Giving useful comments that are easily understood by the viewing public and the photographers in question is not as easy a task as some would think. It takes time and sometimes you have to retype a comment several times to make it come out as you wish it too. Even then, because this is a non-verbal form of communication, some take even the most well intentioned critism the wrong way because they can not see facial expressions of the poster or hear the tonality of the voices voicing those opinions. Therefore, I propose that we introduce... (drumroll please) psychic commenting. If D/L can only provide an etheral link between photographers and commentors, a psychic channel as it were, there would be much more commenting and less stupid threads about people posting rude comments that aren't really rude, just misinterpretted...
What do ya think?
You actually made me think of something that would help. I find myself typing some of the same statements over and over again. Wouldn't it be nice if you could save a few phrases and click a button to use them (kinda like the tool on Ebay for writing descriptions.)
You could save:
"Good Composition"
"Great DOF"
"Top 10"
"Good shot, No wow for me though"
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" just kidding :)
You actually made me think of something that would help. I find myself typing some of the same statements over and over again. Wouldn't it be nice if you could save a few phrases and click a button to use them (kinda like the tool on Ebay for writing descriptions.)
You could save:
"Good Composition"
"Great DOF"
"Top 10"
"Good shot, No wow for me though"
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" just kidding :)
I don't like this idea. The reason why is it makes it too easy for the commenter to not give any consideration to what they are saying and simply paste the supplied text. If there was a means to create user-specific text phrases (ie; you create your own text messages and the site stores them in a cookie for you), the problem isn't as large, but it is still there.
Comments are the most important part of this site (to me anyway), and I'd like to think the commenters express their thoughts as they occured for that image -- not as it occured but constrained within pregenerated text.
Commenting is the individuals response to an individual image -- removing the individualaty of it would not be good -- IMO.
Telepathic commenting sound great though -- really get the individual responses with that. Too bad there is still that sticky problem of implementation. :D
Psychic commenting... I get this image of all of us sitting in front of our computers with funky metal hats on - lights, buttons, dials, frayed wires sticking out all over the place. I think our yearly membership rates might go up though... :-)
So, TC, I'm guessing that someone said you made a rude comment or did you misinterpret a comment as rude?
I try to be as polite as possible when I comment. I try to find both things that I like and things that could use improvement. I'm sure that no matter how much thought I put into it, someone sometime will take offense. Maybe you're right. Maybe this is why more people don't comment - because they're afraid of their comments being taken the wrong way. It's too bad really.
Telepathic commenting sound great though -- really get the individual responses with that. Too bad there is still that sticky problem of implementation. :D
C'mon, how much coding could it take?
Originally posted by hlswilson:
Psychic commenting... I get this image of all of us sitting in front of our computers with funky metal hats on - lights, buttons, dials, frayed wires sticking out all over the place. I think our yearly membership rates might go up though... :-)
I was thinking more of a software solution...
Originally posted by hlswilson:
So, TC, I'm guessing that someone said you made a rude comment or did you misinterpret a comment as rude?
No, I'm just tired of all the stupid threads started by disgruntled postal photographers every challenge...
Originally posted by formerlee:
TooCool, you'd better take your camera in for a test in 6 weeks time.
Man, it might be firing blanks as well as you!!
Have you seen some of my latest challenge entries... I think it's already sterile...
Telepathic commenting sound great though -- really get the individual responses with that. Too bad there is still that sticky problem of implementation. :D
C'mon, how much coding could it take? ...
Well ... while the current top of the line applications have millions of lines of code, they are at best intuitive; not precognitive. So I would say the lines of code count would have to get above that to reach critical mass and alter the space-time continuum -- either that or whole lot faster.
