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As I expected when I posted this thread various opinions and view. I started the discussion as I was approached by several members who felt uncomfortable about comments on the forum due to some concerns about how others might react and some potential hostility. I was asked as a moderator if it was possible to look at the system, no is the answer out simple job is to remove spam and the very occasional person and offensive comments. My way of dealing with the gallery is to start on about the fifth page and work forwards to the current one simply because I hate to miss out on a good painting . I only comment on the ones I genuinely enjoy. As far a multi postings go if I like one I say so but then not to write a comment on each .
Thank you all for your comments I do appreciate your feedback and hopefully it will help those who approached me,
but I’m sure it’s one of those subjects that will never go away completely.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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I don’t have a problem with the four a day limit. Indeed, when I first joined, I posted a few a day for a while, in order to get a little gallery together. I certainly can’t paint four a day (even a month).
When I browse the gallery, I DO look beyond the first two pages… usually up to where I last looked. So the issue of prolific posters pushing others ‘off the screen’ as it were, isn’t an issue for me.
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I'm with Helen on this. One of the reasons I joined POL was to look at other people's work, not just post my own. I have no problem looking through several pages. Like Helen, back to the point where I last stopped. I comment on paintings I like, if there are four by one artist I usually comment on the one I like best but mention the others.
Some people may not have the time or inclination to do this. Sometimes I post four pictures, but I cheat by grouping them into one picture, often sketches that aren't worth posting on their own.
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Agree with Robert and Sylvia. Like Sylvia I hardly ever comment on more than one if several posted at one time - just don't have the time to do comments justice. And yes, do drip feed back catalogue. Find it hard to imagine producing four good works in one 24 hour period. You can of course "follow" your favourite artists so as not to miss their work when it has whizzed off the first few screens. And/or look at their galleries.
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I was one of the people that contacted Paul about multiple postings. I also raised the issue with Dawn.
I don't have an issue about people posting four pieces of original art work in a 24 hour period. However I'd prefer it wasn't every single day. That becomes tedious.
I can't produce four pieces of original art in a day that I'd want to share. I possibly could do it in a month if you include sketches.
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by Andrew Roles
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There is no solution that will satisfy everyone and if would be difficult to implement as the systems would need a overhaul, can’t see tat happening when it costs . I really don’t have a problem with four in twenty four hour, but not all posted at one and I wonder if it’s this that irritates people, a screen full of one persons work. If they were to be spread out then it’s not so obvious, is that the way forward asking people to consider posting at intervals. Lewis mentioned that he cheats and puts four on in one go , I don’t see that a cheating, his work is often done I know originally A3 he crops them to size and they usually link in some way just keep doing it Lewis. I did have a conversation with Andrew and several other people a while ago and again more recently and as I said at the time the only people who can change the ruling is the editors, who do listen to opinions and act on them where and when possible.
For me personally a good result would be to see work more spread out over the time limit, and that is down to the individual posting their work. This I think would have the effect of other gallery users not feeling overwhelmed and their own work disappearing several pages back in a very short time.
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I don’t see this changing! It’s not the volume so much as the quality of some of the postings for me personally.
Four postings using other artists artwork, (albeit they may well be royalty free images), some digitally manipulated, most rather badly, some clearly untouched, is just not in the spirit or essence of the website.
I can, and often do turn out three or four pieces of work in a day… but many of them just drawings and so on, a completed oil painting will generally take me up to a week, drying time between layers being the determining factor here of course!
But I don’t want to display everything that I turn (or should that be churn) out! It would quickly become boring and repetitive!
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by Alan Bickley
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Looking through all the comments the main comments that come up are
1 People who feel that no-one is capable of producing four good paintings in one day.
2 Those who feel that because they would not produce and post four paintings a day no-one else should be allowed to do so.
3 Only ‘Good artists” should be allowed to post four a day
4 Those who are happy with the system as it is
The first three seem a little selfish and narrow minded to me, however there is a solution. Why not hit such people in their wallets, everything else is at the moment so one more thing won’t hurt surely?
If the owners of the site really wanted to reduce multiple postings they could take Elon Musks approach with Twitter and use the ‘Studio subscription’ model to only allow those who pay membership to multi post ....
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Although I, too, really dislike the rate at which the paintings disappear onto the back pages of the gallery, I thought It might be useful to get some data. I checked the postings for 13 April. Not scientific and I may well have got a bit muddled, but I made it 43 postings by 37 artists, mostly single postings. One person posted 2, one person posted 3 and only one person posted 4 within the 24 hour period. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the issue is popularity and very few people do multiple postings. I have to say, I was a little surprised and it is only the record of one day but.....
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For those who feel that scrolling through pages is too much maybe a more frequent update of the two photo strips would allow work to be seen more easily. Out of interest who is in control of these postings, are they a random selection or based on merit, longevity,fielty?
The oldest picture featured currently is a month old, and an excellent sea scape it is.
Maybe these strips could be replaced every two weeks, or simply increase the amount of pictures featured to expand the selection.
That way the user would simply have to move the cursor to the far right of the strip and simply click to view the next picture.
Personally I’m quite sure that even though my pictures never feature in either strip and are quickly swallowed up in multi post obscurity I still have had my work viewed 250,000 times on this site alone. So it’s quite obvious that people are finding a way to look at the paintings no matter how hidden they may seem.
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by Justin Twigg