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Thanks for your reply, JDMvW, I shall wholeheartedly take your advice, and never come back again. But a last question: I do not understand what you mean by writing, "The instructions on how to delete and edit your profile and portfolio are pretty standard if you just read the instruction on those pages." Which specific instruction-pages do you mean? Where do I find them?I can delete each of my uploaded photos manually by going into "Photos" and "Edit details" and "Delete". And I can go into my account page and try to change a little Avatar etc. here and there. But I see nowhere, where I can delete my entire profile-page as such. It keeps being there. When I search in the Forums postings I come across others who have had the same problems. Seemingly nowhere or no button to click in order to get finally and completely out of here. Yes, apart from that I have understood you, that archived threads remain no matter what.

By now I feel that I do not belong here in this photo community at all. Especially after all what the last moderator wrote. Talking about defaming people, oh boy. The moderator has even stipulated that I am not allowed to reply here to his in my eyes unnecessarily aggressive, condescending, defaming and insulting post. Therefore, can somebody please help me with a step-by-step guide as to how I unsubscribe completely from Photo.net and delete not only all my pictures but my entire profile-page. I thank you in advance.

What I have been claiming is that MY PURPOSE is not "shaming", but I find it hard to point to a pecific problem without mentioning the specific problem. And by soft and blandly generalizing I would most surely achieve absolutely no reaction or change by that, and the person in question would most probably not even be made aware of the mentioned dilemmas. Besides, the person in question has before by other members IN PUBLIC been strongly asked to stop uploading tons of these kind of pictures that seem completely irrelevant and uninteresting to the vast majority of other member. And this person has after all uploaded more than 13.000 pictures to her page, so it is not a question of a mediocre and boring picture here and there, but a very visible phenomenon that has the potential of influencing the general impression of this site in an unfavorable direction. After all, most agree with me that a photo community's purpose is to share and comment each others pictures because there is potentially something of interest to look at? I think that in these whacky times (to use your own phrase) we are getting so very sensitive and overly protective that we prefer to live with unnecessary problems than take the opportunity to better the situation. Because, what do you actually achieve in the zealous effort to protect the "weak"? You keep on getting endless amounts of pizza-photos and the like, but photographers with more ambition and more interesting pictures to offer, they will leave this site. And what future do you then think is in store for this site? That should be easy to figure out.

Thank you dear Moderator Sandy for commenting and leaving nobody in doubt what is allowed and what is not. In stead of the kind of "end of discussion" tone, I could have hoped though for a little debate whether you and others can see the same dilemmas as I have seen them? And maybe a good solution could come out of it in the end? After all, my efforts are all about trying to contribute to saving this site and giving it a good future. As things are now, the only result iwill be a further deterioration of the general interest in this photo community. And we do not want that, do we?

I find it much more legitimate and honest to have an open and tranparent debate with all interested members in stead of sneaky behind-the-scene-actions. And as a highly democratic person, of course I'll leave the White House when asked to...ehm I mean, of course I shall follow all rules and majority decisions on this site loyally. I have described the dilemma, now it is up to others to decide whether or not they recognize the same dilemmas as I or not.

At least I restrain myself uploading "annoyingly boring" animal head portraits to one or two at a timeo_O

I have not told anyone that "you can't upload pictures" I have just pointed to the unfortunate fact that if you upload not just one or two clompetely inept and boring pictures, but overwhelming amounts of them, it contributes to drag the interest for this community down. You tell me, what do we all prefer to spend time to look at: boring images or interesting images? Up till now it is technically so that ALL uploaded pictures show and take place up in the category "Recent images", where it sometimes is hard even finding one's own pictures drowning among some enormous batch-uploads. Maybe that could be changed somehow? The woman in question with the many many pizza-photos and house-wall photos etc. has before by other members intensely been begged to curb her inclination to upload vast amounts of this type of photos. After all, she has by now far more than 13.000 photos uploaded on her page. And has achieved only one Editor's pick from that mountain of photos. And even that pick I cannot understand at all. Would you like it, if I used this photocommunity as my external hard drive and uploaded all my pictures directly from my camera's memory card to here? I could, it is perfectly legal. But would you prefer that I beforehand made a selection and just uploaded pictures I particularly liked myself and I thought might be interesting to be looked at and commented by my fellow members? Is that not the very purpose of a vibrant photo community? Following your opinion the result will be that maybe the inept feel welcomed and invited but the adept flee. It has already happened to a large degree. And I very much miss many of the competent ones. And the overall interest for the site will just deteriorate further. But no doubt your attitude is much more in tune with the times than mine.

The purpose is not to "shame publicly" anybody, but to point to an unfortunate possibility that degrades this site and does not help getting potential new members on board. It might be a "right" as a paying member to upload whatever and how many photos you like but it does not help the site to be visibly flooded in this way, to the contrary. After all, said member has uploaded in total more than 13.000 photos. And has thereby obtained only one Editor's pick. That is of course perfectly legal as the rules are up till now. But at the same time it also gives a hint as to quality and the possible joy for other members to spend time to look at? I could use this photo community as an external harddrive and just dump all my pictures from my camera's memorycard on to here, it would be perfectly legal, but I think most of you would be thankful if I save you that experience? I have before pointed to the option in "settings" under each photo to choose "Make Private." That might be a good solution so as to not flood the members' screens when viewing "Recent images"? Similar (and even much more thriving) photo communities are not only curated but strongly curated before allowing photos to be publicized. And this site could certainly use many more members, when thinking about the plummeting popularity and flight of members over the last few years?

If you on your page go into "Photos" and under each individual photo click "Settings" you'll find the option "Make Private". Might be a good solution?

Here you can find the many pizza photos: You click "Explore > "Browse by categories" > "Recent images" and then you scroll down to the bottom of the screen and you clock "Load more..." and you keep on scrolling a little, and THERE you have them. Enjoy.

Hi Maria Thanks for replying. May I recommend that you do not use this site as an archive for random pictures in connection with your coming blog projects elsewhere on the net? And since you have been a member since 1999 you should by now know how much effort most other members put into their creations before uploading them for everybody to see and contemplate. Also I think it is bad for this site's reputation and that potential new members coming across loads of uninteresting pictures of the same pizza, will likely not be interested in joining us and that would be a shame. Furthermore, it is not the first time other members have given you comments about not uploading such a large number of uninteresting and technically inept pictures. I think photo.net actually offers an invisible/private option for uploads. Worth investigating that possibility? With a little effort - and inspiration from other members' photos - I am sure you'll be able to present us for pictures far better and more interesting in the future, And not just use photo.net as a cloud-archive. Many thanks.

Now a certain Maria Bostenaru once again has spammed the site with endless boring pictures of the same corner of the same pizza and the like. I wonder if it might be appropriate for admin to ask individuals who upload great amounts of pictures of zero photographic interest to other photographers to stop doing that? If the pictures are SO important to the owner, maybe he or she then could just upload them in “private/publicly invisible” mode if possible, so they do not occupy so much space for others to have to laboriously dig through?

Thanks a lot Sandy for your hard work. I think you and Jack are just right. It is exactly because I have not categorized some of my pictures that they do not show up in the trending category. Mystery solved, thanks again!

I have observed lately that my pictures no longer appear in the the trending category although the pictures are newly uploaded and have received both several views, likes and comments. Does anyone know why is that? Is there some sort of admin curation taking place?