Here's Looking at me.. (Page 3): They keep updating that throughout your 14 hour day?

STVest Loc: LA - that's Lower Alabama

oldtigger wrote:

i would never consider going anywhere but 'newest topics'

They keep updating that throughout your 14 hour day?

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

STVest wrote:

They keep updating that throughout your 14 hour day?

sure, which leaves me 13 1/2 of those hours free to mine the archives for the good stuff while the other computer is collecting and processing images.

gessman Loc: Colorado

STVest wrote:

They keep updating that throughout your 14 hour day?

I'm not sure where old tigger is saying he goes but to me trying to work off the gallery list as opposed to today's topics on the Digest is a nightmare. The Digest has only those threads that are new submissions from a day or so before while the gallery list is run over with threads that can have been submitted any time and at best is a mix of threads from several days. I've seen threads pop open in the gallery list that are a year or more old and someone stumbled across it, comment on it, and suddenly it's alive. I only want to see the threads that were submitted and selected for the Digest from yesterday. They will lay there in front of you for 24 hours while that gallery list is constantly churning with several days all mixed in together and may get 3 pages down after you post on it and then pop right back up to the top and if you work the whole list, you'll soon not recognize threads that you looked at thirty minutes ago but don't recognize.

STVest Loc: LA - that's Lower Alabama

[quote=gessman] I only want to see the threads that were submitted and selected for the Digest from yesterday. quote]

This still begs the question: what is that selection process?

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

gessman wrote:

I'm not sure where old tigger is saying he goes but to me trying to work off the gallery list as opposed to today's topics on the Digest is a nightmare. ..... I only want to see the threads that were submitted and selected for the Digest from yesterday. ....

i keep 400-500 threads open on my watch list so i won't miss updates on posts that interest me but depend on new topics to keep current on new threads.

i use my idle time to root out goodies that had fallen off the map before i joined UHH by using the topic search functions..

Dixiegirl Loc: Alabama gulf coast

Sherry, as far as I know, it's left up entirely to the administrator as to what makes the digest list. [quote=STVest]

gessman wrote:

I only want to see the threads that were submitted and selected for the Digest from yesterday. quote]

This still begs the question: what is that selection process?

STVest Loc: LA - that's Lower Alabama

Dixiegirl wrote:

Sherry, as far as I know, it's left up entirely to the administrator as to what makes the digest list.

I searched the site (but maybe not thoroughly enough) for any description of his method and could find none. Is it: a randomized selection process; whatever strikes his fancy at that moment; intentionally diverse subject matter; his own favorite contributors; potentially controversial topics (controversy sells); every 23rd post? If his selection process is not a numbers game, then numbers will not necessarily have any effect on which contributors are presented in the digest.

gessman Loc: Colorado

[quote=STVest]

gessman wrote:

I only want to see the threads that were submitted and selected for the Digest from yesterday. quote]

This still begs the question: what is that selection process?

I don't have a clue but presume it to be random at the discretion of Admin. I am thinking though that it has to do with geography with the Brits being 5 to 6 hours ahead of us. If you have noticed, usually the Brits are up near the top and then many on the east coast with the rest straggling in from around the U.S. Perhaps you saw where I said that we had two people submit 5 threads yesterday for inclusion today. I missed on that by one thread. One guy submitted 5 and the other submitted only 4. The one with 5 threads had them all in the Digest this morning and the guy with 4 submissions yesterday got none of his in a thread today. It could work out that one or more could get in tomorrow but I wouldn't look for that to happen because they were all four submitted by 10 am yesterday morning. The guy who got all his threads in the Digest is from Florida and the other one who didn't get any is from Canada, Toronto specifically, which is pretty far east as time zones go - just about level with Florida. It makes no sense but then it doesn't have to.

gessman Loc: Colorado

STVest wrote:

I searched the site (but maybe not thoroughly enough) for any description of his method and could find none. Is it: a randomized selection process; whatever strikes his fancy at that moment; intentionally diverse subject matter; his own favorite contributors; potentially controversial topics (controversy sells); every 23rd post? If his selection process is not a numbers game, then numbers will not necessarily have any effect on which contributors are presented in the digest.

If everyone will submit no more than one thread a day except in rare situations that are truly important at a precise moment then there won't be 3, 4, or 5 from the same person to grab for the Digest unless they are saved up for a few days. That would distribute the threads way more equitably as opposed to what's happening now.

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

I like Your moose shots...
but I don't really get what you are saying about the digest and gallery..
I turned off notifications a long long time ago...too many emails.
I have a thread been running a long long time..are you suggesting that is a problem??? does it keep other people from getting exposure? I follow some other threads like this too...and post on them...does that clog things up?
feel free to PM me if you want.

gessman wrote:

I recently caught this ol' guy foraging among some willows by a lake up around 10,000 ft elevation. One of my kids got me a Canon SX50 for father's day so I went out to see what I could find to shoot with it and this was all I could come up with in a few hours on Sunday afternoon.

I'd like to say something to the good folks who post often in the picture gallery. Some of us are probably unaware of how our actions are impacting other members. Several of us are posting 2, 3, 4, even 5 threads in one day, often with only one picture in each one. I would like to appeal to each of you to put all those images you want to share on a given day into one thread rather than putting one image in each thread. There are over 50,000 other members with only about 350 active at any given moment. There are an average of 150 threads submitted to display pictures each day and only 35 selected to display in the daily digest. So, if you submit 5 threads and four are selected for display, that means that there are 3 other members who didn't get their thread selected and their images viewed. On an average there are 4 to 6 people who have 2 or more threads appear in the digest. Like yesterday, there were 5 who had 2 threads selected which means there were what, roughly 120 other submissions that were not selected for display.

