PeterKrenek

I have brought this issue up already, with little effect. I think Photo

Critique Mail Summary should contain links to photos, instead of showing just

the photographer's name and title of the image. It is time-consuming and

sometimes impossible to search through the PN Directory to find the user and

then the photo. I hope others will agree.

Mike, I guess we are not talking about the same thing. I know very well about my community page posting history... I am talking about the listing of images that I get every week by e-mail. You can set this option in "My workspace"..."Site bureaucracy"..."email alerts". There you can set keywords for a photo to appear on your e-mail. Try this, if you are not aware of the possibility. I am not satisfied with the format of the listing I get. There you have no links to photos, only photographer's name and title of the photo. You then have to search through the PN directory, find the user and browse for the photo.

Mark, if there were links to photos, it would be great to copy and paste, but there are none in the Photo Critique mail summary. For your information, here is an example of the "link" to a photo:

 

From: David Heiden

Subject: Belgium Harbor

Date: 2007-06-17

Comments and critiques welcome...

 

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From: Kieran Cunningham

Subject: Night Sky Prague

Date: 2007-06-17

Any Comments Please?

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So, you have to search for the user in the Directory and then try to locate the photo in question. Do you find it convenient ? I do not wish a complex document, the summary may remain in text form, but with links to photos included, that is all.

Photo Critique mail summary should contain clickable links to photos, instead

of being just a plain text file. It is time-consuming and sometimes impossible

to search through the PN Directory to find the user and then the photo. I hope

others will agree.

I would like to suggest what I think would be a useful change in the Photo

Critique forum weekly summary. It would be better if it were an html document

with links to photographs, instead of being just a listing of photographers'

names and photo titles. This way we would not have to search in the PN member

directory to get the photo in question. The search itself sometimes does not

give a result, if the user has just an initial instead of the surname. Thank

you. Peter

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It must be something on my home machine, now I am at another computer and everything works. The difference perhaps is that at home I have the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Jin,

 

here is the URL of the search page:

 

http://www.photo.net/gallery/caption-search/

 

here is an url of the first non-nondisplaying photo, if I give the string "test" in the box

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/562322

Yes it is. I do not know what could be wrong.

Software upgrade finished yet ? Could you reconsider my suggestion ?

I searched the site for photos using the "Search/Browse photos", I get a list

of results, but I see blank space instead of thumbnails for each entry. When I

right-click the space, the option "Show picture" is inactive, indicating a

blank image has loaded. When I click on it, I get to the photo's page, though.

Anyone experiencing the same problem ?

Chip, I do not see anything wrong about this. Probably we are not talking about the same thing. You can already choose whether Photo.net is sending you automatic alert on photos. You just select keywords the image info should contain and an e-mail with information about the photographer's name and subject is sent to you as often as you select. This alert does not contain any links, which makes you lose your time searching for the photographer in the PN directory and then finding the photo in question. That was my point.

 

the link where you can set up an automatic alert is here:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/add-alert?topic_id=1481

Hello, in an e-mail photo alert there could be links to photos instead of just

user name and photo info. This way we would not have to search for users (which

are sometimes impossible to find with just an initial instead of a surname as I

have suggested previously - http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?

msg_id=00Jo3T), but simply click on the link to save time. It might reduce

server traffic (search would not be necessary), so it might be a convenient

change. What do you think ? Thank you.

Josh, Bob, thank you for your answers. I have nothing against people listing their initials for privacy reasons. However, I think it should be possible to find them in the database even when they only give their initial. I encounter the searching problem when I try to find people listed in the weekly e-mail alert for photos. This is another "to-do" thing that could be improved without big modifications - there could be links to photos in the e-mail alert - instead of just user name and photo info. This way we would not have to search for users, but simply click on the link. It would also reduce server traffic, so it might be convenient for photo.net administration. What do you think ?

Hello, it is very difficult to find users who give only a letter as a surname

(such as Max K etc.) The response times are too high given the fact that a long

list of users is being generated. Sometimes it is impossible to have the list

displayed. Would it not be possible to enable search by the whole name ? Thank

you.

Patrick, Bob, thank you for the information. I am glad that Critique Only images now appear among images that are to be rated. Bob, thank you for the good link. Funny that there is a subscriber and mixed page... I shall bookmark the good link. Best wishes. Peter

Stephen, Mary, thank you for your feedback. The photo you mentioned was posted as critique-only, however, the comment I got was only incidental and the picture was not on the list. The URL of the Recent Critique Requests (Subscribers' Critique-Only):

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/pc-recent-requests?rating_type=photocritique&topic_id=1481&subscriber_p=1&critique_p=1

 

I have just posted a shot called "Glow", Category: Nature, I checked "Submit for Critique Only". You can find it in my "Experimental" folder.

 

It did not appear on the above list.

 

What do you think ?

Brian, I tried several times to post images as "Critique-Only". They never got

onto the list. I noticed that all authors of posts in the forum have an icon of

a subscriber. Do I have to subscribe to PN to be able to use this service ?

Thank you. Peter

It does not work again. I see in the list of images Critique-Only Forum that everybody listed is a member. Could someone tell me whether Critique Only Forum is a member-restricted area ? Thank you.

I have looked in the listing again, about a half day after posting, the picture is still not there. I shall re-try this evening and see if the problem is still there.

I submitted a picture as "Critique Only" today, but it did not appear in the

list of new posts. It is not the first time this has happened to me. Are only

paying members allowed in this gallery ? Thank you. Peter

Not at all, Bob. You may know the numbers better, but after looking at the Critique forum, I think that there are not so many photographers doing this. It is up to anyone's will to include the notice. But of course, you are right, that if my proposal were to be in effect, such photographers would not get rating approach equal to others. So perhaps my idea was not ideal...

It has been reported that sometimes a good photograph(er) is given deliberately

low ratings in order to promote other pictures. Would it not be good to change

the rating system in a way that the anonymous rater (in the Photo Critique

forum) would not see the identity of the photographer until the rating has been

given ? Furthermore, the ability to change the rating would be associated with

a loss of anonymity of the rater. I do not know whether this has been already

proposed, but I think there is a lot of animosity in the rating system, so some

kind of change may be necessary. What do you think ?

Brian, I submitted a photo yesterday about 24 hours ago to the Critique Forum

(Landscape) and got no ratings, no feedback, no views. It has never happenned

to me before. The photo did appear in the Critique Requests queue. Should I

simply resubmit ? Was there a technical problem ? Thank you. Peter

Bill, I would not put it so harshly, but you are right that difficult accessibility is deliberate. Otherwise the Critique only forum would be visible somewhere. The best thing is to have a choice, but currently there is none. I am not a Critique only enthusiast, but sometimes I wish only critique and not ratings, especially if I know that the image would probably not gather good ratings. As the Rating system is a competition by principle, I want images that I post there to be competitive and devoid of flaws. Critique-only forum can help with that greatly. You can see that, as you put it, most "critique-only enthusiasts" do sometimes submit their photos in the regular rating system and they are successfull, as demonstrated by Carsten Ranke's recent POW. And many Critique-only enthusiasts also help the rating community by commenting constructively on their work. Critique-only is not a closed community which does not interact with the rest at the PN. So I do not see a reason why PN administration is so reluctant to grant the forum what it deserves - a link placed at a reasonable location and a thumbnail view of recent posts.