Two points here:

1. Number of image posts per day to galleries

My understanding is that r'sity is a privately-owned site that provides a totally free showcase gallery to any artist who signs up for on-line membership. The only restriction is three image posts per day, which seems to be a pretty generous allowance. I imagine that to allow artists to post as many as they wanted (eg a series of 30 images as was suggested above) would cost the owners big bucks, and that this cost would then have to be passed on to its members. This would inevitably deter artists from joining, and thereby reduce the diversity, and probably the quality too, of artwork that is currently being showcased. A chicken and egg situation.

Most on-line artists who are serious about what they do also maintain their own website, at their own expense, where they are free to post more than that if they so wish.

2. What constitutes useful and interesting discussion?

Here we get down to the nitty-gritty of what this thread is about ie "What is this forum for???"

Ultimately, the purpose of the forum will be defined by how its members use it. If there are no guidelines, it will become dominated by a very small number of members using it for their own specific purposes. But the usual purpose a any forum, and indeed of the other forums here on r'sity, is as a meeting place for its members to discuss relevant issues of common interest.

Examples of topics might be the sharing and discussion of artistic techniques, such achieving texture, symmetry, certain shapes, adding frames etc etc in fractal images. It could be related to methods of combining a fractal image with a photographic image or a poser image, for example.

Technical questions too about the use of fractal-generating software.

Other topics that are related are the development of formulae, software programs, plug-ins, use of graphics software, post-processing, website design and maintenance, among other things.

A place for announcements too that are of interest to fractal artists - competitions, submissions for printed projects etc.

Maybe some human interest would be good too - welcoming of new members, feedback about artists' galleries, websites etc.

These are the kind of things I would personally think of as being "useful and interesting" in a forum, and I think I'm probably not alone in this - if I am, then this forum is not for me!

Lastly, when I want to look at and enjoy fractal or other artwork, I browse the galleries, and use the thumbnails subjectively to pick out images that I wish to download and send feedback to the artist concerned. I'm not suggesting that everyone must do as I do by any means - we all have different interests, finances, amount of time, modems etc.

Tina

(now getting off the soapbox!)

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk