Too many galleries

[oz]

If a person's main or only gallery is on this forum, I don't see any reason to kill it. I do think that people should have their own gallery, and if they use a single upload website, the forum is a natural place to have that gallery.

Here's an idea though: In the gallery section, have the "What have you folded lately" sticky, and then make two sub-sections: Personal and Subject. This way, everybody's happy, and you get the best of both worlds. You can still see what's the latest and greatest, you can see what each individual folder has done, and you can get inspiration and/or ideas about specific models in the species section.

There wouldn't even need to be that much admin interaction, as the new species section would self-populate, and might be helped along by eager people like karan62.

Thoughts?

[legionzilla]

I see a problem with your logic here... Pictures (besides avatar images and smileys) aren't hosted here on the forum. The pictures you see are pulled from other places: flickr, personal sites, etc. In order to display a gallery of works here on the forum, you need to at the very least have a stockpile of photos on a different site, if not a separate gallery to pull from.

Thanks for proving my point.

They have their photos in flickr, or as razzmatazz says, tinpic, others blogs. Some people don't like the flickr photo limit, but are fine wth the community, andthus save most of their 'not so exceptional works' in other image hosting sites, like imageshack, which i personally find exceptionally difficult to browse (call me non tech-savvy, whatever).

It is precisely because of this immense multitude of image hosting areas which make personal galleries critical. Here at the forum, folders can have their personal galleries along with others, with a large, generally responsive community. Active posters are always imformed of their favorite folder's latest fold.

In art forums, do you see stuff like 'art of animals' or 'abstract art' galleries dominate? Not really. Most artists have teir individual gallery. Though the art of origami has not been largely accepted by the world, we are origamists and artists and thus have the right to have such a gallery on a forum.

[bethnor]

Thoughts?

i honestly think it's making it too complex. when/if people add "subject" threads, i'm sure there are some posters who will then post their images thrice as opposed to twice.

i again think the community should just encourage people to make a thread of their own only if they intend to cultivate it.

[Razzmatazz]

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Here's an idea though: In the gallery section, have the "What have you folded lately" sticky, and then make two sub-sections: Personal and Subject. This way, everybody's happy, and you get the best of both worlds. You can still see what's the latest and greatest, you can see what each individual folder has done, and you can get inspiration and/or ideas about specific models in the species section.
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Thoughts?

Then they'd be posting on their Flikrs, personal galleries, subject galleries, ANDDDDD the 'What have you folded lately' topic.

Really prevents the duplicate posts.