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Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

tammymc opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 173 posts


Colin posted Tue, 12 August 2003 at 9:29 PM

I think this is one of the most customer-unfriendly things you could possibly do! All you are going to achieve is REDUCING the viewings of people's images.

Consider MY case:
_ I'm home recovering from an injury, so I have LOTS of time;

So I should be the PERFECT Renderosity-gallery-surfer. Yet, even -I- don't have time to review all the postings in the galleries; so I skim the thumbnails, right-clicking on the ones that look interesting, then continuing on to subsequent thumbnail pages while I wait for the full-sized ones to load. Then, like leatherguy and others, I'll go back and review the full-sized images. I find that, by this method, I can keep on top of daily gallery postings - barely! (which is also why I almost never hang out here in the forums!)

But today, when I realized that right-clicking had been disabled, and sitting through just a few "click-wait-wait-wait-view-clickBACK-wait-wait-ReturnToGallery" cycles, I thought "to HELL with this!", and became even more selective in the images I chose to view. I probably looked at about 25% of the images I would normally view. Might well have missed some real gems, but...

So, if this continues, I simply won't bother to look at as many images. Is that really what you were trying to accomplish? A determined thief will find a way to get the image... but by alienating the majority of viewers, you're using a shotgun to shoot the mosquito among the butterflies!