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Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 1) Newbies by-passing the site and having their images hosted elsewhere, due to strict quality regulations and the often-criticised beginner queue situation. |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 2) Unhelpful individuals who constantly criticise new folks about their posts 'not belonging here' or who offer ridiculously obvious and/or sarcastic answers. This would lead to newbies being afraid to post, believing we're all pro's here. |
Quoting Dlowwa (Reply 1): I'll admit that when I first tried submitting photos and of course had them mostly rejected, I was too shy/embarrassed to participate much, and I can certainly see that as being a cause. |
Quoting Sketty222 (Reply 2): This is the same for me. As mentioned earlier I have yet to have an acceptence and feel that I dont really have the knowledge or expertise of others, therefore I cant really participate very much |
Quoting Dazed767 (Reply 6): Now you type on the keyboard too hard and you get banned |
Quoting INNflight (Reply 10): Then of course there's also the odd crew member who is simply stuck in a place like Kinshasa, and therefore spends his whole day on A.net ( Thierry....??? ) |
Quoting EZEIZA (Reply 11): IMO a big reason is the existance of the post-screening and pre-screening mega threads |
Quoting Boeingfreak (Reply 13): That kind of arrogant and ignorant behaviour made me leave. |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 1) Newbies by-passing the site and having their images hosted elsewhere, due to strict quality regulations and the often-criticised beginner queue situation |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 2) Unhelpful individuals who constantly criticise new folks about their posts 'not belonging here' or who offer ridiculously obvious and/or sarcastic answers. This would lead to newbies being afraid to post, believing we're all pro's here. |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 3) Last year's events surrounding copyrights, etc. and the many bugs encountered at the same time (some of which persist although I know things are difficult for the team at present). |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): 4) Queue length. I know it's come down dramatically these past few weeks but the repercussions of when the queue was ridiculously long (two weeks plus) may take a while to clear. |
Quoting Spurusho (Reply 4): I am quite new here, having registered only a couple of weeks ago, but I plan to stick around and spam the forum with my shots of aircraft that are totally inadequate to make it to the acceptance queue |
Quoting EZEIZA (Reply 11): IMO a big reason is the existance of the post-screening and pre-screening mega threads. Before you could post a picture on a separate thread and quickly get an opinion, now you have to use the mega threads, where mos of the times the picture gets unnoticed. Those short threads were also great to learn from, since you would see what was posted, and in two or three replies the proper in detail answer would be provided |
Quoting Danny (Reply 7): There is only few types of topics that fit this forum |
Quoting Cpd (Reply 5): For me, it's the poor weather (too hot, too dark or too much rain). I just haven't taken any photos for ages. |
Quoting ThierryD (Reply 15): Florian, I don't know the background of your story so I won't comment on it. All I can say is that all crewmembers do their "job" out of enthusiasm for the site and hence try to be helpful towards any contributor. That this goal is not always achieved is purely human. A private mail to the involved person(s) very often solves the issue pretty quickly. |
Quoting ThierryD (Reply 15): All this to say you and your pictures are more than welcome here! |
Quoting Conoramoia (Reply 24): but i have held back to commenting unless im absolutely sure because i feel less privilaged if you will!!! sometimes i feel as if the screeners do it on purpose to avoiad my photos! |
Quoting EZEIZA (Reply 11): IMO a big reason is the existance of the post-screening and pre-screening mega threads. |
Quoting Dvincent (Reply 14): sometime those individual rejection/prescreen threads did kickstart some interesting discussions. |
Quoting Clickhappy (Reply 28): Unfortunately I know many of you have heard this before, so all we can ask is that you show a little more patience |
Quoting Boeingfreak (Reply 13): Let me give you an example: In September 2008 I uploaded two pictures of two different Lufthansa Airbus A330 on a taxiway (on one the registration was perfectly visible, on the other it wasn't due to the angle), the one with the visible registration gets accepted, the other gets rejected for "double upload" with a rude comment ("if you do it again... ban etc. Don't try to fool us.."). So I decided to appeal, provide the EXIF files of both pictures (as a screenshot, uploaded to imageshack and included the URL in my appeal message), after a few days it gets rejected without any comment for the same reason. That kind of arrogant and ignorant behaviour made me leave |
