Members Using Front Page For [hundreds of]Tournament "snap-shots".

It irritates me the way certain individuals use the front page for hundreds of tournament "snap-shots". Don't they have a video cam? Or...can't you put all those photo's on your own page as a slide show presentation? I feel the photo's section of the Media drop down window...should be for personal and interesting photos...not frozen disc golfer tournament snap-shots. Very boring indeed.
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[ROBEY the one.]

its also easier to bitch about everything! thats what the digital age is all about!

[Ken Long]

I certainly hope so...I certainly hope so...GEEESH!! (Smiling fanaticly).
K.

[Derek Tonn]

I hope that "crying" comment isn't directed towards me. ;-)

Here's the reason I posted what I did last night. I think this is a cool site. AWESOME site! I want as many people to use and enjoy it as is possible! Lots of heavy, bloated images make it harder for people on dial-up and slower cable/DSL connections to do that. Urban areas in the U.S.? Not much of a problem. Rural areas of the U.S. that are pretty far from a major metro or in rural locations in other countries. PROBLEM.

There also are an increasing number of experts in the IT/tech field who are becoming concerned over the bandwidth loads out there eventually causing slower connection speeds for EVERYBODY (too much juice trying to flow through too many or too narrow of "pipes" - although the Internet is NOT a "series of tubes," like that corrupt Alaskan Senator claimed, lol). If we can deliver 576 KB of content in 1.43 KB, we're stupid/irresponsible for not doing it. Not just on DGRUS, but anywhere. Kinda like driving a car at 10 MPG, when a couple easy/affordable fixes would get that same car 20 MPG.

People can party like it's December 21, 2012 if they want to. :-) I'm just saying that we ALL could make this site function better for more people if we just were smarter in the way we upload photos on to the site. Wanna share a picture of your "taco" after hitting a tree? Do it at 500-600 pixels wide and 72-96 ppi...not something we could wallpaper a room with.

[camera guy]

well put derek, and on another note there are plenty of free sites that will allow you to upload pics, some will even pay a percentage of photos purchased. i use photobucket and even then i do not upload everything i shoot as that would be a waste of time imo. by using these sites all i have to do is provide a link to the pics. i might shoot 100 to 300 pics of a tourney but upload 50 t0 80 of the best to get a good variety of players.
i do not post much here much but i do enjoy the site and reading other peoples opinions.

[Ken Long]

I'm glad my "rant" discussion has taken somewhat of a turn into tech. talk.
My main reason for ranting was for the individuals who post like six or so photo's in succession of a discer going through the motions of his drive off the tee pad. Hundreds maybe. Some don't even classify as photo's, but snap-shots. You have the right idea and filter yours. The rest of the photo's that are posted are all good.
As I stated earlier...I use alot of photo's from discers as wallpaper.
Again...interesting tech relationship between you and Derek Tonn. Maybe you guys could start a photo club here (seriously).
Thanks,
K.

[camera guy]

there is one ken, but it does not see much activity anymore

http://discgolfer.ning.com/group/discgolfphotographers

[Ken Long]

Hmmm...alot of members. Must have talked about everything.
K.

[eric beich]

I'll admit, I was a bit preturbed at some of the photos and videos being uploaded at first.

but it's not about what I or anyone else thinks is appropriate, to an extent.

and I dont mind the photos or videos as much now. it lets us know what other friends/members/like-minded disc golfers are all about. which is cool with me. and should be cool with y'all.

we are a community after all. and disc golf is the common glue, but not the be all-end all of what holds us together.

as long as no one is uploading too much stuff that is completely unrelated to either themselves or disc golf then we should find some tolerance, as we must do on the course from time to time.


love people. love. lets find some.

[get your discs and godiscn]

here's a New Years Resolution for me - be less critical of those that have passion for what they do, even if what they do is being a frozen disc golfer shooting snap-shots

[Ken Long]

I started my discussion way back in October of '09. Now it is January of '10. I had completely forgotten about the discussion as it is now old. But new to some I guess. It is January 2010 now...not October of 2009. I may have to delete it.
To the individual who wanted to know how to upload pics. to an album.
Take pictures with digital camera, transfers pics.from camera or chip to a spot on your computer, go to my albums on Discgolfers R.us, transfer pics from the spot you chose to my albums.
If you have disc golf course pics. make sure you put them in from last to first. If anyone has any more suggestions as to how to upload pics. to my albums... feel free to add your comments.
K.

[MonTTy #794]

explain how to put photos in an album and maybe more would do it. Remember any extra effort is gonna be torture to alot of people.