Those of you who are submitting and having multiple threads selected each day could stand to share the limited resources with your fellow members. In fact, if you only submitted a thread ever 3 or 4 days it would be more equitable for your fellow members, putting as many images as you desire in the threads you do submit. Think about it. It is the same few people each day and I'm sure you know who you are. Maybe if you feel your threads are so inspirational that the forum would be in trouble if you didn't get 2, 3, or 4 of your thread published in the digest each day, we could petition Admin to open a section just for those pictures the rest of us really need to see each day for our daily inspiration. I know of several good photographers in uhh who haven't been able to get a thread selected for the daily digest out of their last 4 or 5 threads they've submitted. Please think about what you are doing and see if you can't let some others have a shot at the list of daily submissions in the Daily Digest.

I recently caught this ol' guy foraging among some... (show quote)

STVest Loc: LA - that's Lower Alabama

gessman wrote:

If everyone will submit no more than one thread a day except in rare situations that are truly important at a precise moment then there won't be 3, 4, or 5 from the same person to grab for the Digest unless they are saved up for a few days. That would distribute the threads way more equitably as opposed to what's happening now.

But, but, but . . .
The number (there we go with numbers, again) of users is very high -- but no one EVER falls off the list. Even banned users are still listed and included in the count. How many users actually visit the site each day? 500? 1000? At one thread each? Many users observe and comment, but rarely start a thread. Whatever will oldtigger do with all his spare time?

Note to oldtigger: Sorry, man. You may have to get a job.

gessman Loc: Colorado

RiverNan wrote:

I like Your moose shots...
but I don't really get what you are saying about the digest and gallery..
I turned off notifications a long long time ago...too many emails.
I have a thread been running a long long time..are you suggesting that is a problem??? does it keep other people from getting exposure? I follow some other threads like this too...and post on them...does that clog things up?
feel free to PM me if you want.

Thank you about the moose shots. Each morning about 3 am, Admin emails out the Daily Digest and there are usually 35 threads in the picture gallery and some folks have been flooding that each day with 2, 3, 4, even 5 threads to ensure that some of their images get into the picture gallery for view and comments. That practice often yields a situation where one person will get up to 5 threads selected out of the 35 available which knocks 4 other people out of having their threads accepted for display. Often those multiple threads by one person will have only 1 picture in each thread so that basically wastes 4 of the threads and keeps someone else from getting their thread on show and tell.

What I'm saying doesn't involve the kinds of threads you're talking about at all. Carry on! LOL.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Hi Gessman. I am not sure how the forum works and check the Daily in the morning. Reply to as many as I can. I rarely have time to post in the morning because work time always gets here to fast.:) I do most of my posting in the evening. But on the weekends will post during the day. I never try to get in the daily so I don't know why they pick my posts. I am guessing it is just luck.:) I do how ever keep up with my friends( or try to ) with my buddy list. Right now I have over 800 in it. But with work and the kids, I don't do real well even then.

But if you go here it might tell you a little about what is going on. It is the list of the folks that post the most on the site. And most of us are the ones that joined and have been posting from the start of the site.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user_list.jsp

And I am not saying that we are the best photographers on the site! We just like to take pictures and share with each other.:) So we post our pictures to share with each other not to keep others from making the daily.

And I will keep posting my pictures as always. I don't post to keep others off the daily and don't really care if I make the daily! With over 55888 users now the odds of getting in the daily are pretty bad. I think you have to ask who is running that part of the site and ask them. And you can, tell them I don't really need to be put in it. And that is not trying to be offensive, I don't really care.:) Most of the folks I try to keep up with, must have a buddy list too. Because they have me on it and keep up with my goofy posts.:):)

This site is my second family. I wish I could go through all of the 55888 folks and talk to all of them!!! I enjoy the site more than you will ever know. I am other site as well, and this one is the best one I have found that has the best folks on it. We are all friends that are having a good time!
Erv

gessman Loc: Colorado

Erv wrote:

Hi Gessman. I am not sure how the forum works and ... (show quote)

Well, Erv, I don't think you really read what I actually said minus all the fuss that's kicked up since. Oh, and I don't know if you noticed or not but I've been on the site a couple of months longer than you have so I'm not a stranger here. Getting into "the daily" as you called it must not be all that hard when one person can get 5 threads in it the same day like today. At one point when there were only about 20,000 of us, I was on top of the poster's list you speak of and stayed there for several months before I backed up out of the way and let some other folks have a turn at it so I'm no stranger here.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

I know you have been on the site longer. You are on my buddy list.:) But that doesn't mean much when I can't get to all of my friends. Work has had me doing 12 hour days for the last 3 years. So I can't keep up.:(

I did get what you are saying. But don't know how to fix it. I guess we have to stop posting? That does not make for a very good time. And that is why I am here. To enjoy looking at the world and sharing mine with others.

I guess I do post a few threads on the same day. But I try to keep the pictures all in one post most of the time. Like my trip to Traverse City. But that is rare for me with work now. Vacation time is very slim.:(

I guess we have to get to someone running the site and tell them to mix it up a little. I really don't care if I make the daily. As I said, I try to keep up with my buddy list. Then go and see what the others are doing too. I also try to welcome the new folks when I can. And i think there are a lot of groups of friends that do the same thing. They have there list of folks they play with.

I Just looked. I have 46 pages of posts that I have made. And 2199 pages of replies I have made. I don't know if that is good or bad?

But I am not going to stop haven fun. That is what the site is about. Friendships, sharing, learning and helping. It is a good mix!
Erv

gessman wrote:

Well, Erv, I don't think you really read what I ac... (show quote)