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 18): Many have since left |
Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 20): You had someone like a retired 747 Captain being told he is wrong by some punk 13 year-old flight sim brat |
Quoting Silver1SWA (Reply 20): What I also find interesting is, some members that once offered helpful and insightful information about photogaphy a few years back have for some reason changed their approach and contribute little other than condescending remarks to anyone lacking equal knowledge and experience of a subject. Surely that drives people away |
Quoting Spencer (Reply 23): I've noticed the rate of post deletions have gone up, which is pretty annoying |
Quoting Koryo (Reply 29): there also seems to be no apparent concern for stolen pictures, I started a thread on a few Simpson 737 photos that were stolen and posted on Flickr and I have had no replies |
Quoting EZEIZA (Reply 11): IMO a big reason is the existance of the post-screening and pre-screening mega threads. Before you could post a picture on a separate thread and quickly get an opinion, now you have to use the mega threads, where mos of the times the picture gets unnoticed. Those short threads were also great to learn from, since you would see what was posted, and in two or three replies the proper in detail answer would be provided. |
Quoting Boeingfreak (Reply 13): I agree with you, that is one point. |
Quoting Dvincent (Reply 14): individual rejection/prescreen threads did kickstart some interesting discussions. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 16): Bingo, I have to admit my participation in this area dropped off a lot once that was changed in fact if you look at the timing many did the same. To go to a thread with that many replies and that many pics being posted for help it is too confusing and the threads just get out of control. I know from a mod point of view and the sites it's great but for the people actually in the thread it's confusing as hell. In fact I rarely if ever give advice unless someone breaks the rule and posts their own which is quickly deleted. I would be willing to bet if you went back to the old way and just deleted posts that have run their course and the thread starter can request deletion to do so, you would have much more people participating. I just don't have the time to go to a thread with 200 + replies and search what pic, who is saying what and then post. It's a mess. |
Quoting ZakHH (Reply 27): I followed almost all pre- and post-screening threads, and I guess I have learned quite a lot from them. Also, whenever I posted a question myself, I usually received plenty of helpful and friendly answers as well. But I feel that the quality of these discussions has decreased significantly with the pre- and post-screening superthreads. I tried them a few times, but almost never received a really helpful reply. Also, it is almost impossible to follow a discussion on a single picture, as new ones are added to the threads all the time. As a result, I ignore them. |
Quoting Dvincent (Reply 14): Megathreads have helped clean up this forum significantly. |
Quoting Scottieprecord (Reply 26): The free photography accounts changed the dynamics of the forum quite a bit. Way too many prescreen threads were started, which resulted in the mega-threads of today. Unfortunately, those don't seem to be too efficient. |
Quoting Clickhappy (Reply 28): The number one priority for Demand Media is getting the site stable and consistent. Once this happens we will move forward. |
Quoting Ptrjong (Reply 34): Just close the megathreads and re-allow individual pre-/post-screening threads |
Quoting JakTrax (Reply 38): I was of the opinion that, if you didn't want to input, you shouldn't have read them. |
Quoting JakTrax (Reply 38): if you don't like all the pre- and post-screen threads, you can simply overlook them and continue browsing |
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 37): We cant go back and forth between this and that option, both clearly have advantages and disadvantages. |
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 37): the complaint was that this forum was nothing but rejections and prescreening threads. Some older members in particular found this to be very annoying. |
Quoting Dvincent (Reply 14): sometime those individual rejection/prescreen threads did kickstart some interesting discussions. |
Quoting TimdeGroot (Reply 37): We cant go back and forth between this and that option |
Quoting Ptrjong (Reply 41): If a.net is reviewing itself and seeking ways to strengthen its position in the 'spotter' community, |
Quoting Ptrjong (Reply 41): why not introduce an Airport section with maps indicating (legal) photography positions? There are some other sites doing this, but most lack organization |
Quoting JakTrax (Thread starter): Constant and consistent action seems to have ground to a halt almost, and I've begun to wonder why. |