Just curious guys as you use the thing, asking for a bit of input should not be a crime :small-print: .
I have answered this stuff as well as I can, im not a word smith :cry: if anyone wants a proper chat please PM me for my number and feel free to call me.
Well if it were up to me I would say lets either go for an upgrade of the software here to bring it completely up to date, I think its PHBB.
Or go for a new swish VB forum.. like this
But lets vote on it, as for spark plugs just asking for opinions. Appreciate the input if you use the forum.. im sure people want a say.
Angel take it from me that the forum, photo ads, chat room, video section, will ALL be changed in 2009. We have said time and again that all these changes will happen, I struggle to see how everyone is surprised.
And NOTHING has happened yet, you have 6 months notice of change here.
why cant you specifically put pics int a veiwing gallery and tag them if you want them veiwing on a search. and if you dont then you dont add them and they wont be viewable on a "picture" search....
not sure we would be interested in someone who souly found us based on looking at a picture....
we dont want our pics being veiwed by any tom dick and harry.
yes we know that is the case now if someone browses profiles, but they have the oportunity to read the profile first before seeing any pics.
surely a veiwing gallery on any site should be opt in?
Just went in and peeked at my own profile to see what the fuss is about... Shocked!!! NO WAY do I want others tagging my photos!!! If I want to do it fine. If I want to allow others to do it, then fine to have the option to allow them. BUt here, control of my own images is being taken out of my hands. This is NOT what I joined the site expecting and I think that admin should seriously rethink.
I think you are right that folk usually hate change.
I also think that professional change management makes changes happen much more smoothly.
Swinging Heaven is very bad at change management. Simple announcements would avoid an awful lot of the regular upsets.
to be honest, martin it does look a bit like you're taking the piss, by selecting what posts to answer to and what posts to ignore.
a very simple mail into each of our PM box would have solved the matter had you done this BEFORE enforcing the tagging system on us.
a simple flag to let US decide wheter to leave our pics in public, and in that case wheter to allow people to tag them or not would have been possible.
I've been quite active here in the last couple of weeks...can't say I've noticed many of your attempts to inform us about what was about to happen.
of course it might have happened before
why was nothing of the above done? these things have been asked repeatedly and you have carefully avoided answering them
I do resent the somewhat patronizing tone...but maybe I'm just a bit thinskinned tonight.
just out of curiosity, when you talk about a million members, are you taking into consideration also those profiles that haven't been around in the last six months or more? because I myself have had a profile here for quite some time but only just started using it...
So how does this rating system work then as it was stated that each pic will have to be rated by 10 people.
- is it a best out of 10 average? is it the first, last score?
- do we get to see what our final rating is?
- do we get the right to appeal if errors (or malicious voting) occur?
This really has not been thought through and it's time to think again. I have another suggestion - Admin disable every pic on every profile and then the only way to get it visible and active again is for the account holder to do their own rating.
But that won't happen as it would reveal just how few active members there are on the site and give the lie to the 968,698 as claimed on every page of the site.
There is a section on our Account Pages where we can 'Tick' to recieve Swinging Heaven Newletter etc emails.
Could this function have been utilised?
I have this option ticked, and don't believe I have recieved one email with news of site changes, or requests for my thoughts/suggestions of current site policy.
lp