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Originally Posted by jim914109
Fox Mulder:
Right now I see the two biggest issues/problems here at OCC to be:
1) Users don't honor thread theme and routinely post off-topic material. That totally deters me from starting a new thread - the thought of it being almost immediately corrupted by off-topic material stops me in my tracks.
2) There are several mass re-posters here who take anything original you may have found and repost it - sometimes within days. They get 100-plus thanks in comparison to the fifteen you yourself got. What's my incentive for working to find something original?
I used to be a regular contributor here, scouring sites like Flickr finding new material. New material doesn't seem to be appreciated at all anymore - not when warmed-over, off-topic reposts get over a hundred thanks.
In addition, I'm finding users trying to pass off pro art-nude model pics as amateur finds on almost a daily basis. One was an image of an art-nude model I know personally and who I'd shot myself; the poster tried to pass her off as ENF! ENF? She was the least wary model I'd ever shot - she walked around naked for an hour here in the local greenway trails, even after a hiker had come down a parallel trail with 20 feet of us within five minutes of the start of the shoot. ENF my ass!
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The reality is that new completely unseen images are rare. The forum would likely cease to exist if we relied on images or videos posted by the photographer himself. Personally I give little thought to getting 'likes' for posts I make on an internet forum. Frankly life is too short to worry about the small stuff.
If, As you say you are not enjoying the forums and making no worthwhile contribution to finding and posting new content, then frankly you are part of the problem and not the solution.