Kalmbach, we need a PHOTO GALLERY

[vsmith]

Been checking my Large Scale sources on-line and Large Scale Online, My Large Scale.com, Large Scale Central, Bachmann Trains, also Atlas and a lot of other sites all have a readers photo gallery. Can't be that hard to set up, and I'm pretty sure we dont have any wacko's in this forum that will post pictures of thier backsides in any gallery

Be a real shame if every other on-line site has a photo gallery, almost all of them do, and Trains.com doesnt.

(I'm trying a little "Catholic Guilt-trip " on Terry, lets see if it works...:-)

[vsmith]

Been checking my Large Scale sources on-line and Large Scale Online, My Large Scale.com, Large Scale Central, Bachmann Trains, also Atlas and a lot of other sites all have a readers photo gallery. Can't be that hard to set up, and I'm pretty sure we dont have any wacko's in this forum that will post pictures of thier backsides in any gallery

Be a real shame if every other on-line site has a photo gallery, almost all of them do, and Trains.com doesnt.

(I'm trying a little "Catholic Guilt-trip " on Terry, lets see if it works...:-)

[Anonymous]

Slow the site down???????????? Give me a break, it's already one of the slowest sites on the net, no way you can slow it down much more. Risk of inapproropriate content???????? Just about every train forum out there has photo Galleries as well as photos in the regular sections and have no problem, why does MR think they would be the only ones to have a problem????? Stupid thinking like this (as well as the rising cost and shrinking content) are why I let my subscription expire. Nice try Terry, if you don't want to tell us the real reason you want to keep this forum in the 19th century fine, it's your forum do what you want. Don't blame me though for only stopping by every once in awhile for a good laugh at MR's and Trains.com's expense.

[Anonymous]

Slow the site down???????????? Give me a break, it's already one of the slowest sites on the net, no way you can slow it down much more. Risk of inapproropriate content???????? Just about every train forum out there has photo Galleries as well as photos in the regular sections and have no problem, why does MR think they would be the only ones to have a problem????? Stupid thinking like this (as well as the rising cost and shrinking content) are why I let my subscription expire. Nice try Terry, if you don't want to tell us the real reason you want to keep this forum in the 19th century fine, it's your forum do what you want. Don't blame me though for only stopping by every once in awhile for a good laugh at MR's and Trains.com's expense.

[Puckdropper]

If you're worried about inappropriate content, appoint moderators who are regulars on the forums and you believe can be trusted. Keep an eye on them, but let them moderate. I am a moderator on two Yahoo! Groups, and know that trusted sources will do a good job.

[Puckdropper]

If you're worried about inappropriate content, appoint moderators who are regulars on the forums and you believe can be trusted. Keep an eye on them, but let them moderate. I am a moderator on two Yahoo! Groups, and know that trusted sources will do a good job.

[Anonymous]

Terry,
You need to hang out at the Atlas forum for a while. Visit it on Sunday's nights and check out the Sunday Nite Foto-fun in the N scale area and the HO forum has another title, but easy to spot.

Photos only slow the forum down if a thread gets really long. For example, the first thread in my first reply here has 88 posts in it with quite a few pics, so it is slower loading. But the Atlas N forum is the busiest N forum on the net as far as I am aware and it isn't sluggish.

Allowing people to posts pics improves a forums participation.

In all the years I've been at the Atlas and trainboard forums, I've yet to see one offence picture - lots of bad ones (usually poor lighting) - but no offencive ones.

[Anonymous]

Terry,
You need to hang out at the Atlas forum for a while. Visit it on Sunday's nights and check out the Sunday Nite Foto-fun in the N scale area and the HO forum has another title, but easy to spot.

Photos only slow the forum down if a thread gets really long. For example, the first thread in my first reply here has 88 posts in it with quite a few pics, so it is slower loading. But the Atlas N forum is the busiest N forum on the net as far as I am aware and it isn't sluggish.

Allowing people to posts pics improves a forums participation.

In all the years I've been at the Atlas and trainboard forums, I've yet to see one offence picture - lots of bad ones (usually poor lighting) - but no offencive ones.

[Catt]

Since a photo uploaded to an online gallery would only be a copy of the origonal photo ownership would remain with the poster (assuming it was their photo in the first place).

Uploading the photo would most likely be the same as granting permission to the site host to use your image as they saw fit.Personally if I didn't want this to happen I just wouldn't post the pic.

By the way I agree with Rick on the ATLAS Forum pics.There is some really awesome modeling pics posted there. There are some really awful pics too.(meaning the qaulity of the picture not the modeling.

[Catt]

Since a photo uploaded to an online gallery would only be a copy of the origonal photo ownership would remain with the poster (assuming it was their photo in the first place).

Uploading the photo would most likely be the same as granting permission to the site host to use your image as they saw fit.Personally if I didn't want this to happen I just wouldn't post the pic.

By the way I agree with Rick on the ATLAS Forum pics.There is some really awesome modeling pics posted there. There are some really awful pics too.(meaning the qaulity of the picture not the modeling.

[Anonymous]

Dear Terry MR editor, QUOTE:It's also still the case that digital photos taken with consumer-quality cameras are almost never magazine-quality - the resolution isn't high enough, and the depth of field usually isn't there. ANSWER: If the cops can get a license number off a car across the street from a store video tape where the peole walking in the door are fuzzy with computer enhansement why can't a digital image be brought up to your magazine's high standards using the same technology? FRED

[Anonymous]

Dear Terry MR editor, QUOTE:It's also still the case that digital photos taken with consumer-quality cameras are almost never magazine-quality - the resolution isn't high enough, and the depth of field usually isn't there. ANSWER: If the cops can get a license number off a car across the street from a store video tape where the peole walking in the door are fuzzy with computer enhansement why can't a digital image be brought up to your magazine's high standards using the same technology? FRED

[scotttmason]

FRED: I don't think Terry has the Pentagon's services available, so their art dept. is stuck with off-the-shelf products like Photoshop. However nice photos are on the other forums; a 700 pixel wide image, even with digital manipulation, can't match an original scan to size when printed. That's why the forums are free; have to buy the magazine.

[scotttmason]

FRED: I don't think Terry has the Pentagon's services available, so their art dept. is stuck with off-the-shelf products like Photoshop. However nice photos are on the other forums; a 700 pixel wide image, even with digital manipulation, can't match an original scan to size when printed. That's why the forums are free; have to buy the magazine.