Thoughts on Improving the Photography Forums

[Tony]

How about an extra forum where a photothread can be promoted to (moved) once they have reached a certain number of comments (by forumers other than the OP)? It can be drawn from the two My City and the General forums. The condition is that the thread cannot be one of those bump add a few turds kind of thread, it needs to be genuinely good quality.

That way people might be encouraged / have incentive to actually post quality threads.

[glowrock]

Originally Posted by Tony

How about an extra forum where a photothread can be promoted to (moved) once they have reached a certain number of comments (by forumers other than the OP)? It can be drawn from the two My City and the General forums. The condition is that the thread cannot be one of those bump add a few turds kind of thread, it needs to be genuinely good quality.

That way people might be encouraged / have incentive to actually post quality threads.

I kind of like that idea, Tony. Not too shabby!

Aaron (Glowrock)

[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Tony

How about an extra forum where a photothread can be promoted to (moved) once they have reached a certain number of comments (by forumers other than the OP)? It can be drawn from the two My City and the General forums. The condition is that the thread cannot be one of those bump add a few turds kind of thread, it needs to be genuinely good quality.

That way people might be encouraged / have incentive to actually post quality threads.

didn't this get floated a few years ago?

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[Tony]

Originally Posted by LSyd

didn't this get floated a few years ago?

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It did? Damn... I don't remember that at all.

Maybe Dylan knows a way of doing some thread rating thing in vBulletin.

[flar]

^^thread rating, that's what I was thinking. Lots of forums use that.

[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Tony

It did? Damn... I don't remember that at all.

Maybe Dylan knows a way of doing some thread rating thing in vBulletin.

i think that's why we have thread archive

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[Tony]

Originally Posted by LSyd

i think that's why we have thread archive

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neah, I don't think the Archive is really for that. It's just a depository for threads that have become too large and unwieldy to go through.

[Kingofthehill]

What's with the forumer "IMBY" bumping 20 3-5 year old threads at a time in the My City Photos section? Somebody needs to pull his coat.

[glowrock]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

What's with the forumer "IMBY" bumping 20 3-5 year old threads at a time in the My City Photos section? Somebody needs to pull his coat.

Agreed. Not cool, and it will be dealt with.

Aaron (Glowrock)

[Chef]

Originally Posted by glowrock

Agreed. Not cool, and it will be dealt with.

Aaron (Glowrock)

He just bumped 16 old theads to the top of the A-M section. I think it is cool when the occasional old thread returns but that is obnoxious. If he isn't stopped he is going to bury all the current ones.

[Sawtooth]

I am in agreement with the rest of you about old threads being bumped and also about IMBY. He must get drunk and search out random old threads to bump. I notice a lot of newer threads in A-M have been buried in the 2nd page mainly because of him and I can attest that putting a photo thread together takes a lot of work and time.

There should be another sub-forum within the photography area for older threads and a place for people to post their "once more" and constantly updated threads.

[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

What's with the forumer "IMBY" bumping 20 3-5 year old threads at a time in the My City Photos section? Somebody needs to pull his coat.

i missed this madness; what was he bumping?

remember on VE day last year when a ukranian forumer bumped every german thread with a picture of the soviet flag on the reichstag? that was annoying.

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[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

What's with the forumer "IMBY" bumping 20 3-5 year old threads at a time in the My City Photos section? Somebody needs to pull his coat.

i see it now...and it looks like he's been doing it for the past month or so.

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[M II A II R II K]

As for this forum have less stickies in it!

[Okayyou]

There should be another sub-forum within the photography area for older threads and a place for people to post their "once more" and constantly updated threads.

I think this is a great idea and would solve the issue of the constantly updated threads clogging the forum and the old threads being brought back to life.

Instead of A-M and N-Z, divide the photo forum into threads newer than 1 or 2 weeks and threads older than 1 or 2 weeks. Is it possible to achieve this with the current BBC code?

As for the stickies, a lot of them could go:

• The photo contest voting ended a month ago and that thread is still up.
  
• General Chat is fine
  
• Is it even worth having this thread? It seems that all the suggestions have been ignored so far.
  
• Getting to know your SSP photogs - last interview was Oct 6th.
  
• Your rights as a photographer - I think this can be killed. Maybe others find it useful.
  
• Post your gear thread - ok
  
• Another photo contest sticky?
  
• Past contest winners - last updated sep 21st. If it's not going to be updated unsticky it and let it die.

A 'How to make a photothread' sticky could be useful. I see lots of new users posting pics with links stored on their hard drives, one link to a flickr set, etc. Even experienced users have issues finding tools to link to multiple photos etc. BTW this site is a huge time saver:

http://includr.vispillo.org/#

[glowrock]

Originally Posted by Okayyou

I think this is a great idea and would solve the issue of the constantly updated threads clogging the forum and the old threads being brought back to life.

Instead of A-M and N-Z, divide the photo forum into threads newer than 1 or 2 weeks and threads older than 1 or 2 weeks. Is it possible to achieve this with the current BBC code?

As for the stickies, a lot of them could go:

• The photo contest voting ended a month ago and that thread is still up.
  
• General Chat is fine
  
• Is it even worth having this thread? It seems that all the suggestions have been ignored so far.
  
• Getting to know your SSP photogs - last interview was Oct 6th.
  
• Your rights as a photographer - I think this can be killed. Maybe others find it useful.
  
• Post your gear thread - ok
  
• Another photo contest sticky?
  
• Past contest winners - last updated sep 21st. If it's not going to be updated unsticky it and let it die.

A 'How to make a photothread' sticky could be useful. I see lots of new users posting pics with links stored on their hard drives, one link to a flickr set, etc. Even experienced users have issues finding tools to link to multiple photos etc. BTW this site is a huge time saver:

http://includr.vispillo.org/#

Sorry about a few of those...Been bad on the updating of the photothreads lately... That will change, though.

Aaron (Glowrock)

edit: If I actually knew how to make some of those changes, Okayyou, I'd do them. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to code in vbulletin. Perhaps someone can assist in making some of those changes?

[LSyd]

it's kind of hard to believe a "photothread" that's just a link has this many replies

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[Tony]

Originally Posted by LSyd

it's kind of hard to believe a "photothread" that's just a link has this many replies

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Yeah, I was wondering that myself.. I'm not sure if there is a rule that a photothread must actually contain photos and not merely a link to someone's Flickr page...

[Okayyou]

Originally Posted by Tony

Yeah, I was wondering that myself.. I'm not sure if there is a rule that a photothread must actually contain photos and not merely a link to someone's Flickr page...

The guy has done it several times before. I thought he maybe didn't know how so I commented on one of his threads telling him people usually make photothreads and supplied instructions of how to do so. Guess he is just lazy. I think it degrades the forum's integrity if people just start posting links.

[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Okayyou

The guy has done it several times before. I thought he maybe didn't know how so I commented on one of his threads telling him people usually make photothreads and supplied instructions of how to do so. Guess he is just lazy. I think it degrades the forum's integrity if people just start posting links.

i clicked his link; the photos look good and interesting, but i'm too lazy to go through all of those on flickr...which is why photothreads are awesome.

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