name and shame

[vid64]

Yeah yeah yeah, same old rant.

There are many variations on the PaD theme. I’m well known as a purist. New picture taken every day. But I’m long past caring about the PESO type galleries. Heck, if you miss a day or a week a month or even a year, you’re hardly clogging up the META. Then there are those who pull out shots from the archive. Hmmm missing the point in my view, but I’m past caring. What does p*ss me off is the blatent abusers - attention seeking low life type who make no attempt at a PaD project yet force their photographs into our faces on a regular basis.

Let’s name and shame a few I’ve just found.

Name removed to protect the guilty - and all your other low-rent porn
Name removed to protect the guilty
Name removed to protect the guilty
Name removed to protect the guilty

Get these the h*ll out of PaD, you’re just making yourselves look STOOPID. Like you can’t read the words on the front page of the gallery:
“These are the most recent uploads to Photo-A-Day galleries.
Many people have been working to take a new photo every day. This page is a quick way to find today's activity.
Choose your current PaD gallery by clicking the link at the bottom of the edit gallery page.

You can have just one gallery selected as a PaD gallery. This prevents abuse of this page.â€

[vid64]

Hmmm Silence eh?

Well, the spamming of the meta continues.

Those who were enjoying Name removed to protect the guilty's Vacation in Croatia too bad - Todays's PaD is Sunsets. I wait with baited breath to see what we get tomorrow, or later today perhaps. Meanwhile Name removed to protect the guilty is still showing us all Denisa has to offer. But a new one I hadn't noticed before is Name removed to protect the guilty's 'Body Language'. All great stuff but all a load of old SPAM. I can't be the only one who cares, there are others here that are doing it for real, I know.

Or am I the one who's wrong. I have some old holiday snaps that you mght like to see, oh and loads and loads of VW pics that I'd just LOVE to feed you one at a time... hello... hello... !!! ???

[northstar37]

:quiver:

[jillburhans]

Thought I would go through the pad meta gallery to see the abusive posters. I feel, althought justified in your rant, for me, it aroused my curiousity to see thier work.

Too, as I clicked on second page, I had to laugh at ME being that I have an image mistakedly placed in the meta gallery due to having it checked to be a pad gallery!!

Sorry!

Secondly, although David you began the original picture a day, which is an excellent lesson of forcing one to practice the fine art of photography, to share a "story" of what is captured on a that day...it has changed due to growth. Needless to say, it has lost it's personal flavor of the good ol days. I admit, I miss the closeness we all shared.

Just IGNORE the abusers. It only adds to your own stress.

That is my two cents worth.

[bassrock]

Yes, I DO take a picture a day but in my other parallel universe. I just happen to post it in this universe, hence the slight time delay

[reddishtiger]

David

On the other hand many of the photographers whose work is featured in the PAD metagallery do work hard to take and post a photo every day.

What I have found since starting my PAD is that everyone makes their own rules, there are no rules, just to take and view good photos.

Sure, some people will always abuse, just ignore them, and take in the excellent artists around pbase.

Regards

Lee

[jude_53]

I'm not sure what you're saying exactly, David. Are you talking about vacation (or whatever) galleries that are being uploaded countless times a day? That since that particular gallery is marked as linked to the meta the reloads keep refreshing to the meta over and over in one day?

I did that once accidentally. but realized what I was doing and unmarked until I was done with the gallery I was loading up so only the LAST photo of the series showed as my PAD.

I will say that calling people "low-life types" is a bit harsh.. it DOES clog up the meta and I do understand your frustration but it's not like they locked their dog in the car in the summer with the window closed.

I'm just sayin' ...

[jeannius]

I will say that calling people "low-life types" is a bit harsh.. it DOES clog up the meta and I do understand your frustration but it's not like they locked their dog in the car in the summer with the window closed.

But if they DID lock their dog in the car, on vacation, or with a nude model, at least they would have thegood sense to document it and link it to the META gallery!

[toddono]

Man, I'm sorry I missed this. I went on a rant a while back like this myself for many of the same reasons. I kinda just gave up after that and stopped even looking at the metgallery, even stopped frequenting the PAD forum here. I pretty much keep to myself and the few kindred souls I've connected with. Perhaps this is all to my own detriment; I believe in sharing your work and see-and-be-seen, if taken the correct way it can lead to better photography. Even so, I got so tired of the best-of's, the archives, the vacations and on and on.... I just stopped frequenting. Now, I dip in, take a look around, then jump back in to my own work and my favorites list...

[alexphotos]

I would like to add a name to this list.

