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EVERYONE PLEASE READ!!!

Dear All,

I have consulted with my fellow moderators and we have agreed that, in the future, anyone who wishes to share a large number of images with the rest of us should do so by posting a link to an externally-hosted album elsewhere (Photobucket, Flickr, etc) and not by “swamping” the forum with several new threads at once.

Anyone who wishes to start a new thread and is unsure what we mean by “a large number of images” should contact a moderator by PM before posting.

Thanks

GA

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By: Grey Area - 2nd January 2010 at 14:33

Andy, this isn’t a democracy.

You’ve either mis-read what I posted or you’re wilfully misrepresenting it for reasons of your own.

Either way, the subject isn’t up for discussion.

To recap: the only thing that has changed is that in future we ask that anyone who wants to share a large number of images in one go with the rest of us should do so by means of a link to an external photo album rather than starting several new threads.

Everything else is unchanged and the majority of our regular contributors will be unaffected.

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By: Skymonster - 2nd January 2010 at 12:43

No-one is suggesting anything like the situation that you describe.

I did read your post. Not allowing images inline with the post (however many) and forcing people to upload them to something like Flickr detracts from visitors looking at the pictures and is more of a faff than posting pictures inline. I’d have helped if you’d actually told everyone what this mysterious “large” number of pictures is, rather than expect contributors to contact the mods if they want to post more than a few images.

You can’t win Lance.

Well maybe it’d have helped if the mods had actually canvassed posters on what they wanted first, rather than just impose arbitary rules.

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By: Cking - 2nd January 2010 at 12:08

You can’t win Lance.
It sound like a good idea as that means the poster can add or subtract as required
Happy new year.

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By: Grey Area - 2nd January 2010 at 11:35

That’s a bit of an over-reaction if I may say so, Andy.

No-one is suggesting anything like the situation that you describe. Please read my original posting again.

We are relying on people’s common sense which, as always, will prevail.

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By: Skymonster - 2nd January 2010 at 11:30

Another step towards killing off the commercial airline photo forum… First it was moved away from being a sub-forum to commercial aviation (meaning more clicks to get there – I usually can’t be bothered), and now we can’t show a number of images inline in the topic and visitors will have to click through to another site to see pictures – not showing pictures inline makes the viewing proposition far less attractive and a proportion of visitors won’t be bothered to click through to the linked photo site.

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By: Newforest - 2nd January 2010 at 10:16

Thankyou for applying commonsense in this instance!:)

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