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[bib]

Well, it kind of is. This one is supposed to be the "images showcase", after all. Why should it be getting less and less attention unless there's a wider problem? Furthermore, as is evident from earlier in this thread, the decamping of most of the former regular posters to this gallery is causing the three of us that are still posting to it routinely to appear, at first glance, to be hogging it or something, and that's causing Trifox to contemplate limiting everyone to three new images a week. I'd rather than didn't happen and probably so would many other people.

So ... what is going on?

I don't see what problem you're talking about honestly. FF has never been doing so well in terms of pageviews, we welcome tens of new members each week, and the galleries are richer than ever. Long life fractalforums!!

[Pauldelbrot]

I don't see what problem you're talking about honestly.

Did you look at the two links I posted last night?

[bib]

Did you look at the two links I posted last night?

Do you mean the links to the FractalArt sub-gallery? there is no particular reason they should be more active than the other. I only look at the most recent.

[Pauldelbrot]

Do you mean the links to the FractalArt sub-gallery? there is no particular reason they should be more active than the other.

What I don't see is a reason it should be getting less active, and with less variety of people posting to it. A trend I think is troubling. Is there somewhere else everyone else now posts their images instead, or what?

I only look at the most recent.

[Dinkydau]

What? Are only 3 images a week allowed here? I hope the time I've been away still counts then.

[Pauldelbrot]

What? Are only 3 images a week allowed here?

Not so far as I am aware -- at least, not yet. But it seems Trifox was/is contemplating it for some reason ...

I think there is an existing limit, something like two or three posts per person per day, for gallery uploads, but that's not particularly stringent. Reducing it to 1/7 that would be, though, IMO.

[cKleinhuis]

we do not know how to deal with it, we have the standard gallery group that needs approving for the images,
and then users can upon personal request awarded to the auto-approve gallery member group, there is no hard
limit by the gallery, it is all done by hand, the gallery has just been updated, but i miss the feature to set the uploading
limits, you know ... this site is growing too fast, and i am scared of everything i am not in control, and uploading
large amounts of images still is a pain in my head, because just 2 gig are left for storing the images ...

i am a bit overreacting nowadays, mostly because i can not keep track of every discussion here, and last week
happened things that i havent known about, they where settled in the admin section, but it is not a good feeling
to see gliding it all out of my hands ... so i have to rely on trusting the members of the forum to not abuse it in any
way ... abusing means, advertising, porn posting, massive image posting, images as attachments posting and stuff like
that.... you know, there is no one paid for controlling this, it is all done in the spare time of the members, and with
the growing user base the administrative part is getting bigger and bigger, we have nearly everyday something new
someone is complaining about ....
 

[Pauldelbrot]

i am a bit overreacting nowadays, mostly because i can not keep track of every discussion here, and last week
happened things that i havent known about, they where settled in the admin section, but it is not a good feeling
to see gliding it all out of my hands ... so i have to rely on trusting the members of the forum to not abuse it in any
way ... abusing means, advertising, porn posting, massive image posting, images as attachments posting and stuff like
that.... you know, there is no one paid for controlling this, it is all done in the spare time of the members, and with
the growing user base the administrative part is getting bigger and bigger, we have nearly everyday something new
someone is complaining about ....
 

Maybe you need more moderators on the mod team?

I have to wonder where all of this activity is, when the images showcase forum and images showcase gallery seem to be contracting in terms of activity level...

[cKleinhuis]

i dont know why you just measure activity on gallery activity, activity in the forums is overall posting count, and i have 2 pages of new posts every day....

[Pauldelbrot]

i dont know why you just measure activity on gallery activity, activity in the forums is overall posting count, and i have 2 pages of new posts every day....

The gallery's more what I'm interested in.

So, are you saying the activity is moving away from sharing images and towards more discussion?

[Sockratease]

The gallery's more what I'm interested in.

So, are you saying the activity is moving away from sharing images and towards more discussion?

This has always been primarily a discussion forum.

Image hosting was not a part of it's original intent.  It crept in later.  The focus has always been on discussion more than images.

[Pauldelbrot]

This has always been primarily a discussion forum.

Image hosting was not a part of it's original intent.  It crept in later.  The focus has always been on discussion more than images.

So, it started, peaked, then began to decline?

[cKleinhuis]

i do not get it at all, the gallery is active and more active like ever, have you seen this ?
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=10315

[bib]

I think Pauldelbrot is right and that this conversation does not make sense.

[Pauldelbrot]

i do not get it at all, the gallery is active and more active like ever, have you seen this ?
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=10315

So, almost everyone's now posting to their individual user galleries instead of to this forum? Why?