Not to be a pest....

.....although it is a role I sometimes enjoy but over the last several days,

maybe longer, I've noticed what I perceive to be a new found annoyance to

users. Now, when you click on a photo when you are using the Rate Photo feature

or the Critique Forum (& perhaps elsewhere), the photo appears for a second or

two with the text that you see in the Options View. Then the screen flickers

and the image re-appears showing the text that you see in the Critique View. I

would wager 12 dozen Dunkin Donuts that this flickering is a recent development.

I find it very annoying because the instant the first view appears, the viewer

tries to start reading what is there only to have it suddenly disappear and new

text appears. Then again, I am easily annoyed and others may not consider this

to be a flaw. However, you would make one member very happy if you reverted

back to the way it previously worked without a flicker. The only response I

would hate to get from this post is one that says, "this is the way the new

system works and we can't change it".

Hmmm, I haven't seen this.

 

Can other users chime in with reports of this problem?

Josh,

 

If you go to the critique forum (the page with all the thumbnails) and click on a thumbnail, when the photo first comes up it's in the "details" view, then quickly changes to the "critique" view. But from what I remember, it's been doing this for a long time. It's just one of those little fun photonet things.

 

Cheers.

Sure enough, it does do that. Guess I never noticed before.

 

I will have someone look into it.

Can you make the details stay longer? It should help in anyone's assessment of the value of the photo. If we must try and put a numeric value on a subjective matter, wouldn't it help to have some idea of how the photo was made?

M.M. you can see the details by clicking on Details in the Critiques page.

 

Most people don't record any details, so seeing them by default would add little, in my opinion.

 

<Chas>

Chas

 

You seem to have an innate ability to state the obvious in new and original ways. But I think you missed the point of my post.

 

Jim was talking about the 'critique' forum on a learning photography site. What can we learn about a photo without seeing the details of how it is made? How can we critique it if we do not know if it was a scanned in post card, or a photo from our Parent's collection from the UK 70 years ago, scanned in and claimed as our own?

 

My point is that if the EXIF data was available for digitals or otherwise the photographer would be required to state the particulars in the technical information; and ask a specific question about what is to be critiqued; this would go a long way to improving the critiques on this learning photography site.

 

The way you add your camera and other details is a nightmare at present, so I can see why its not filled out. Also the promotion of the TRP and ratings games over good critiques in the CRITIQUE FORUM has degraded this site over the years. I had hoped that with the change of management last August we might see more and better critiques, but I just see more flashing ads, more arguments about nudes vs. porn, more arguments about digital vs film cameras, more and more complaints about the ratings, with nothing really done about any of it. They ask us to have patience and wait for the new system. A year is a long time to wait, especially when you can go to numerous other communities and find the answers to your questions and interact with other people who are interested in the same things you might be doing. The articles here are full of information, but there is no way to interact about your photo within the Articles.

 

I just hoped we could promote this site's ability to get back to critiques and dump the ratings entirely. Not likely to happen, though. I am afraid that the games are what brings the viewers into the site to click on all those flashing ads and email their friends when they have loaded a photo to come to the rate recent to promote themselves to the top of the TRP for the exposure ir the imagined ego boost.

 

There I have definitely been a pest. And I'm not sorry I did it either.

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