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Hey all. I bought a nice scanner last year as I really enjoy scanning in my collection as an evening activity. I've noticed that there is a wide variety of scan quality on the site, some of which get flagged but others that are still not great but certainly pass. I am just curious if there is an etiquette that I should follow when it comes to deciding when to replace images. I feel as if my scanner does a nicer job than many but I also don't want to just overwrite people's scans if it is rude or outside of what the standards should be.

An example below is one where I replaced the first 9 cards of this 2022 Bowman - Bowman Scouts' Top 100 set. Many of the existing scans have the kind of raywave look where the refractor part is, that doesn't look great in my opinion (See many of the scans after the first 9). 

https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/308325

I just wanted to check to see if any long time users/admin would have any feedback on whether it is fine to replace even when the scans aren't egregious like the ones in my example. Thanks!

"raywave" is known as "moire" pattern.  As long as it's better, replace it.

Thanks for the added knowledge and the response. It's helpful to hear some feedback and I'll plan to get some of these updated over time. A lot of the ones I will most likely replace likely have that moire pattern. Thanks again!

I'm in favor of someone uploading better images even if they replace my own. There are also still lots of images from before the zoom feature was enabled that could stand to be upgraded to take advantage of it. Thank you for any work you do to improve images here as that often helps members see details that can make it easier to tell certain versions apart 

Anything 250x350 (where the zoom feature can't trigger) or smaller and stretched to fit the 250x350 minimum is a great candidate to be replaced so we have larger clearer images. If zoom works fine and nothing's blurry on either image, they can be left alone.