artlessbeauty wrote:
In my post I did not say that posting 3 times a day is okay for me only, rather I argued for a case where everybody posting three times a day. And according to my logic/argument that will give better exposure to all.
The problem with this argument is the with volume comes mediocrity. There are some who could post 3 or 4 photos everyday and post good work doing it. Most of us do not have that time. I work very hard to get the one Photo A Day up that I do (when I manage to do that even) and try to make it worth while, both for myself and for those who care to look. Admittedly I am not always successful but I do try. Those posting more than that to a PAD gallery are stealing time from me and those others here who treat this with honor.
artlessbeauty wrote:And doing better photography and trying to get exposure are two independent paths towards the satisfaction on doing photography I feel. They are not complementary rather closely depend on each other. Every good photographer would feel happy if more people see their work.... how much appreciation will he/she receive that entirely depends on the quality of photographs.
You are right, they are different paths to the same goal, however, the PAD gallery was set up to serve only one of them. There are other avenues to exposure if that is your goal. Post in the Show and Tell forum. Post in multiple galleries of your own when you do post so that more of your galleries show in the Recently Updated list. Most important, look at and comment on the work of others. I think this last step has gotten me more exposure than any other thing I could have done here at Pbase. If you want attention, you must first give that attention to others. Most people here will nearly always go check out the work of someone who is kind enough to take a minute of their day, look at our work and leave a comment.
artlessbeauty wrote:The deeper reason of PaDing is nothing but displaying your work to others..... if we can have an way that do it better or more efficiently why not following that, when it doesn't disobey any of the rules set by PBase.
With all due respect, you still don't get it. You have been told multiple times in this thread that most here, at least the serious and respected ones, do PAD to
improve their photography. There is a collective peer pressure there to work at getting a good photograph every day that helps us, drives us forward. Posting more than one photo or posting the same photo multiple times is counter to the collective culture.
Just because something is said politely and offered as a request rather than a rule is no reason to disregard it. It is also no reason to upload a new photo every hour or every 8 hours because it says not to do it every 5 minutes. I believe one should follow the spirit of the request which is to upload only 1 photo per day. In some circumstances, when you are behind and have photos taken on previous days you might post 2 or 3 to catch up but that should be the exception rather than the rule.
Lastly, you have spent most of this thread trying defend your actions after asking a question you nearly had to know you would not like the answer to. I think it is safe to say that none of those abusing the PAD meta gallery in the manner you wish to do spend anytime here in this forum. Most of the folks who take this project seriously enough to come to this forum also believe in the unwritten code of conduct for the PAD project.
So I believe you have your answer. I am sorry it does not make you happy or give you the justification you were seeking.
Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:31 pm 
