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Kelly wrote:

"no one's ever going to need more than 640K of memory!

no. 3 images a day is not sufficient, not for everyone. what if you want to put images in poser, and terragen, and fractal, and photography, and mixed media? that's more than 3 galleries right there. you have a total of 3 images to the SITE not to each gallery."

Kelly - I don't think the issue here is to do with memory :-)

The point I was trying to make is more to do with individuals flooding a topic forum with image posts that are not likely to generate any useful discussion, and are more appropriately posted in the galleries.

If someone feels their Terragen image needs discussion in a topic forum, then they can freely post it to the Terragen forum; similarly for images created using poser, 3-D, photography, fractal and mixed media etc. If they want, they can even post the same image to more than one forum if their post, and any subsequent discussion, is relevant to more than one.

Maybe I've missed the point somewhere here? I had always understood that the gallery on r'sity was the place to display one's finished works, and the forums were more like meeting places to discuss relevant topics of common interest. Obviously the trigger for this discussion may well be an image in the first instance.

If the fractal forum has not been set up to serve this function in the fractal art community, then it seems pretty unlikely to me that many members of it will want to make use of it.

btw I am personally not in favour of limiting the posts to the forum at this stage, just in limiting the content of the posts to that which is likely to trigger useful and interesting discussion to the fractal art community. But I guess if there are individuals who wish to flood the forum with new posts on a daily basis, that might become necessary.

It seems worth thrashing out these issues in a civilised manner at this early stage, and maybe drawing up some simple guidelines, if the forum is to survive.

Tina

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