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Steve - keep up the good work on weeding out the undesirables. This is a great forum to see other peoples work and a chance to really learn how to take better pictures. I'm not sure that listing every piece of gear you own beneath a picture is a good idea however. I just show what I used for a particular shot ie..settings,and lens type and body. Not sure why we need to see the gamut of someone's gear listed. Guess I lean to the paranoid side a little. Thanks for all of your input online too.
 
Steve - keep up the good work on weeding out the undesirables. This is a great forum to see other peoples work and a chance to really learn how to take better pictures. I'm not sure that listing every piece of gear you own beneath a picture is a good idea however. I just show what I used for a particular shot ie..settings,and lens type and body. Not sure why we need to see the gamut of someone's gear listed. Guess I lean to the paranoid side a little. Thanks for all of your input online too.
Some EXIF data automatically appears below the images posted. Are you referring to that? I see no problem with it, and it’s there by general request.

Others, like me, list their gear in their signature, Naturally enough I don’t see any issues.
 
If desired you can go to your preferences in your profile by clicking on your username top right, and uncheck the signature section, so then you don't see people's gear list.
 
Steve - keep up the good work on weeding out the undesirables. This is a great forum to see other peoples work and a chance to really learn how to take better pictures. I'm not sure that listing every piece of gear you own beneath a picture is a good idea however. I just show what I used for a particular shot ie..settings,and lens type and body. Not sure why we need to see the gamut of someone's gear listed. Guess I lean to the paranoid side a little. Thanks for all of your input online too.
I like to know what gear individuals use. The more info the better.
 
I was just curious why it was shown. Not sure who sees the forum and I tend to over worry about theft because I've seen it happen. I agree it is good to see what people use because it often answers questions about new gear and what people are migrating to.
 
I have a couple questions:
1) Can a post be fully deleted (complete removal) after it has received a few replies?
2) Can a member block another member?
 
I have a couple questions:
1) Can a post be fully deleted (complete removal) after it has received a few replies?
2) Can a member block another member?
Charles,

I'm not sure about the 1st question, although I imagine an Admin could do it for you.

#2 is easy. Click on the offending member's icon picture, then select ignore from the options at the bottom.
 
I have a couple questions:
1) Can a post be fully deleted (complete removal) after it has received a few replies?
2) Can a member block another member?
As a supporting member, you an delete any thread you start. As for posts, you can delete them but if they were quoted the quoted part remains since it's part of the new post. Hope that makes sense :)
 
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Finally, as a general rule, please be polite in your posts and responses. When in doubt, picture yourself in a room with a couple hundred other photographers - if you wouldn't speak out loud to that group what you're about to post, it's probably best not to post it.
Steve,
I am curious how posting an unsolicited picture in another photographer’s presentation is viewed by the administrators (moderators). My thought here is that you can have an enthusiastic new member learning from others being blind-sided by an accomplished pro posting a similar image in their presentation. The last thing I would want as a entry-mid skilled photographer is to have the self appointed “grand guru” up my presentation with a significantly improved version. This has NOT happened to me but I see new (and new to photography) members coming onboard that are wanting or hopeful of support, guidance and suggestions. Hubris should be left at the door…
 
Steve,
I am curious how posting an unsolicited picture in another photographer’s presentation is viewed by the administrators (moderators). My thought here is that you can have an enthusiastic new member learning from others being blind-sided by an accomplished pro posting a similar image in their presentation. The last thing I would want as a entry-mid skilled photographer is to have the self appointed “grand guru” up my presentation with a significantly improved version. This has NOT happened to me but I see new (and new to photography) members coming onboard that are wanting or hopeful of support, guidance and suggestions. Hubris should be left at the door…
Our current policy is that we allow members to post edited images of other members work only in the Critique forums. In the other, Presentation forums members shouldn't download, edit and re-post a member's images without explicit permission. If the original poster sends us a Report about someone trying to hijack a thread without the OP's permission or does things like downloads and posts edited versions of someone's images without permission outside of the Critique forum we'll generally delete the problem post and send a message to the member asking them not to do that.

