Proper use of the comment field?

[dlcmh]

Hi Paul,

I think I may just have made a mistake in the usage of the comment field. What I've done for my POTW submission is to use the comment field to thank each & every person who's commented on my pic. I understand that the winning photo is judged based on overall ratings & comments, so is this gonna mess up the judging process?

Thanks!

[STaylor]

It will be fine we will take into account how many of the posts to each photo are ... self posts to thank members ....

[Photoid]

I also noticed that when I look at some of my photos it actually counts me as a visitor in the number of views. Could this be used to "BUILD" your view number??

[sltse]

PhotoID, I've noticed the same issue. Paul, is there anyway to not include our views on our own galleries?

[STaylor]

The total view count is relatively unimportant and but it could actually be a benefit in detecting anomalies I’‚’‚…‚’‚…¾‚d prefer not to say how

And as for the comments when reviewing the final votes it’‚’‚…‚’‚…¾‚s relatively straight forward to subtract the persons own replies ’‚’‚…‚’‚‚¦

The problem with stopping poster a from commenting on there own photos is that they could not answer questions that are very often asked about photos in the comments area ’‚’‚…‚’‚‚¦.

[dlcmh]

--- (nt) means No Topic in body of the post.

[autumnsky]

I'm new here, so I'm just learning my way around. As others have mentioned, I think EXif data is critical in POTW images. I ended up posting EXif in the description field -- a bit tedious, when the data is already attached to the image. BTW, very nice programing and intuitive design on this site.

[STaylor]

autumnsky wrote

a bit tedious, when the data is already attached to the image

I agree and as we continue to make upgrades it will become available .. I cannot however at this point promise a time frame