group-member votes. All group members are empowered to connect "targets" to this group provided they meet certain criteria. This is an objective exercise aimed only at artist images that:
• are obviously too small (ie less than 252px wide) for the new artist image layout, thus requiring these images to be upsampled and blurred in the process;
• are badly pixelated due to jpeg recompression artifacts, or simply because they were sourced from lousy sources;
• have poor contrast or color, or are badly colorcast;
• are not suitably composed such that they end up badly cropped in users' library pages (which have a fixed 126x100 pixel ratio);
• possibly, though not always, are undeservedly stuck in the top spot because of the 70 bonus votes they were given, but don't have sufficient current listeners who are interested enough to vote these images down.
What We Don't DoWe're not about playing favorites between artist images that do not meet the above criteria. For that, you're on your own. And while it may be all about the music on the rest of this site, music takes a backseat here.
In this group, It's All About The Image™.
By joining this group, you hereby agree to abide by the group's stated objectives. You have been warned.
...but before that, some silly but vitally important trivia:
About This Group's Official Fruit
It's the ugli, naturally.
An ugli fruit (pronounced as ugly) is a Jamaican tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo according to some sources) and a tangerine. Its species is Citrus reticulata x Citrus paradisi. (Are you impressed yet?)
It was discovered growing wild in Jamaica where it is mainly grown today. Its name derives from the unsightly appearance of its rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow skin, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside. The light green surface blemishes turn orange when the fruit is at its peak ripeness. An ugli fruit is slightly smaller than a grapefruit and has fewer seeds. The flesh is very juicy and tends towards the sweet side of the tangerine rather than the bitter side of its grapefruit lineage, with a fragrant skin. The fruit is seasonal from December to April. It is distributed in the USA and Europe between November and April, and is on occasion available from July to September.
Americans pronounce the name /ˈʌgli/ "ugly", but in Jamaica it's pronounced /ˈhuːɡli/ HOO-glee.
The fruit is also described as an exotic tangelo. Ugli fruit are sold under two different brand names: Uniq Fruit which is a registered trademark of Brooks Tropicals, LLC. and UGLI which is a registered trademark of Cabel Hall Citrus Ltd.
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