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The e-mail address which we have in our database does indeed end in three zeros, not in three letters o.

I think it would be best to have a system that encourages as many ratings as possible. That way, one or two "odd" ratings

won't matter so much.

 

The reasons for having an anonymous system have been discussed thouroughly -- please search the archives.

 

Not displaying the photographer's name is something many people will object to. It is their work that would be displayed

uncredited, and they might circumvent this by adding their name to the image file itself.

I'm not sure what happened. The post you mention was waiting in the queue for moderator approval. It has now been

approved, so you should be able to see it just fine. Please let us know if there continue to be problems.

Fixed the spelling error. Thanks for reporting it. I'll leave the colours to someone with an education other than computer

science :-)

Click on the photo.

I think it's best to contact Josh Root, director of community, to see what's available. See this page: http://www.photo.net/info/contact-us for more details.

I'll be visiting on Friday, September 26th. It's a long, but nice daytrip from where I live.

You can delete an entire folder. Other than that, there is no easy way to delete, say, 10 out of 15 photos from a folder.

 

Moving to a separate folder and then deleting that folder might be an option, but I think it will be even more work.

The currently active option is not a link, while the other one is. For me, Sharing links are enabled, so "disabled" is a link I

can click and "enabled" is not. And indeed does disable show in a blue color.

 

I guess an alternative user interface would be "Sharing links is currently enabled; <link>disable this feature</link>." versus

"Sharing links is currently disabled; <link>enable this feature</link>."

Tripod or monopod. Use a church bench for support. Lean against a big pillar. These things will not help to stop motion of your subject, but in this case that will probably not be a big problem.

 

I'd advice against using your flash if you've been told not to.

I thought Photokina was great fun in 2002 and 2004. Lots of equipment on display, tethered or bolted to a tripod, that you can actually use. I think the cameras' card doors were locked so you couldn't always insert your own card and take your pictures home with you. Play with Leica M cameras, big Nikon and Canon glass etc. Particularly in 2002, when I had a press registration for photo.net, people were very willing to offer information.

 

Very crowded, lots of portrait sessions and other demonstrations. Very interesting to see and (briefly) handle various equipment that might otherwise be too expensive.

 

I may well take a daytrip to Cologne this year. (It's about 3,5 hours by train if I recall correctly). Hotels in Cologne are absurdly expensive during Photokina unless you book well in advance.

See http://www.photo.net/site-feedback-forum/00NyOZ

Try logging out and back in again, and/or visiting you Workspace. That should trigger an update. Note that your postings have to be recent or else they won't be counted.

To clarify: I do think that comments are very useful to the photographer and I think it would be great if people left as much comments as possible. However, I think it would be difficult to determine what is useful and what not, given that not all comments are in English.

 

Also, 4 is (supposed to be) average, not 5.

 

I guess that, in order to combine anonymous ratings with required comments, one would also get anonymous comments. I'm not sure if that helps as much as a comment with a name to go along with it.

What exactly are "words?" Does this count? "qwert qwert qwert qwert qwert" Or this? "hey, photo, comment useful no" Or this? "Bewogen, overbelicht, slordig en met een rare zweem".

Additionally, see the <a href="http://www.photo.net/info/about-us">about photo.net</a> page for names and links of editors and moderators.

At home, I am a Mac user and at work we have system administrators who come to my rescue. But here goes... can you

disable Norton 360 and try again? Or, tell Norton 360 that "gallery.photo.net" is "trusted" or "allowed" and try again?

Running Windows firewall sounds like a good idea to me -- do no disable it.

Are you using special firewall software, ad blockers or similar programs that block certain internet traffic?

 

I'm asking because when you surf to "photo.net" you get images served by "gallery.photo.net", which isn't exactly the

same server. Much like you might get ads served by pagead2.googlesyndication.com etc. If you have software running that

blocks images from other servers than the site you're surfing, you might run into the kind of problem you describe.

The new servers are supposed to make the site faster, not necessarily easier.

 

Can you post a link to the image that appears to be stuck?

Photos are cached, which helps reduce server load. However, it also means that changes to an existing photo will not be immediately visible. If, after one day or so, the photo still does not refresh properly, then something may have gone wrong.

I think you may just have dipped below the threshold. Visit your My Workspace to have your icons updated, just in case.

 

In general: not only forum posts count toward the canisters. Rate, critique, ... participate as much as possible!

Entering HTML codes is probably just fine. I guess it breaks when somebody types alt+digits (Windows) or uses copy and paste from a program like Word.

You become an Elf when a nice lady, who is friends with the Editor in Chief,

asks you to take over publishing POW for a few weeks while they go on a trip.

And then she never... oh wait, no, that's just how they tricked me into it :-)

 

For the Real Elves (I try real hard to just push a few buttons called Add or

Confirm and not interfere too much): it's mostly by recommendation. So, be a

good community member, contribute, post, critique etc.

Probably because it's the only one of the symbols that's present in the US ASCII character set. Not exactly sure where this goes wrong. The "extra bits" before the pound and euro signs are stored in the database (when querying through SQL*Plus). I'll ask the other programmers as well.

We have roughly 20 Elves and they can nominate a photo whenever they like. They are not required to look at all photos. Some will see an interesting picture when they use the Rate Photos feature, or when they browse the gallery. Others may click on someone's name and stumble upon a good portfolio. Different people, different tastes, different methods.