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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 02:19 PM
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Poll question: Where to host Photography contests on DU3?
Edited on Wed Dec-07-11 02:23 PM by Tindalos
There's several discussions of this scattered around DU2 and DU3. Where do you think it would be best to host the Photography contests?

1) Here in the Photography Group. We could post links in SoapBox or Good Reads to guide people here, with approval from the hosts of those groups/forums of course.

2) In Soap Box, following DU tradition of posting the contests in GD.

3) In Good Reads, another big forum with a large audience.

4) Other. That obvious option I didn't think to include.


Edit: Cross-posted on DU3 so you can vote and vote often.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/du3/1036125
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:19 PM
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1. I'm still deciding if I'm even going to use DU3.
I don't like many features of it, and I may just bow out of DU altogether. But in answer to your question, I would suppose Soap Box would be most appropriate since that seems to most closely resemble GD.

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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:40 PM
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2. It's going to take some adjustment.
I think once we all get used to it, it will start to feel like home. I hope you decide to come over, at least to visit occasionally. This group wouldn't be the same without you.

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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:45 PM
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5. Thanks, Tindalos.
I may frequent only the Photo Group because I know I can't get in trouble here. :evilgrin:

I have issues with all the layers of moderating and jurying and hiding and people being able to see who has them on ignore, And, for heaven's sakes, why does anyone need to see how many times I edited my typos? I thought DU was fine as it was.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:44 PM
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3. Oh no, that wouldn't be good
Is it the Facebook "like" option? Is that a :wtf: May have something to do with ad revenue. I'd love to hear what you don't like about it.

Hope you stick around too.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:49 PM
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6. Thanks, Celebration.
I guess it's just a feeling of sequestration or something, breaking things up into too many subcategories with too many layers of moderation. I'm probably left of a lot of people in control at DU and I tend to be pretty outspoken in real life. Even now I find myself self-censoring a lot on this board. At the new place, I'm going to be afraid to even open my mouth.


But then maybe I'm just being paranoid. :shrug:
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 09:42 PM
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11. I skip a lot of threads
where it looks like I might be argumentative. But at least try it and see how it works out. Overall I think our administrators are pretty good. I have a bit of a conspiracy theory bent myself! :rofl:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 06:58 PM
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9. I hope you decide to use DU3.
Your voice is needed.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:45 PM
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4. Hi, Tin!!
Thanks for the poll :hi:

I'm going to have to think about this awhile, so we can keep kicking this poll.
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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:51 PM
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7. Hi!
Edited on Wed Dec-07-11 03:58 PM by Tindalos
Thanks. There's no rush to decide. Whatever you guys want to do. I just thought I'd see if we could reach a consensus before a contest comes up and we're all scrambling to figure things out. Another option would be to try things out and see what forum/group works best.

Edit: Technically it was SollyMack and others who started the ball rolling and deserve the credit. I'm just following through on their ideas/suggestions.

:hi:





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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 06:53 PM
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8. Thanks!! :)
Soapbox.
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ManiacJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 07:41 PM
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10. I voted for Soapbox, but...
... Somewhere on DU3 I thought I saw some admins suggesting that keeping them in the photo group might be the new expectation.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-11 10:24 AM
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12. It's my understanding that GD and GDP are being combined to create Soapbox
Just a thought...
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CC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-11 05:00 PM
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13. It will be nice to be
able to pin the submission thread & comment thread to the top when running a contest. Would make it easy for everyone to find if the group is moving fast.




And Blue, you can't leave we need you. Actually I would find it sad to lose any more of the group and still miss many of those that have left.







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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-09-11 08:22 AM
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14. As I see it, Polls have not yet been programmed. And the launch of DU3 will happen
before the polling capabilities are in place, according to one of Skinner's threads.
We may be up the creek without the paddle for a while.
We can't do a contest without polls.
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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-09-11 10:49 PM
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15. These are all good points.
There's no rush to decide, especially as Mira points out, we can't post polls yet on DU3. Fwiw, the hosts of Soapbox say we are welcome to post contests there, if the group decides to do that.


:hi:

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