Robert W. Pillow
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Regarding Gallery's and Albums
Robert W. Pillow replied to MrAndMrsIzzy's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
Please excuse me Tony, but what is the meaning of the acronym in your response? I don't think I have seen that before. Thanks! -
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A healthy community can handle complaints. A healthy community will see complaints as opportunities to grow.
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Here's a thought: Update the latest release of photo.net to restore the ratings functionality from the legacy system and save the users the trouble of maintaining their own. That's what I call user friendly.
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error message, system log out
Robert W. Pillow replied to Robert W. Pillow's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
Well, it seems photo.net did not like my updated email address. Eventually today, I lost the ability to access forums. After I went back to the old email address a few minutes ago, I could access forums again. -
error message, system log out
Robert W. Pillow replied to Robert W. Pillow's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
Update -- I can log back into photo.net using my current email address and password through Firefox on my MacBook, but the problem from iPad on Safari persists. When I go to forums I get "PhotoNet Community -Error", the two Tamron ads. and the system log out. -
Late last night or early this morning, I updated my email settings. I was able to log-on from my iPad, but when I tried to go forums, I got an error message, two instances of a Tamron ads, and logged out by the system. I suppose that could be because my old log-in, with the old email address, persists from my MacBook even though I shut he Mac down last night. I write this from MacBook, now. I'm going to log out after I post this. If you don't hear from me again, you'll know why.
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I agree the new photo-display format is similar to that of other sites, for which I have the same complaint as the changed photo.net: Scrolling to reveal more pictures is less efficient than clicking one button to go to the next set of photos within a gallery. Scrolling takes more effort than a button click. Scrolling is not as intuitive as a button indicating “click to go to the next page”. The argument that photo.net needed to get away from the TCL programming language, whose last release was July 27, 2016, is not justification for throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'm certain that there was a way to use a more common programming language to keep the best of the old photo.net, update desirable features that needed improvement, and replace the parts that required cumbersome navigation. It wasn’t necessary to dump the legacy system’s distinctive look and feel to accommodate the use of a language spoken, so to speak, by a larger set of developers.
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Questions about the rating system
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
The best source for answers to these questions is the legacy system. -
What would an ideal ratings system look like?
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
Mr. C, my concern is that the new photo.net will not re-introduce a rating system because the staff cannot guarantee that it's fair, accurate, and meaningful. Such a stance would be similar to a representative democracy canceling elections because voter fraud has occurred, period. Photo.net just needs to have a zero tolerance policy for ratings' manipulation. When ratings' manipulation is discovered, take action against those responsible. Meanwhile, the users and the staff have to live with the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect rating system. Exercise due diligence, certainly, as the rating system is developed, but don't exorcise what many consider to be a desirable feature. If a majority of the user base approves your solution, that works for me. By the way, I've been a member of photo.net since 1999. -
What would an ideal ratings system look like?
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
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What would an ideal ratings system look like?
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
Maybe it can't be prevented, but it can be addressed. You had to have some objective method to know when multiple accounts from a single user affected ratings. Of course, until I see the statistics, I can't really see how extensive the problem is. -
What would an ideal ratings system look like?
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
The size of the response can be attributed to the location of a survey whose existence and link has not been broadcast throughout photo.net. -
What would an ideal ratings system look like?
Robert W. Pillow replied to Leslie Reid's topic in PhotoNet Site Help
If an issue can be quantified, it can be prevented. Mr. Palm you just said "...Simplicity is the spice of life....of maybe it was something else...I can't remember now, but you get the point - I believe based on what we have seen before on this subject both discussing this internally and externally that once we start with complicated explanations....it becomes problematic...." Mr. C's proposal sounds pretty complicated to me.