Photography Forum?

[Mint]

Would be quite good to look at them I suppose. :8 I could always send in a few of my "homemade" photos if you know what I meeeeean?

[nvrspk4]

Dissapointed if anything. I have seen plenty of threads regarding photography, and a number of users commenting in my threads.

Here are links to the ones I can find:

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I have gone down to June. 33 threads of the ones that the keyterm 'photography' appears within. The amount of users on these forums who do not make threads however post within the threads is getting bigger and bigger. If competitions were run by users such as myself, and a 'base' of users was created (verymuch like certain users post in the technology forums) then I believe it would grow into a larger focus on these forums.

How can you say there is no interest. I know there will be lots of replies to this post from users supporting the idea.

33 threads in three months is nothing to create a sub forum, much less a forum over The technology forums are not really a good example to base the photography forums off of, we do not want to create a forum where perhaps some photographers look down on "sub standard" photographers, which is why we would probably not allow users to hold their own competitions.

Just to answer your last two questions there...

I believe the forum would be used yes. I also see the need for a photography forum, to allow us to have our photographic discussion away from other areas of Art/Pictures. If we have our own area, this allows use to post as many thrads as we want, without 'competing' with other threads which are nothing to do with photography. It would also allow us to get some threads stickied such as a photographic competition.

On top of this sub-forums could be created such as 'Advertisement' etc. I am sure you have seen the support that this has got from both normal users and super moderators.

Atleast give it a trial period?

I disagree with the comment that you need to "differentiate" from art and pictures, honestly you're not in a pitched battle for frontpage views in the Other Pictures forum, as I said. You can already post threads as much as you want.

Failing a sub-forum, why not edit the description so that newcomers know where photography discussions are? Pictures could mean anything, like lolcat edits or random shots of people clubbing.

That's a very rational suggestion, we'll probably implement something along those lines.

A great post Jordy and well summed up

I have thought of a funny situation this could be compared to:

Student: We want a salad bar
Canteen: There isn't enough interest
Student: But you haven't offered it before therefore people haven't shown an interest?

That's an extremely flawed example. That assumes there is no outlet - which is not true. There is an outlet, simply you want an entirely seperate one. This would be more along the lines of your request:

Student: We want a salad bar
Canteen: There's a salad bar in the sandwiches line
Student: We don't want to have to wait on line with the people buying sandwiches
Canteen: Only about 10 people buy salad and 5 buy sandwiches. You don't need a seperate salad bar

Now it seems ridiculous for me to write out a scenario like that but you started the Student-Canteen scenario so I wanted to make the realistic comparison in step with your comparison.

[e5]

33 threads in three months is nothing to create a sub forum, much less a forum over The technology forums are not really a good example to base the photography forums off of, we do not want to create a forum where perhaps some photographers look down on "sub standard" photographers, which is why we would probably not allow users to hold their own competitions.



I disagree with the comment that you need to "differentiate" from art and pictures, honestly you're not in a pitched battle for frontpage views in the Other Pictures forum, as I said. You can already post threads as much as you want.




That's a very rational suggestion, we'll probably implement something along those lines.



That's an extremely flawed example. That assumes there is no outlet - which is not true. There is an outlet, simply you want an entirely seperate one. This would be more along the lines of your request:

Student: We want a salad bar
Canteen: There's a salad bar in the sandwiches line
Student: We don't want to have to wait on line with the people buying sandwiches
Canteen: Only about 10 people buy salad and 5 buy sandwiches. You don't need a seperate salad bar

Now it seems ridiculous for me to write out a scenario like that but you started the Student-Canteen scenario so I wanted to make the realistic comparison in step with your comparison.

Is that a long way of saying no?

[DarrenToogood]

I think your main concern is users commenting poorly on other users photographs - I am sure this would not happen and I am sure users can remain mature.

Remember, photography isn't Habbo Trading section

[cocaine]

Remember, photography isn't Habbo Trading section

i dont see how that comes into play :S

[DarrenToogood]

By that I mean its not habbo users arguing over whos room is the best

[Axel]

Pictures forum.

[nvrspk4]

Is that a long way of saying no?

Yes.

Darren, those were not the only arguments against it

By that I mean its not habbo users arguing over whos room is the best

No I disagree I can already see sorts of issues forming - and its not only Habbo where this conflict arises, it is more prevalent in Technology where users have a certain professional superiority with regards to each other.

[Leetzgirl]

Yes.

Darren, those were not the only arguments against it



No I disagree I can already see sorts of issues forming - and its not only Habbo where this conflict arises, it is more prevalent in Technology where users have a certain professional superiority with regards to each other.

There would be more argumeants if it was crated.

Gonna get people like darren saying he takes pro photos, then takes the piss out of the "snappers" if there such thing

[DaveTaylor]

I got given a link to this a couple of days ago by Darren, he was obviously hoping I would support this, however in some cases I don't, it doesn't yet warrant a sub-forum yet at all, however Darren does play a part in that himself, due to his "professional status" and claims of others as "snappers" he has some what damaged the chances of this sub-forum at the moment, I agree prefixes are not the nicest of ways to do such a thing however at the moment maybe it's the best thing for it, and wait and see.