Posting Limits

By coryking
•6
written 6/8/08 11:46 AM, published 6/8/08 11:46 AM

You used to be able to post as many stories as you like provided you follow the unwritten rule "No more than a post a day".  We'll now I've enforced this unwritten rule in Photographica itself.

From now on, you cannot publish more than one story in a 24 hour period.  That means if you posted a story this morning at 10am PDT, you will not be able to post again until 10am tomorrow. During this time, you can create a draft of your story; you just will not be able to publish it until tomorrow.

Let me know if you have any questions about this new policy. 


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  • The Old Guy
    •3
    6/8/08 12:12 PM
    hooray!! You are a good webmaster Mr. Cory. You hear the cries of the anguished and you respond very well. I think that implementation is much more effective than any notice or instruction ever would be. Only problem I can see with it is I very often publish late at night and this will mean that I can't shave an hour or two off the next post. But that doesn't happen very often and usually I don't post two in succession anyway so I think I can live with it very well. I'll just wait past 24 and publish early! That's it by golly! Good going.

    - So shoot already!!

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  • coryking
    •6
    6/8/08 12:17 PM
    I've thought about that, Old Guy.  If it becomes a problem, I think I'll implement some kind of "soft warning" so if you are like 23 hours in, you can post, but it will bitch at you.

    - Spike Lee

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  • MRQUACKERS
    •4
    6/8/08 1:21 PM
    Thank you Cory.  I, too, have been known to 'shave a few hours.'
    But I don't think a hard block would effect me very much, either.

    - A quack with an camera

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  • Wildman
    •4
    6/8/08 4:01 PM

    Adda boy Cory! You're on a roll with the site! Stay the course..

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  • kalole0
    •4
    6/8/08 4:13 PM
    Good for you, good for us.  I like it.

    - togetherness.....

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  • The Old Guy
    •3
    6/8/08 4:36 PM
    That 23 hour soft warning my be just the trick! Thanks from a couple of old men. None of the fine ladies here are "old". Course not.

    - So shoot already!!

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  • vaphotoman
    •1
    6/8/08 5:02 PM

    You listen to a couple of bitching whiners and go and change things! Some folks posyt at 5:00 pm and then have some good stuff  at 2:00 pm the next day for posting. For the most part everyone only posted once a day. Sure you had new folks that didnt know about the "unwritten Rule" but they all came around.

    I say  give them some cheese to go with the whine and sorry post's

     

    - I like it Hot

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  • photonut657
    6/8/08 5:11 PM

    Wow, this place is getting like all the other chat rooms, a few think it is for them only!

    what he said on the wine!

    Wow

     

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  • BusyB1965
    •4
    6/8/08 5:31 PM

    Thank you Cory for everything.....I remember another feature that we used to have and that was being able to choose the number of post to view on front page, and do believe I had my set for 30--kinda wish we could still do that, but oh well, what we have 'ain't bad at all'.  Again thanks for all the work....

    - Blessings

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  • coryking
    •6
    6/8/08 5:41 PM

    you gotta understand people have requested this for years.  The "dude, you already posted once today" unwritten rule has been a major source of flame wars on this site since dinosaurs were mailing me 1.5" floppy disks full of photos to post on this website.

    I'll probably implement a "soft" warning / hard fail, because I think making it exactly 24 hours is kind of silly.  I'm thinking something like 12 hours and it will refuse to let you post and from 12->24 hours it will just give you a very stern warning.  Not today though, I just wanted to kick something out the door to get started.

    - Spike Lee

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  • Lori Smaltz
    •3
    6/8/08 6:20 PM

    If it is a rule I say enforce it otherwise it isn't any good.

     

    Good idea Cory.

    - american[bohemian] style

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  • Ashton
    •3
    6/8/08 6:47 PM
    Cna't be any planner then that can you Lori! Good on ya Cory.

    - Say...CHEESE

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  • Phantoms Wife
    •3
    6/9/08 8:22 AM
    I just like that there will be some way for people to know they shouldn't be doing it. It is irritating to come on and find the entire front page is one poster, and I am tired of having to PM every newbie to let him know the infraction. Also, it is probably discouraging to a new person to get more comments on his first posts about posting too much than about what he posted. I think it is a good thing!

    - learning never ends

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  • sundaykindolove
    •2
    6/9/08 8:31 AM

    While we are on the topic of improvements.....wouldn't it just be a matter of "flipping a switch" of some computer sort, so that posting is a member benefit only??

    I think it would alleviate a lot of recent issues.

    - Think Visually

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  • coryking
    •6
    6/9/08 10:06 AM

    Hello Sunday,

    I appreciate your input and can understand that this seems like caving in to the "whining crowd".  However, this isn't a recent issue... it dates back to the early dawn of this website.  I just finally got off my lazy arse and fixed it for good.  The implementation could use a bit of work, but again, I wanted to push it out as quickly as I could to get feedback.

    Look at the positive--most people who double post are not doing so maliciously.  They just never heard of this crazy "dont double post" rule and innocently did it.  Then they'd get flame mail for doing it.  All I've done it make it impossible to break an unwritten rule by writing it down :-)  Everybody wins.

    Once I improve the implementation so if you post at 2am one day, you dont have to wait until 2am the next day to post, it will be most excellent and perhaps even totally tubular. 

    - Spike Lee

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  • sundaykindolove
    •2
    6/9/08 11:19 AM

    Cory...I apologize, but my comment wasnt in regards to the 24-hour limitation.  I'm fine with that.

    My concern is with only allowing non-members to post comments about pictures.  It is fine that non-members can view photos, but only members should be able to comment as a benefit of their membership.

    It seems that recently there has been a lot of abuse by non-members being intentionally mean-spirited for no purpose other than causing cyber grief to everyone who had the misfortune to read the comments and responses.

    - Think Visually

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  • cratchet
    •3
    6/9/08 11:40 AM

    Sunday-

    Cory already fixed this - no commenting by non-members, and that way, whatever they sign in as . . . you can click ignore and never see them again.

     

    - the EYES have it

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  • vaphotoman
    •1
    6/10/08 6:30 AM

    Cory, You are taking all concerns and working to please the whole lot of us

    Thanks for your hard work

    - I like it Hot

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