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Changes to operation of Random Thread

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  • #32
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    Traffic volumes to the photography forum have fallen precipitously over the last 5 years or so. More subfora would just serve to fragment it further I think.


    What are the percentage drops do you know?


  • #33
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Whammy! wrote: »



    It would be safe to assume that most of the users that post the noise have no intention of developing their comments into anything more than chit chat.

    So you regarded the congratulations and good wishes you got on the Random Thread on the birth of your baby as no more than mere noise?


  • #34
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,231 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    I've nothing against this but don't like the Idea of opening a new thread just to say 'nice photo' or some small comment.
    How about having 1 continuous thread for people to comment and ask small questions.
    But of you want C&C then open your own separate thread.


  • #35
    Whammy!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Whammy!


    keps wrote: »
    So you regarded the congratulations and good wishes you got on the Random Thread on the birth of your baby as no more than mere noise?

    I find your post a good example of 'noise', and to be honest a little creepy.
    Keps, you're not contributing anything, nor are you suggesting ways to improve things.


  • #36
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Whammy! wrote: »
    I find your post a good example of 'noise', and to be honest a little creepy.
    Keps, you're not contributing anything, nor are you suggesting ways to improve things.



    As I said, I agree with most of what you said in your post above.


    I just find the use of the word 'noise' to describe a post which makes a brief comment or asks a simple question to be unfair.


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  • #37
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    And the position is that we were presented with a 'Fait Accompli'.

    There was no consultation with forum users!


    The only request for suggestions came after 2 days of me querying the wisdom of the new set-up.


  • #38
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Anyway - I seem to have made enough enemies here to last a lifetime- so farewell.


  • #39
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,725 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    keps wrote: »
    What are the percentage drops do you know?

    Don't have them handy, I'm subsisting on my phone for the last few days, but I've posted them before into the random and off-topic thread


  • #40
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,562 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I fully expect that the majority of C&C threads will be along the lines of
    "Lovely shot, was that in taken in Howthville town?"
    "No".
    /End Thread.
    However, every now and then a thread will emerge that will spark robust, heated debate and most importantly teaches us all something about photography.
    my natural reaction to a shot i like is a thumbs up (no C&C required), but the ones i'd like to get my teeth into (after they've set my teeth on edge) are ones i don't like - and i'd naturally avoid singling a shot like this out to tear into it. and i suspect this is the issue most photos would have in attracting such threads. so that's the main speed bump being faced here - not sure how you'd force the photo over that hill into a thread without it *looking* forced...


  • #41
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,562 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    though i do like the 'edit my photo' thread; probably because i hate processing so it's a case of 'i love work, it fascinates me, i could watch it for hours'.


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  • #42
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,725 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    keps wrote: »
    What are the percentage drops do you know?

    Here's the spreadsheet and graph from march (if it still works)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=89342192&postcount=1104


  • #43
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,562 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    keps wrote: »
    Anyway - I seem to have made enough enemies here to last a lifetime- so farewell.
    i hope this doesn't mean you're leaving the photography forum?


  • #44
    CabanSail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,047 ✭✭✭CabanSail


    I sent a PM to keps.

    He said he's walking away from the keyboard for a while and hoping to pick up the camera a bit more.


  • #45
    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    From 2009
    keps wrote: »
    Just interesting to note - that the out of focus flowers and the glasses in front of the bread-bin have got between them 5 votes- while my attempts between them have a eurovision type 'nul points'.

    Obviously my photographic and creative talents are so short of what is required on this elite forum that there is little point in hanging around.

    I will go somewhere where the standards are not so exacting(and the fellow members are a bit fairer).
    keps

    keps will be back


  • #46
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    keps wrote: »
    Anyway - I seem to have made enough enemies here to last a lifetime- so farewell.

    Don't be silly Keps, no ememies made here at all. You are just expressing your opinion :)

    Give us more birdies :)


  • #47
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    pixbyjohn wrote: »
    From 2009



    keps will be back


    I am just amazed by the fact that a fellow poster has had the time and inclination to go back SIX years to track down a post of mine to use against me-


    And that a mod would then 'thank' it


    Just to let you know pixbyjohn - keps will not be back.


  • #48
    CabanSail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,047 ✭✭✭CabanSail


    keps wrote: »
    I am just amazed by the fact that a fellow poster has had the time and inclination to go back SIX years to track down a post of mine to use against me-


    And that a mod would then 'thank' it


    Just to let you know pixbyjohn - keps will not be back.


    I did not read that as being used against you. Quite the opposite actually. I saw it that you had left here before and returned and we hope you will come back again.


  • #49
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Cheers Cabansail - obviously paranoia is one of my strong suits!


  • #50
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,664 ✭✭✭secman


    keps wrote: »
    Cheers Cabansail - obviously paranoia is one of my strong suits!