The download, edit and repost without permission thing in a Presentation forum is something we'll generally step in and correct especially if the member that posted the original image lets us know through the Report tool. Thread hijacks with folks throwing in their own images is more of a case by case thing though we'll typically take action if the member that started the thread doesn't like it. If folks hijack threads with images completely out of the scope of the discussion or out of the scope of the forums we'll also typically take action. But remember the moderators don't review every forum post or every thread so it does help a lot of if folks use the Report tool below each post to let us know if they have issues with a reply to one of their threads.
 
Steve,
I am curious how posting an unsolicited picture in another photographer’s presentation is viewed by the administrators (moderators). My thought here is that you can have an enthusiastic new member learning from others being blind-sided by an accomplished pro posting a similar image in their presentation. The last thing I would want as a entry-mid skilled photographer is to have the self appointed “grand guru” up my presentation with a significantly improved version. This has NOT happened to me but I see new (and new to photography) members coming onboard that are wanting or hopeful of support, guidance and suggestions. Hubris should be left at the door…
I'm not a fan of "hijacked" threads either. It happens to all of us not only to newbes. However it may be a bit presumptuous calling it hubris. Giving others the benefit of the doubt often nips conflict in the bud. After all "a picture is worth a thousand words". Maybe it's just easier for the person commenting to post an example than to type a dissertation. But no argument that before doing so the courteous thing to do is to ask whether the OP minds.
 
I'm not a fan of "hijacked" threads either. It happens to all of us not only to newbes. However it may be a bit presumptuous calling it hubris. Giving others the benefit of the doubt often nips conflict in the bud. After all "a picture is worth a thousand words". Maybe it's just easier for the person commenting to post an example than to type a dissertation. But no argument that before doing so the courteous thing to do is to ask whether the OP minds.
The issue of hijacked threads is a challenging one. Often the converstation goes off on tangent, not exactly on target but interesting at times. It would be valuable if there were a way to launch a sub-thread to discuss tangential topics. I know this is not on the main thread of posting images on someone else's thread.
 
Steve,
I am curious how posting an unsolicited picture in another photographer’s presentation is viewed by the administrators (moderators). My thought here is that you can have an enthusiastic new member learning from others being blind-sided by an accomplished pro posting a similar image in their presentation. The last thing I would want as a entry-mid skilled photographer is to have the self appointed “grand guru” up my presentation with a significantly improved version. This has NOT happened to me but I see new (and new to photography) members coming onboard that are wanting or hopeful of support, guidance and suggestions. Hubris should be left at the door…

Dave summed it up perfectly. I'd only add that some posts in the presentation forums are for people to post their own images of a certina kind - like Show us your best owl photo - or similar. Those are the notable exception. Otherwise, if you post in Presentation, it should just be your images in the thread.
 
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I personally would object even in critique to altering someone elses image without asking first.

My other pet peeve is folks posting what seems like a contrived topic so they can post a picture as the first post in general photo discussion rather than where it belongs in a presentation forum. Or for that matter using general photo discussion to post a picture only slightly on topic.
 
I personally would object even in critique to altering someone elses image without asking first.

My other pet peeve is folks posting what seems like a contrived topic so they can post a picture as the first post in general photo discussion rather than where it belongs in a presentation forum. Or for that matter using general photo discussion to post a picture only slightly on topic.
I agree - when you see stuff that's in the wrong forum, report it. We're happy to move the thread id it's in the wrong place.
 
No religion. Well that means no Nikon vs Canon vs Sony discussions. No PC vs Mac. Or Coke vs Pepsi. ::cool:

But I know what you mean, but at times discussion of camera brands can get be heated (luckily not here).
Good friend and I use to go shooting almost every weekend him and his wife shot Canon, my wife and I shot Nikon. No negative comments or discussions. Just GOOD TIMES. Miss those times, he moved to Texas.
 
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