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Your thoughts on one aspect of the photos section
I had a suggestion today for the photos section, and I thought it was a good one.
We might want to keep the photos section specifically for nice full photos of games / gamerooms, and any photos that deal with schematics, other smaller aspects of the games might be better located in the groups themselves.
I know that even when I started this site, I was going to have my eye on the photos section. We should be good for a good long while, but the space isn't infinite. I would expect in three years at the current growth we might have to think about quality vs. quantity.
So, what I am toying with is writing a rule to the rules page about the types of photos / where they should be filed. I certainly don't want to see this site be a storage for personal interest, personal photos. This is about games, and I want to keep things as streamlined as possible.
Thoughts on this?
We might want to keep the photos section specifically for nice full photos of games / gamerooms, and any photos that deal with schematics, other smaller aspects of the games might be better located in the groups themselves.
I know that even when I started this site, I was going to have my eye on the photos section. We should be good for a good long while, but the space isn't infinite. I would expect in three years at the current growth we might have to think about quality vs. quantity.
So, what I am toying with is writing a rule to the rules page about the types of photos / where they should be filed. I certainly don't want to see this site be a storage for personal interest, personal photos. This is about games, and I want to keep things as streamlined as possible.
Thoughts on this?
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Permalink Reply by Bill Jr. on -
Yeah, there is some guy bill who is flooding the photo section!!! I agree, set some rules. When I started uploading I was under the impression that for the most part you wanted all the photos hosted at NING so they would be in one place. Then I thought that I would have more control of my flickr photos that I upload so no one would see my photos until I shared them. I like the ideas of complete games (possibly before and after if you are restoring) but keeping only the important photos. I like the idea of hosting schematics or any other important photos for the community. High Scores or anything else should be posted w/i the groups or forums (I think you can upload photos in the forums). Let me know what you want me to delete if and when you decide.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on -
I know you knew I wasn't jabbing anyone, and we got a great amount of photos posted, almost 500 already, just showing how great the Photo section can be.
So, now that it's growing rapidly is a good time to define some ground rules.
I definitely want all useful content to stay somewhere on the site. Would you be willing to take some of your time to move the Venture joystick stuff into a joystick post in that group?
I am just really impressed and happy with how you jumped full force into everything anyway.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Jr. on
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Jeff Rothe said:I know you knew I wasn't jabbing anyone, and we got a great amount of photos posted, almost 500 already, just showing how great the Photo section can be.
So, now that it's growing rapidly is a good time to define some ground rules.
I definitely want all useful content to stay somewhere on the site. Would you be willing to take some of your time to move the Venture joystick stuff into a joystick post in that group?
I am just really impressed and happy with how you jumped full force into everything anyway.
I found it funny that out of 475 photos 235 were mine. Yikes. I knew you weren't jabbing at anyone. Just need to get a handle on how the photo section needs to be organized. Personally, I feel that if you upload photos that it's in yours and everyones best interest that a album is made immediately with descriptions and/or tags.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on
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Agreed, on all fronts. Albums are really important, as are tags. Titles however, might be more important than tags. I am guessing if people don't do titles, they don't do tags, and if you have images of your Donkey Kong labeled some weird name, they won't come up at all in searches of CoinOpSpace
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on
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Ok, I know it's thanksgiving, and a lot of people will be doing family time....
But I updated the rules section with some guidelines on photos. I will give it a couple of days before I start enforcing it, probably as late as the first day of next week.
Hopefully some of the photos can be migrated over to individual groups.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Jr. on
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Jeff Rothe said:Ok, I know it's thanksgiving, and a lot of people will be doing family time....
But I updated the rules section with some guidelines on photos. I will give it a couple of days before I start enforcing it, probably as late as the first day of next week.
Hopefully some of the photos can be migrated over to individual groups.
So Jeff... You want me to remove the restoration photos. For example on my Q*bert restoration would you want the best of the best of the "finish" and possibly 1-2 before photos? Making sure I include nice photos of the side art, bezel, cpo & marquee? Or would you prefer the finished product or even a original game in as in condition (working or not working... dedicated is dedicated).
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on
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Just take the restoration photos, all of them, because they are still valuable, and start a thread in the group and show the full restoration there. Same with the DK....which may warrant now making a DK2 group because that really isn't a regular DK and wouldn't seem to fit in that group...
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Permalink Reply by Bill Jr. on
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Jeff Rothe said:Just take the restoration photos, all of them, because they are still valuable, and start a thread in the group and show the full restoration there. Same with the DK....which may warrant now making a DK2 group because that really isn't a regular DK and wouldn't seem to fit in that group...
D2K group now exists. Have 4 or 5 members. I'll do some editing later.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Jr. on
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Thinned out the photos pretty good. However, will need to take some time to re-upload photos to the individual groups.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on
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Just wanted to let all of you know who this pertains to....
Ataricade (Francis) is a moderator here. He sent out an email to all that it applied about the photos in the general section.
If he sent you an email, he is probably letting you know about photos that need to be deleted, or maybe just general FYI for the future.
If you were confused about getting this email....I realized that later, because I hadn't specified who Ataricade was...
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Rothe on
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I know this is kind of confusing, but make sure to embed your images in posts, don't attach them. The form fields to attach are easier to see, but they aren't a nicer solution in the end.
By embedding an image, Ning takes it, resizes it, and puts it inline in the post. I updated the Rules with screenshots of both, but here they are again;
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