    CHILLAX keps , I'm sure , that most folks around here like me enjoy your bird shots and just maybe they don't get as much appreciated as they should because so many of them are so well shot. Damn hard to get too, I know only so well. Keep them coming Keps


  • #51
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    secman wrote: »
    CHILLAX keps , I'm sure , that most folks around here like me enjoy your bird shots and just maybe they don't get as much appreciated as they should because so many of them are so well shot. Damn hard to get too, I know only so well. Keep them coming Keps

    Cheers - bird photo posted;)


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  • #52
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,725 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    keps wrote: »
    I am just amazed by the fact that a fellow poster has had the time and inclination to go back SIX years to track down a post of mine to use against me-

    Yes imagine that. Imagine a poster has the time and inclination to go back years or months to track down a specific post to use against someone else. Just imagine :rolleyes:


  • #53
    Whammy!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Whammy!


    Wait wait wait. Am I missing something here?
    Isn't this thread about how to improve the site?
    Instead we are actually entertaining a self confessed paranoid individual, who decided he wants his toys back after throwing them out of the pram.

    Why are we not focusing on the suggestions posted by a few of the members here, rather than focus on someone throwing a tantrum?


  • #54
    CabanSail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,047 ✭✭✭CabanSail


    The changes to the Random Thread have been in place a few weeks now. Would like to hear back on those who use that thread of their take on the modifications. You can reply here or send Mods a PM if you wish.

    To me the thread seems as popular as ever and now it is just images. I hear that a lot of people who don't post here, or on boards at all, do look there to see what we post. I think they may welcome the images being more concentrated. Was hoping there would be some discussion on images sparked off outside the thread but so far that has not happened. Very few posters are appending the "C&C Welcome" which could be old habits or they just want to post pics without discussion. One suggestion is that the system should be an "Opt Out" instead of an "Opt In" as it is now. This would require a "No C&C please" tag added instead.


  • #55
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,562 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i'd be on for that; plus, it'd be interesting to see a 'how it came off the camera' vs 'how it was after processing' (in the wake of the 'edit my photo' thread); only thing allowed for the 'off the camera' shot is colour temperature adjustment.

    the main issue i would consistently have with photos posted here (apart from ones which simply don't interest me) is photos where haloing is obvious; if you can see the puppet's strings, it ruins the illusion. but that's not a criticism i will pick on a single photo to highlight.


  • #56
    CabanSail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,047 ✭✭✭CabanSail


    Whammy! wrote: »
    Wait wait wait. Am I missing something here?
    Isn't this thread about how to improve the site?
    Instead we are actually entertaining a self confessed paranoid individual, who decided he wants his toys back after throwing them out of the pram.

    Why are we not focusing on the suggestions posted by a few of the members here, rather than focus on someone throwing a tantrum?

    To be fair to that poster, you may not like the way he has been saying things but I admire that he has expressed his views. I value his feedback. He is also quite good at admitting his faults and seems to be recognising when to walk away from the keyboard.


  • #57
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,562 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    keps does produce a damn good photo.


  • #58
    mystic86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭mystic86


    Just reading through this thread there yesterday for the first time, I feel bad that Keps felt he had to walk away from Boards :(

    I posted a pic there last night in the random thread and, despite having read this thread before it, I still forgot to put C&C welcome! Habits die hard

    I think any of the times I've been glancing over other photos in the thread and saw C&C welcome I never had the urge to pay attention to it, it just seems a lot of effort to make a few words of a comment.. or maybe that's the point, maybe ye don't want such short comments on photos?

    I think 1 thread for commenting on photos, like the one 'edit my photo' might be the best solution...?

    Anyway, I've edited my post from last night now to say C&C welcome, not expecting any bites though :p


  • #59
    Tiriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭Tiriel


    It might be worth making it default open to C&C as I agree, I keep forgetting to add the few letters!


  • #60
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    mystic86 wrote: »
    .. or maybe that's the point, maybe ye don't want such short comments on photos?
    Nail on the head.

    mystic86 wrote: »
    I think 1 thread for commenting on photos, like the one 'edit my photo' might be the best solution...?
    CabinSail did suggest this during discussions on what we could do but I (mistakenly) thought that there would be a rush of commenting threads and that rush would make a single thread too confusing to follow. Perhaps due to the slow take-up of the the ability to comment we might rethink the single thread idea again.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #61
    superflyninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭superflyninja


    Cork_girl wrote: »
    It might be worth making it default open to C&C as I agree, I keep forgetting to add the few letters!
    Id agree with this. I know me and I know I wont remember to do that when I eventually get around to taking a few photos again.
    Wonder why the tumbleweeds are gathering around here more and more?
    Its a real pity as it was a decent place to get CC but that seems to have all but vanished.


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