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Originally Posted by Wetmac
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.
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I think you are highlighting the reality that OCC management is trying very hard to ignore - that since about 2009, the paradigm has shifted on the web. The websites that have gained huge traction since then are sites that allow virtually no nudity, sites like Facebook and Instagram. Does Webshots even still exist anymore? I haven't been there since probably 2010. Does anyone post nude snapshots in public view on Flickr anymore? Not many, from what I see.
Every once in a while I come across an interesting find on the web (there are still some out there); I think about possibly posting some of the images, then I remember - oh, if I post it it will be reposted by another OCC user a week later and he will get over a hundred thanks for it. While I got fifteen. E-I-E-I-O.
I think if you are the champion for reposts of reposts of repost images originally from 2006 with 800px on the long side, you may be a part of the issue. Pretending to ignore ten-plus years of sea-change on the web seems... well... strange, at the very least. Nothing changes here; the forum is divided up into the exact same five topics up on top that it was in 2005 when I joined. Yet everything on the web has changed. I don't remember a change being made to the forum software since "likes" were added, probably about ten years ago - in a web world where things change monthly. And you say to me "frankly you are part of the problem and not the solution." You won't even consider a change - and get seemingly combative when it is suggested - yet I am the problem? I honestly don't think so.
I have lots of ideas. But someone needs to listen to them. You don't wanna hear them? Okay fine. But you can't have it both ways, in saying "The reality is that new completely unseen images are rare" and then castigating me for not seeking out this non-existent new content.
Next issue: "The forum would likely cease to exist if we relied on images or videos posted by the photographer himself." You couldn't be wronger on this score, but I think that's the result of living in the huge circular reference that OCC has become. I have over 10,000 art and glamour-nude images taken over the past eight years, the huge preponderance of which have never been seen anywhere on the web. I create more almost every month when Covid is not raging. Most of the nude images that I had posted elsewhere on the web have since been taken down. The images are hi-resolution with mostly high-end production values. And I have full rights to do with them as I see fit. There are tons of opportunities along these lines, as I know many other photographers in the same situation. It's just that this material is incredibly expensive to produce, especially on an ongoing basis. Getting content like that for OCC would require thinking outside the very small OCC box though.