Film / Instant film scans

In an effort to stick to the rules of not uploading "pro/celeb" photos I tend to stick with older, film/instant scans of photos. I have had 5 uploads rejected for "cropped", 4 for "bad quality" and 2 for "altered/photoshop". One of the photos named cropped was a photo that I took. It exists nowhere else on the internet, so I have no idea how a mod could have determined that the photo was cropped. One image that was rejected because of being "cropped" was a 6x6 medium format scan where it was only the top half of the model framed.

As far as the "bad quality" & "altered" photos; they were film scans. Its quite common for film scans to have dust or pits when the emulsion has flaked off. If I go ahead and clean up some of the dust specs to improve the "bad quality" then I get rejected for "altered" as two of my uploads were deemed that. When I brought up one of the images to a mod regarding the alleged bad quality, I was told, "when you zoom in it looks blurry". The scan was done at a high resolution, so yes, if you zoom in, what you see is film grain. It wasn't blurry at all.

My point is, seeing so many obvious pro images accepted while being nitpicked to death about alleged "bad quality" and "crops" seems a bit ridiculous. My uploads aren't perfect, and I have erroneously upped some pros here and there, but for the ones I've either shot myself or the ones I know for certain abide by the rules, I sure do get a bunch of rejects that don't make sense.

Big thanks to Omuh for listening to my gripes and clarifying some rejections. It seems though that whenever he accepts one that was rejected for no good reason, another mod puts it back in the reject pile again.

As said in private messages, the issue of scanned physical pictures is that the end result is pretty close to a screenshot : the picture is never perfectly scanned, there can be white bars on the side (due to the scan not being perfect) resulting in it being rejected as "cropped" / "altered" and there can be quality issues due to the move from physical to digital.

From the mods point of view, we just see a pic that can be lower quality and/or has bars on the sides or part of them, making it looks like either a screenshot or a cropped/altered pic. I don't think WBW rules really fit scanned pics for that reason as it's been made for digital content. Feel free to keep uploading those, but just keep in mind that they have a higher chance to be rejected for those reasons.
Edit : a couple tips if those are actually your own pictures that you are scanning (and they aren't taken from the internet) : try to remove any border that may be the result of the scan and just avoid pictures that are too degraded to be scanned with good enough quality. This should reduce the rejections.

Thanks for the response omuh and for being kind in our exchanges. I must however respectfully disagree with some of your points. Amateur nudes started and continue to in this day in the analog format. I've worked in a film lab off and on for the past 5 years working a Fuji Frontier SP3000 scanner (Ive seen it all). A good quality film scan looks 1000 times better than anything a phone can do. It just seems counterintuitive for the sites philosophy to be, analog scans get picked apart and summarily rejected cause we think digital is better looking. Both formats are digital! All the while, endless pros, video screen caps, AIs and the ocean of IG pics fly through with ease. A film/instant scan, even "low quality" is less likely to be a pro, so why judge it any harder is really my question.

Oh I'm not saying analog doesn't exist anymore or shouldn't exist, nor that it's lower quality than digital. I'm just saying that the site itself and its set of rules isn't really made to accomodate for that format.
It's not judged differently either since we usually don't know where the pics come from (the same as we don't know if the pics are yours or if they were taken from the internet generally). But scanning a picture has the tendency to create alterations that may result in it being rejected on WBW (like borders or artifacts). So again, feel free to upload those but just keep that in mind.
In the end, if the scan is made well enough that there's no borders showing and the quality is good enough, no reason it shouldn't be accepted (provided it respect the other rules obviously).

Thanks Omuh, I've reviewed some of the rejections and can on some of them the items you point out. Tiny edge, overscan etc. I think I need glasses.