Jacco wrote:I was wondering why someone starts a new topic. To get more attention?
Hi Jacco,
You can start a topic in order to get the attention that you want, the feed back that you need, or the focus that your photos deserve. By adding your photos to the pile of work that has been uploaded in one topic already, you may just seem to be the 13th in a dozen. And to be honest, adding another 10 photos in a list which already holds 500+ photos seems to be just that.
I know of some forums that allow every poster to have their own individual topic for every photo report they make. People who want to show photos from the same day or event just create a new topic with a slightly different title. That way the topic gets the response for the intended photos only. Not too bad, I think, even though the forum may become a bit overflooded with topics.
As for the "Your Top 10 of 2011" topic: It's not the first poster that sets the rules for the rest of the forum, but sets the rules for the rest of his topic. Personally I think that a Top 10 means that you can't make up your mind. A Top 1 or a Top 3 list would have triggered people to think harder about what they show, while now some people seems to be just filling the gaps in order to reach 10 shots.
Tamas, as far as I am concerned, you did the right thing by posting a new topic. I enjoyed looking at them. Please keep posting here, as it's great to see the work from other people that just the Dutch clan of photographers.
Cheers,
Iwan