Anugama opened this issue on Feb 03, 2004 ยท 48 posts
Misha883 posted Wed, 04 February 2004 at 7:42 AM
Welcome to the Forum, Anugama! As I have preached a number of times before, this site is what the members make it. We have a number of "formal" ways to expose and highlight notable work; the Gallery of the Month, the Top 20, hit counts, ratings, comments, interviews of celebraties, opportunities for writing tutorials. Once we had a Monthly Contest, but group consensis was that we could better learn from each other in the present Monthly Theme and discussion. If these things are not satisfying the needs of the members, any ideas for change are greatly appreciated. Active participation in implementing is even more appreciated! The Top 20, for example, became more useful as more folks started regularly USING it! Recently I started my "Last Week in the Gallery" picks. Since I'm forced to look at every image in the Photo Gallery anyway, every day, rooting out the evils of nipples and primates getting frisky, I felt these picks could encourage folks to look at the wonderful Gallery work. I CANNOT MAKE ANY CLAIM WHATSOEVER THAT THE PICKS REPRESENT A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE VERY BEST. I just pick what I like. That being said, I think I've been doing pretty well, and folks seem to like the feature. [BTW, Anugama had two images chosen the week of 1/24, and one during 12/13, so his work is definitly worth looking at, in my opinion anyway.] But of course I'm going to miss some images that deserve picking, and pick some which perhaps do not. If Members feel there is notable talent which is not being recognized, please do us all a favor and encourage these folks to come over to the Forum and introduce themselves.