will king Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hi. I just got one of my threads deleted. The reason, for posting a full size image. If that was wrong I apologize, but someone please either email me the replies I recieved on that thread or repost it minus the attachment. I recieved some vaulable feeddback and tutorials from some nice people that I could desperately use. I was posted in the Canon EOS forum approximately 5-6 AM EST. Thanks. ~Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Deleted threads are gone. They can't be recovered. <p> I fail to see what the ambiguity is concerning the message about posting images. It reads: <p><b> <em>MAXIMUM FILE SIZE 100 KBytes: please do NOT upload full size images from digital cameras. Crop or downsize to a maximum width of 511 pixels.</em></b> <p> It's presented every time you attach an image to a post. <p> Since attachments are scanned for size by the photo.net server when uploaded perhaps it's time that attachments over 511 pixels wide or 100K bytes insize were simply rejected and the poster informed that the image is too large and must be resized before it will be accepted. <p> It might be reasonable to make the limit 600 pixels and 150 Kbytes now (511 and 100K was probably left over from the days of 640x480 displays and 28K dialup modems). <p> Uploading full size images from digicams and DSLRs is a waste of storage space and a waste of bandwidth. In the worst case where they are presented as in line images rather than attachments, they totally break the photo.net format, shoving the right margin out to the limits of the image (I've seen 3000 pixel plus wide images dumped into forums) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will king Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Okay, it was my fault in not reading the fine print. Won't happen again. However, I think it was quite rude for the moderator of that forum to delete it without emailing me the reponses. He/she did inform me it was deleted and emailed my original question, I just don't see why he/she couldn't have cut and pasted the whole thread and included it in the email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will king Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 BTW, I do think that it's a good idea that the image get rejected if it's too big. Or at very least, just strip the attachment but leave the thread. Man, that makes me MAD. There was a lot of helpful info I received from that thread and now it's down the toilet. I love this site and fully want to support it and that's why I paid to become a member, but crap like this makes me think twice about renewing. I wouldn't mind paying $100 a year for a little better service. I really wold like to have that thread back. Is there something Brian can do to retrieve it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_fouche Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 It makes far more sense for photo.net to automatically reject image submissions that are too big, than to delete a thread that lots of people have taken their valuable time to contribute to. Why do that when there is such an easy technical fix? Destroys goodwill, trashes contributed information, all unnecessarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will king Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Very well said Bill. Thank you. As a matter of fact, weren't you one of the ones that offerred some helpful advice to me on my portrait photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 There's a button when you post "notify me of responses". By default it's checked. Assuming you didn't uncheck it, didn't you get reponses emailed to you? As far as I know that still works, but maybe it's broken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will king Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Nope. Not sure if it's defaulted to be checked. I certainly did NOT uncheck it, and I never do uncheck it. I have NEVER gotten any emails from any of my forum postings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 OK. Brian - are responses still supposed to be emailed to thread posters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 This is the "radio button" I'm talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will king Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Yep, I went to post a new question and I saw it. I nver really paid attention to it. But I can , without a doubt, say that I did not and have not ...ever uncheck that option and have never received any emails. Again, if there's anyway my thread is salvageable, please send it to me. Many thanks if you or try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.wind-upbird Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I've never gotten emails when that box is checked either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHildreth Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 The "Notify me of responses" radio button has <B>never</B> worked for me. I've seen a number of comments from others to this effect also, and they were aware of the buttons purported functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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