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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!

Originally Posted by Fox Mulder

I work at trying to make my threads fun and unique. I've come up with themes to make them so. People seem to like my threads, not just for the content, but also for the themes. However, there's a collection of members who add pictures to my threads (and other's threads) that are off theme and frankly, add nothing to the threads. I just had to ask the mods to delete three posts on a thread that starts out specifically asking that members just enjoy the thread and not add their own pictures. The mods have better things to do. I would rather be adding new content than policing my threads. I don't want to be an ass about this, but it sucks to try to do a good thread and have others come along with unwanted off theme junk. It's out of control now, as this happens daily on my popular threads.

As I've said before, this forum is a library of sorts. I'll state this simply. Themes help members find content they wish to view and avoid what they don't. If I want to see women wearing hats, I'll go to a thread that features women wearing hats. If these random guys who post anywhere and everywhere add pictures of women without hats to the hat thread, they delute the thread. I see this as a problem. Others in the community of OCC agree.

There has got to be a solution. Here's some suggestions: I move that we add a forum rule to more easily allow members to close their threads to outside posters if they wish. This may be accomplished by a flag, or a statement added to our signature. Or maybe posters should be required to start threads of their own before they're allowed to contribute to others. If they had worthwhile pics, that one thread would give them the audience they seek, wouldn't it? Maybe in the next software update there could be a photo lock out of some sort...we still do want members to be able to add comments.

Yes, there's the solution that if we don't want guest posters, we can just post in albums. Many don't want to post in albums because of the limited pages and lack of viewership. If the album section prevents others from posting unwanted pictures, why can't that feature (eventually) extend to the main forum or some sort of hybrid forum. Maybe another category could be added to the main forum? We have Hardcore, Softcore, Video, Embarrassed, Exhibitionist, Women of OCC, etc catagories ...how about a section featuring Do Not Add Photos threads?
Members, Mods, Administration...please weigh in.

Originally Posted by Turtle

We can't really stop people posting in any thread the way the forum runs at the moment.
Maybe Admin can limit threads to one poster alone, but they'd have to let you know that. I'd think it could be done, but Mods don't have that power.

Please. Why are there so many "Invalid Albums" ? IFyou accept Fees to make ALL Published Items visible, why are they ALL not as YOU describe ?