Photogenix

He upload all is photo with the pad flag.
Today on the 24 dec i was wating looking at the pad and I saw at lease 5 upload of is photos in the pad meta in less then 1 hour.

[mike_dunbar]

Well I have been concerned that I may have been inadvertently misusing the facility. I travel quite a bit and there is not always an opportunity to upload. When I get back home I upload a few images, trying to average something like a photo a day. This may appear to be spamming the system but I want to assure everyone that that is not my intention. If I am causing offence to anyone I will try to change the way I operate.

[cewing]

well first off, speaking for a new member
this site isnt the easiest for getting used to for surfing and explaining what anything is, one just gets in here, and starts uploading, and HOPES they can get something accomplished!! took me damn 3weeks to finally get rid of a *in box*
so, give a chance to the newbies, understand you've been here forever and know the site, until the creators make this site more surf friendly, chances are you're going to see a few put things were they *dont belong*
also naming folks, is down right rude..isnt there a private message thing? how about trying that and explaining to them how it all works? crazy concept i know. also this might help your frustration of seeing things that dont belong
so if I do anything *wrong* i would greatly appreciate someone contacting me to let me know, rather then find my name in a forum with someone going off about what i have done
im STILL trying to figure out this PAD thing, along with everything else on this site
so helping is alot better then shaming..doncha think?

have a happy new year
chris

[alexphotos]

There no problems about new user for all that I know.
Some of those name were doing it before I started PADing.
That 315 day ago.

[gpaai]

I remember my first year. I posted ONE photo a day religiously. 90% of the time my uploads were within a 2 hour window every morning as well.

Now, being numbed by many things that took/take place on the meta gallery. I basically post when and what I want. I might go a week without posting, then post two images within a 24 hour period.

Starting 01/01/07 I will have an even newer attitude I will be living by entitled "SUCH IS LIFE, DEAL WITH IT".

I hope I don't upset, offend, or even "P" off anyone in the process.

Gary

[type]

While I'm not sure naming and shaming is such a great idea, I do understand peoples' frustrations and I will hold my hands up and say I've used the meta on and off but not according to the purist way it was designed for.

I did do PaD consistently for less than a year and I've toyed with doing it again, for the discipline, as much as anything. Even at that time, I was not working to the purist model; of always posting a picture I took that day as near as possible, though where I could, I would.

This is an entirely personal thing, and I know that many get great benefit from following the purist route, but my vanity, to be honest, prevents me from posting what is in my eyes only an OK or mediocre picture, particuarly to a defined, common audience becuase I find myself asking "why would anyone want to see this crap picture of mine?".

I would sooner post what I regard as one good (or good enough, anyway) picture a day for as long as I can sustain it, than dilute the quality, and that will inevitably mean posting pictures from different periods because I'm nowhere near good or inspired or free enough to take a good photo everyday.

I think if we're honest, people here often express disappointment with the meta because it's fair to say most of the photos on the meta are just not engaging photos. If the majority of metusers are really posting a picture a day from that day, that the majority of photos in any 24 hour perior are not good is not at all surprising, given how hard it is to take even one good photo a week. Of course, there's no accounting for taste, and there are other reasons why you might do a purist PaD besides simply impressing people with photos. Indeed, some people have a PaD gallery and never post to the meta. I suppose if people annoyed with my fair-weather Pad-ing suggest I go and do that, I can't blame them.

However, another thing that bothered me about PaD is that, as a result of my being selective about what I posted, I found that I was putting all my best pictures in PaD becuase I knew it got a greater audience, as a result of which other galleries were a bit starved of what I thought was quality material. Since abandoning PaD as one gallery, other galleries of mine, I feel, have flourished as the lurve is spread around more.

Still, I like the idea of trying to post one decent picture a day, and in the past few months I've been trying to do just that, and where I feel a photo is just that bit better, I link it the meta.

Am I doing a PaD?: Sorta.

Is it still all in one gallery?: No

Do I try not to fill the meta with below-par stuff (which I take plenty of!): Yes

Is my position entirely defensible?: Hell no, but I hope I've shown that people don't play by the rules sometimes because the rules are too rigid, even if they are being a bit naughty and frustrating other people who want everyone to play by the same rules.

It is also true that they are a minority of people who, to use that great British expression, 'take the piss' by linking everything as often as they can in a cynical hit-hunt.

I suppose a solution might be a two-tier system, one meta for the purists with code written to ensure people could only post once every 24 hours etc. and another for 'the rest of us', but I admit both tiers would still run into trouble; not just of the technical variety but because of that most intractable of problems: human nature.

My final thought is that is slightly amusing to see people getting so worked up about it. It really just doesn't matter that much! I know there will be those who disagree...

Niall