Place Requests to Moderators Here
 

If you see threads or posts that should or could be moved, or could be consolidated within another post to better organize, and server our forum, place them here in this thread by responding to this post.

Don't forget to include full linkys!

Where did the long thread on sensor cleaning go? It is probably sitting somewhere self-obvious but I've hunted about and can't see it.

It's in the Hall of Wisdom.

Not visible.
 

Are you sure Marlof? - that's where I last saw it, might be a couple of weeks ago. But for my computer, it's not there now. Totally vanished. Thought it must have been moved. Can everyone/anyone else seeit/not see it?

Did you click the link I created under The Hall of Wisdom? It opens the thread for me....

better put my ears on then :ear

You'll want to move this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=24284 into this one: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=24281

I posted before I found out I couldn't delete it.

Please move posts...
 

Please move posts #8 and following (the discussion between FlyingDuchie and myself) from this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?...ewpost&t=24321 to this one: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=24374

Thanks!

While it may look like self horn tooting, this thread might qualify for hall of fame status:

http://www.dgrin.com/smugmug-support...-question.html

(Or at least hall of omfgsmr.)

:thumb ok - we'll see!

Please move this post: http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=226426&postcount=18 to this thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=25509 Thanks.

Ooops, you moved too much. Please move these two posts:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=226382&postcount=16
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=226382&postcount=17

Back to this thread:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18308

My plan now is to have discussion from the LAB pop tutorial end up in the DM reading group Ch 1 thread, but discussion about the best way to teach pop, whether via LAB curves or more conventionally be in the Pop: The Next Step thread, which could even be renamed to "Teaching Beginners Pop in LAB?"

Please move the discussion of real audio out of the Weegee thread where it is disctracting and irrelevant. Thanks.

Nope. It doesn't belong anywhere else, either. Sorry. Remember - a good thread-jack is great for ratings-boost! Bring's 'em in.

I'm thinking of starting a "Peecees suck post in that thread..." :lol3

Aww mudge, it keeps the thing alive and kicking. It's all good.

Editing a FS/WTB forum post
 

I posted about needing a kit lens here. I found one and changed (or so I thought) the post to indicate such through the Advanced editing button. However, the post title on the main forum didn't change, only the subject within the specific post. Did I miss something?

We have to do that for you. I'll do it :thumb

When I login in to dgrin, I'm given the "test style" view.

It's hideous.

How many newbies are driven away in horror, eyeballs burning, before they discover they can change their view?

Perhaps the default view ought to be changed to, ahem, "default"? Or, for the cognescenti, to "white"? :evil

Sorry Waxy - it's been at "default" forever. White? We have a "white" style? Meh.

Not when I lose my cookie and have to log-in anew. :dunno

Works for me.

ian

are you choosing white from the bottom of the page or your control panel? :ear I would think if it is from the control panel it might stick even if you logout or use another machine. :1drink

:thumb That was it. For some reason it was set to test style. Thanks, Patrick.

Fixed that for ya, Waxy :evil

Landscapes in Nature forum
 

There have been a lot of landscapes posted in the Nature/Wildlife forum lately, which if I'm correct would better to post in the Field and Street Forum. Not that I mind looking at the lovely shots that are posted, but since the Wildlife forum is the busiest forum some threads disappear to the next page very quickly.

Perhaps if the Field/Street forum name had Landscapes added to it?

Just a thought.

Field and Stream, that's fishing, right?
 

Isn't field and stream for fishermen? :):

Maybe old man Harry ought to do his job :toni

I think you have him out manned in the Canon vs Nikon diversionary skirmish.

And next up: The 500mm f/2.8 shootout :thumb

Stay tuned for details :evil

Nah, this is child's play. I worked in the Goldwater and the McGovern campaigns in those I was outnumbered.

Andy is formidable, but you're right; he's nothing compared to Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon.

400 f 2.8????

One fast piece of glass. A beauty but heavy sucker.

http://img.shopping.com/cctool/PrdIm...6/20724550.JPG

Have you thought about a nice, fast telephoto? This might be it.

Ian

Thanks, Ian, for the picture and all. I don't remember seeing much on long Canon telephotos that weren't 5,000.00, so I bet that is big bucks.

And certainly can be debated by Andy and Harry.

Can't see myself getting into that. The 400 f5.6L, now it kicks ass.

And it is the photographer anyway.

Now, I can get into that???????

