I will followā¦:rolleyes:
New Gallery Posting Rules - please comment
Aearon
#82
thereās another aspect to all those praisesā¦
often i find myself taking the time to post some valueable c&c - then i look at the thread a day later and after my reply there are 10-15 praise posts lingering around, so my reply which was supposed to help that guy out is literally drowned in this whole swamp of non-constructiveness
so my point is: i donāt think itās enough to leave it to the artist to say if they want praise or not, because it kind of ruins the experience for every user thatās interested in learning and teaching something on these forums
you also have to consider this (this is important ): this "i only want c&c will not work anyway imo, because i think those praisers usually donāt read the text around the pretty pictures anyway (āsorry i havenāt read the whole thread, just wanted to praise your awesome stuff, you are my godā)
i know very well that thereās no practical solution to this yet, as you donāt want to modify the code, and even if youād allow thatā¦filtering out this sort of stuff isnāt possible
i guess you have to place those rules in a way everybody sees them, because as leonard already said - a lot of people donāt bother / havenāt even heard of them (on that new graphical banner? although this might take it a bit farā¦but hey - i guess most serious people in here would take that risk to stop all this drifting away into ā¦ whatever)
UrbanFuturistic
#83
Just a quick note: Iām the kind of dozy sod who only just noticed this thread (yeah, itās sticky, I know) so it might be an idea to e-mail or PM everyone with the new rules. e-mailing would be good also for the occasional visitors.
OKeee, agreeing pretty much with the rulesā¦ although Iām not sure how one attachment only works out for the WIP forums. Mebbe you could allow more if requested (as regarding the wireframes).
As for the porn and S&Mā¦ you guys must be real quick on that 'cause Iāve never seen any :surprised
A good prog for file compression if you canāt afford Photoshop/whatever would be GIMP as it automatically bring up an options dialog including compression level with preview and byte size whenever you āsave asā¦ā
Oh, and to answer a question: 50Kb is actually 51200 (or 50*(2^10)) bytes which is due to the nature of memory addressing.
regards, Paul
xynaria
#84
Very glad in the main to hear of the new more moderated approach as Iād stopped looking at a lot of posts bar the rated stuff cos on 56k you get sick of a slowly opening thread that really only often annoys you. However a couple of points do jar.
I see no problem at all with untextured work and just like most like at some point to view wireframes, I like to see examples of untextured models even if they have been textured, as texturing can cause so much distortion of a model that it make or break it. I always like a reference as to how strong the underlying modelling is and part of showing the work is not just for critique, but surely so we all get to learn from each other.
I have never seen any āpornā or S&M here, but I do wonder where any line is drawn here. Though not so much in 3D(as yet) one of the most prolific subjects in the whole history of all art(s) is sex. I personally detest the word āpornā for all the historical and cultural garbage that it drags along with it as well as itās usage to not deal with issues rather than articulate them. Basically should anyones work submitted be very sexually based would it then be automatically deleted and if so isnāt that a tad ridiculous given the role of art in every culture? 
bored_alien
#85
Iām new here (at least as a member), so I might be way off, but isnāt the real praise in the stars? Seems like theyāre the ultimate thing around here to say, āWow! Everyone check this out!ā It looks to me like a lot of people just leave a quick message so they can give the artist some well-deserved stars. If Iām right, and the replies and ratings are connected, would it be possible to make a way for users to give stars but no comment at all? That might cut down on quite a bit of the problem. You might even consider letting visitors get in on the rating shenanigans, although that could be abused. Hope this helps. :wavey:
Edit: Ha! My mistake. Missed the obvious little ratings option down in the corner while browsing. 
Iāll be quiet now.
floca
#87
Nothing to add, I would just like to thank the mods & admins for all that they do in keeping cgtalk great, while still keeping it free. You guys do a lot of work and quite a bit of it goes unnoticed. Part of what makes cgtalk so great are the admins & modsā¦
dgpilot
#88
well the rules are ok, but your moderators are out of line.
Why was my Demonic character thread removed, huh?
There were 4 images in the post, but they were linked with thumbnails, whats the big fāckin deal man? The rules say you can link the images if there are more than one picture.
Looks like your moderators are on a power trip.
Last time I post in this ridiculous forum. God damn dictatorship.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Fedron
#89
Hello, i 've read the forum rules. And because of that when made my new thread with 2 images i hosted the pictures in my site (If you wish to post more artwork than the limitation above, please host the images on your own web hosting space and link the images) ā¦ well thats what iāve done. But my thread have been removed, were the pictures too heavy? 150kb each? or i made a mistake of some kind i donāt know
Well if somebody can explane it to me, please ?
The name of the thread was Good % Evil twins
Thanksā¦
WarlockXKZ
#90
Originally posted by Fedron
[B]Hello, i 've read the forum rules. And because of that when made my new thread with 2 images i hosted the pictures in my site (If you wish to post more artwork than the limitation above, please host the images on your own web hosting space and link the images) ā¦ well thats what iāve done. But my thread have been removed, were the pictures too heavy? 150kb each? or i made a mistake of some kind i donāt knowWell if somebody can explane it to me, please ?
The name of the thread was Good % Evil twins
Thanksā¦ [/B]
Cgtalk recently had an overload on itās server, some new posts/threads were lost because of corrupted data files. They restored data with an older backup, that means that posts/threads created after the last backup were lost.
Take a look at this thread for more information
lildragon
#91
please take special note to this section:
"Include the type of your image, e.g.
āStill life: my deskā, āCharacter: Major Kusanagi Ghost in the Shellā, āAnimation: Alien Songā, etc. This helps people filter through and only view what they want to. "
dgpilot sorry if these new rules are not to your liking, but we have to maintain a certain level of professionalism on our forums. Our moderators are doing a great job, itās just a matter or reading whatās written on your part. Sorry you wonāt be posting here anymore, but you will miss out on some great crits and comments this bunch givesā¦
salud!
PaulB
#93
erm,
wish iād read this earlier, hopefully the thread I just posted is ok, Title was ācreative input pleaseā I edited the post to read āCharacter: seeking creative inputā but that doesnāt change the thread title out the frontā¦
KingMob
#94
ok dumb question but how can I change my thread title? I didn;t read these new rules, and my title sucks to begin withā¦
I tried doing āeditā on the first post but that only changed it once you click insideā¦ if no way to fix, I will jsut do better next time.
DirectorB
#97
Iām newer here and I finally posted my first thread.
The image appeared quite small, so I changed the format to maximize file size, and replyed. Still it came out small, is there a standard format for posting files that you guys use? Please let me know so I donāt waist peoples valuable time and your server space.
Thanks
Directorb
lildragon
#98
Iām not sure what you mean, the image can be any resolution you wish, so long as itās under 40k
salud
lildragon
#99
I just checked your thread in question, itās your dimensions that are small bud.
salud
DiGItaLL_FR33k
#100
Iām glad to see a site that clearly notes the rules in plain sight and not posted in some obscure location. thx for all the heads up on posting rules, I got a host and everything now.
The only question I have is (although Iām sure this has been covered and Iām just being lazy):
Are we allowed to use copyrighted sources as long as they arenāt going to be used for commercial profit?
I do a lot of backgrounds and or works with photos of celebs, anime characters, and or source photos of architechture that werenāt taken by me. I just want clearification. Thx!