Picture flood in the forum

[EJohnE]

Originally Posted by Rolo
Please don't infer that I'm suggesting people don't say thank you. My point is clear; I'm suggesting that the thread doesn't get promoted when somebody acknowledges a comment.

Originally Posted by vdb

I completely agree with this point. This could be the only change needed for now.

I also agree. I look at the forum only every few days. and it is embarrassing to have an acknowledgement of comments pushed to the top of page 1.
Could the original thread be left where it was?

John.

[antistatic]

Originally Posted by KM-25

Earlier today but after I made my previous post, I was at a coffee shop writing the intro to a calendar I am putting out. Two very lovely young ladies were talking and we just naturally fell into dialogue. I carry a flip book of photos and text describing my project with me and after a bit, one of the girls wanted to see it.

Two hours later, I had two new friends and felt entirely invigorated by the whole experience. It was tactile, I have been missing that and frankly, I got more out of it as a person than any time I spend on the internet.

The internet is a great place to show and share your work, but after all this time with it, I personally just need a different space to engage with people. So I am trying to attain a balanced diet of the real natural world and the internet and it is working.

So in a way, I am being involved by posting this and I hope you can see that, it's the best I can do right now...:-)

Wait...a...minute.... So you are saying that chatting face to face with two lovely young ladies over coffee beats hanging around with us. Frankly I'm a bit hurt by this

[Alberti]

Originally Posted by dpattinson

Flickr groups have to deal with this all the time.

They generally end up with a daily, weekly or monthly posting limit. some also prevent consecutive images from the same contributor. Generally you can choose to remove an image and replace it with another so long as you don't exceed the limit.

I'm not sure how this would work in a threaded discussion forum like the one we use.

Personally, I wish we could have a Flickr group like interface where I can see thumbnails of submitted images, and page through the recent additions. It would be a much more efficient way to view the images than drilling into threads. Actual discussion of the images could be threaded, as it is in Flickr.

Absolutely support such an idea. It is boring to first have to open a post to see an image. The thumbnail would in a glance tell you if it is interesting. Now the post message often looks like a joke or coming from some kind of prankster trying to be funny.
albert

[elansprint72]

Pranksters and fun; on this forum? Shirley shome mishtake? Let's be having none of that, taking photographs is a serious business.

The idea of being able to look at a thumbnail appeals to me too. No idea if this is possible with the forum software but there does appear to be a sort of thumbnail gallery thing going on on the screen which I log in on.