A SHOOT OUT! Same equipment, same lens! Only fair. I do have a small Canon elph from the old days, we could all shoot with them...........see who gets the best BIF.

ginger (getting myself in all sorts of trouble this AM. Gotta go call the doc's office before they fill up.)

Ginger, you *go* girl!

This one belongs somewhere else. Cameras, perhaps?

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?...ewpost&t=26376

Message to moderators about Whipping Post
 

I guess I just don't get the idea behind the whipping post. I post an image in the whipping post. I wait three days to collect whatever feedback there is. I act on that feedback and create a new version. I post that new version to see if I hit what people were telling me. That new version gets removed because "it's not allowed" according to the rules. Here's the thread.

I just don't get it. What's the point? Why wouldn't you want people who solicit feedback to be able to respond to the feedback in the same thread people were already reading. It appears that to "follow the rules", I have to create a new thread in a different topic area and try to get people to follow the discussion over to a new place.

IMO, the whipping post is being "over moderated" to the detriment of your own purpose. It's difficult to know and follow all the rules, there appears to be no way to act on the feedback and see how well you did and the whole thing is so complicated that there's hardly any traffic in the whipping post.

I understand that you want it to be for people's best images and you don't want "which one do you like best?" threads and that you want to encourage serious critique, but all of those can be maintained and still allow someone to get feedback on a second iteration that incorporates the feedback. Just to show I'm not the only one confused by this, the most recent posting in the whipping post as of this moment in this thread, just did the same thing I did and posted a second generation based on feedback.

Confused...

Dear Confused,

1. Make post in WP
2. Get Whipped
3. Go make changes, reshoot, what have you
4. Post your before/afters here

Seems to be working pretty well so far. I disagree with what you said: it's not a NEW thread you're posting but rather a before and after post to an existing thread - one in which folks can see the results of the whip! It seems like lots of folks are gaining benefit from the whipping, based on the before/after thread. I like the fact that I can be whipped, and then go study / use the comments and critique, and come back to the WP forum and the Before After thread, and show everyone that I cared enough about their comments. It's a nice full, complete circle. It would be great, if everyone that posts in the before / after, also linked to their whipping thread.

We always appreciate your comments, John. BTW, the WP needs to be moderated heavily - the rules are the rules - and if we don't stay on top of them, then people will put up too many images, and the critiquers have too much work to do.

I hope that you'll copy your post here and repost in the before after!

One other comment. Reading is hard! But read, we must. We're growing, John, and there's got to be some order to things. David_TO puts in a TON of hours on Dgrin trying to keep things straight - it's a hard volunteer job with no pay. We want feedback for sure! But for now, we have the rules to follow. If you'd like to solicit other opinions, as to how the WP might be changed, that's cool - we'd love to hear them.

Making a concrete suggestion, only hearing that the "rules are the rules"
 

So far, I'm just hearing that the "rules are the rules". I'm not hearing why my specific request is bad for the WP topic area. David seems to fear that the WP will turn into a Photoshop topic area. I'm not asking for PS help. I'm asking for artistic feedback only. In fact, the whole reason that I was attracted to the WP in the first place is that my Photoshop skills are far beyond my artistic judgement so I was hoping to find a place that was not about Photoshop, but was about artistic judgment. I personally find that I learn fastest when I can get feedback, incorporate that feedback, then see how others think I did incorporating that feedback.

In that spirit, I'm suggesting a rule change that will make the whipping post a more valuable place. Can you explain why a poster who solicits feedback on an image they consider one of their better ones, waits several days for feedback to accumulate and then wants to see if they properly incorporated the feedback can't post a 2nd version of the same image in the same thread to see if it meets the objections so far? If you want to encourage people to fully incorporate feedback before posting again and avoid multiple iterations, then you could change the rules to allow one final derivative posting to be posted in the thread after some reasonable period of time had passed and only by the author of the thread.

A comment/question. There are been only seven new images posted in WP in the last week, an average of one new image a day - that's hardly a load that people interested in following it can't handle. Wouldn't you be more interested in making WP a more valuable place for the people who take the time to contribute there rather than restricting traffic to it?

To your specific comment above, posting a derivative work to the before/after thread is NOT the same thread as I originally posted in. Most of us don't read every message on dgrin. We cherry pick a few that are interesting and then monitor the one's we've participated in using the subscription list. The before/after posting is not going to show up on the subscriptions list for the same set of people that gave me feedback in my original thread. It's not a good place to ask, how'd I do to your feedback. It's a different set of people on that thread, many of which had nothing to say about my image.