Re: Monochrome Print Competition - 16 Sept 2015
Posted: Tue 22 Sep 2015, 05:13
Are we tracking analytics on useage of the site vs forum? I can't remember the last time I used the site and while it's useful as a portal to attract new members, the photo sharing & critique areas of the forum are much more useful for sharing feedback and talking about photos. I would never have dreamt of checking their for images truth be told.
I would also like to once again request competition images are shared on the forum. Or even just a bulk upload to flickr with a link on the forum. The additional work overhead is minimal, the new flickr bulk uploader does it all automatically when you add new images to a dedicated folder on your hard drive.
The idea that publishing our best images on the forum somehow degrades our chances at winning inter-club competitions is also nonsense. Think of it this way - how many times have OUR committee done a thorough trawl of every other SPA club's website to see if there were images we could somehow infer were going into competition then, using that information, go back and tell the CCC club members to "shoot better than these images we found that may or may not end up being in a competition"?! It just doesn't make any sense
For competitions, either our members shoot better than other clubs for any given event or they do not. The requirement for any "meta"-gaming is zero. On the contrary, the benefit of sharing winning entries is huge. We're a photography club with a forum... we should be sharing MORE photos on our forum! We want to see photos!
I would also like to once again request competition images are shared on the forum. Or even just a bulk upload to flickr with a link on the forum. The additional work overhead is minimal, the new flickr bulk uploader does it all automatically when you add new images to a dedicated folder on your hard drive.
The idea that publishing our best images on the forum somehow degrades our chances at winning inter-club competitions is also nonsense. Think of it this way - how many times have OUR committee done a thorough trawl of every other SPA club's website to see if there were images we could somehow infer were going into competition then, using that information, go back and tell the CCC club members to "shoot better than these images we found that may or may not end up being in a competition"?! It just doesn't make any sense
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For competitions, either our members shoot better than other clubs for any given event or they do not. The requirement for any "meta"-gaming is zero. On the contrary, the benefit of sharing winning entries is huge. We're a photography club with a forum... we should be sharing MORE photos on our forum! We want to see photos!