this isnt rlly a new thing but ive been seeing ppl talking abt it again SO if anyone is asking "why isnt my pattern being accepted???", try searching to see if that pattern already exists (obv there r other reasons it might not get accepted, this just tends 2b the most common)
in the voting ive seen a lot of duplicates (for example pride flags and checkers, there r tons of patterns for them already) as well as rlly simple designs (liek one or two colors or just stripes)
just wanted to make a quick post bc there r over 8k pending patterns n most ppl dont search 2 see if their pattern already exists b4 submitting (ive been guilty of this too!)