What happened to the Snake Pics thread?

[Ophiuchus]

Jason,

For each member, there is an option to create different albums within their gallery; i.e. one for herps, one for birds, one for nature, etc...however they want to do it. Personally, I don't think its that difficult to do. Its just a matter of people being lazy and not organizing their photos in this fashion that leads to your frustration, Jason. If more people did do this, you could be rest assured you could see every pet they have by viewing their member gallery regardless if you happened to miss their threads. IMHO, its a win/win situation; people can upload their images all at once and have them in one location (i.e. their user gallery, which, again, is what its for) without having a bunch of picture threads taking up space in the forums.

Maybe I'll revamp my gallery for your benefit this afternoon.

 

[jason longboard]

Jason,

For each member, there is an option to create different albums within their gallery; i.e. one for herps, one for birds, one for nature, etc...however they want to do it. Personally, I don't think its that difficult to do. Its just a matter of people being lazy and not organizing their photos in this fashion that leads to your frustration, Jason. If more people did do this, you could be rest assured you could see every pet they have by viewing their member gallery regardless if you happened to miss their threads. IMHO, its a win/win situation; people can upload their images all at once and have them in one location (i.e. their user gallery, which, again, is what its for) without having a bunch of picture threads taking up space in the forums.

Maybe I'll revamp my gallery for your benefit this afternoon.

I know what your saying,I just think you would still have to go and randomly guess who's pic gallery to look at.Im sorry for causing trouble if any,it just seemed cool before to have it all in one place from everyone.Peace out.Guess I just wont be happy with the decision but evidently the majority ruled.Thanks for the concern.

 

[varanio]

Jason if youre so frustrated with the way the pictures of snakes are being cluttered simply start an informative thread with pictures, and I will be more than happy to post it in a species profile type of sticky, but the conditions are that it remain informative....ie a profile of the animal habitat and diet. That way we kill two birds with one stone and people enjoy pics while they enjoy information on how to take care of the animal. Which all ties up to the discussion we had about making this a more informative area since there are alot of people here that come to get answers.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I dunno....my main complaint with the old threads wasn't the pics themselves (dont get me wrong, I like to look at pics too), but;

A.) Personally, I want to look at pics of other snakes besides ball pythons. It seemed like for every 5 pics of a BP, there was only one of another species. I'm sorry, but I get bored with ball pythons really quick. Now, some people may be different and prefer to look at other lizards besides bearded dragons and leopard geckos. See what Im saying

B.) I also had to scroll through comments of each image, which there coulda been 3-10 for each one. Thats partly what contribruted to the threads' excessive length. That gets old, too.

Now...going along the lines of what Varanio was saying....maybe just a more generalized picture thread? For example: Boas & Pythons in one, Cornsnakes & Ratsnakes, Kingsnakes & Milksnakes, other snakes, Geckos, Dragons (bearded, water, etc), Other lizards, Amphibians, Aquatic turtles, other Turtles/tortoises, Crocodilians, Inverts. Of course, if we go that route, we have the same problem as before, which is a freakin' lot of stickied threads.

I'm not 100% opposed to this idea, but we already have a sticky with articles, caresheets, etc. If another picture thread was started, I suggest prohibiting all posts that did not contain an image to cut down on the length and increase the ratio of substance.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I know what your saying,I just think you would still have to go and randomly guess who's pic gallery to look at.Im sorry for causing trouble if any,it just seemed cool before to have it all in one place from everyone.Peace out.Guess I just wont be happy with the decision but evidently the majority ruled.Thanks for the concern.

Well, I guess I don't see the difficulty of it. There's not that many active members here in the Reptile, etc section that it would take you that long to view everyone's gallery. Of course, this is providing everyone starts using their gallery.

I can't speak for anyone else, but it took me less than an hour to create 5 albums and upload all my collection into their respective locations. No matter where I post, you can always click the "Personal Galleryright under my avatar and view my pics anytime you want...even if you missed my latest 'new snake" thread.

Another advantage (to me anyway) was that it was easier to upload a larger number of images at one time, as opposed to, in a post, having to access your photobucket account, and copy/paste the img URL...one by one for every image. Very time-consuming if you have more than a few pics. Just my extra $.02.