What happened to RFF ?? Maybe its me ?

Those five advertisers will still pay plenty even with reduced screen real estate. They are advertising directly to their niche consumers.

And the costs to keep the site up are not as much as many people imagine. (I run sites myself.)
 
I know that the post count shouldn't be a big deal, but it is to me. I've gone from a few hundred to THIRTY, and THIRTY - in a year - rather gives the (false) impression that I visit little and say next to nothing. I don't post a LOT, granted, but one post a day attests to more involvement than one post a week. 🙁
 
Post count: I was chuckling at this until I realised mine has gone from >950 to 118.

And yet when I search for all posts by me, the search returns 500 (probably the limit for the search engine). Maybe the statistics part of the software needs to be kick-started again?
 
lynn said:
I know that the post count shouldn't be a big deal, but it is to me. I've gone from a few hundred to THIRTY, and THIRTY - in a year - rather gives the (false) impression that I visit little and say next to nothing. I don't post a LOT, granted, but one post a day attests to more involvement than one post a week. 🙁
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We all know you posted more than that, and won't be fooled by the counter about your involvement.

It is a bit annoying though if you want to use it as a reference when doing trades/sell/buy..
 
I wonder if a clear statement about being allowed to post in the forum for items below a certain value (ie the real bargains that certainly used to, and still to an extent seem to proliferate here) but being expected to use classifieds for anything above that value might be useful. And I think I'd suggest that $10 would be a tad low?

I don't know if $50 might be too high a limit, but it would allow for the cheapest of the bargain cameras to be easily recycled via the forum. Which seems to be what people are after here.

Cheers
Jamie (wondering how many posts he will be shown as having when he hits 'submit'...
 
back alley said:
and the anfsd will be moving to the home page on a trial basis. jorge still has doubts but is open to giving it a try.

nothing is in stone yet but we're working on it.

joe
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come to think of it, if we get ANFSCD in the forum block on the left it should distract people from posting in general discussion where ANFSCD is more apropriate but hard to find. People are lazy, that's why we use computers after all 🙂
 
I still visit RFF most days, but haven't been staying as long as I used to. It does seem to have gone a bit flat, lost its spark. Its almost as if we are all walking on egg shells, frightened to be in the least bit controvesrial in case we run foul of the "rules". Its not a bad place, just not as interesting as it was. Its easy to be negative, so in the spirit of improvement I've listed what I think could be done to revitalise RFF - purely my personal opinion and no disrespect meant to any individual.

Do something about the classifieds - I agree with those that think the old version contributed to the community spirit. I don't have a problem with paying a fee if you don't already contribute (or even if you do contribute), but raise the bar to something like $100 and then a flat $5 contribution after that. Also make it an honesty box approach - most people will play the game. You can leave the new classifieds for sponsor stuff and perhaps encourage more of it from our sponsors. It would then become the place we look for dealer deals.

Ease up on the moderation. I liked Joe's approach which was unobtrusive but nonetheless effective. Who cares if threads wander or go a bit OT or are posted in the wrong place - its a bit like saying that you can't discuss this topic in this corner of the bar - this place used to be just like a group of guys meeting at the local bar and those kind of conversations do wander. Also we don't go to a different bar if we start discussing lenses half way through a discussion on photography as art - it just happens like this in the real world. Moderate in moderation and only if things get personal or nasty.

Give us a film forum, then the digi guys will know where to go to start a decent war 😉

Give us a photography forum where we can talk about photography without worrying about RF, TLR, SLR, MF, LF, digital etc. I do like this place and the people and I find it frustrating to have to move somewhere else to discuss non RF, but equally valid photographic, issues.

Give us a "Mine's better, bigger, more expensive, cuter, more exclusive than yours" forum where we can slag each others gear off in a civilised way🙂

Get rid of the stars - I don't need them to prove I'm better than everyone else😀

Get rid of the ignore function - I think we should all learn to confront our demons😉

Make Joe Friday and Dsang post more - they're usually quite funny and bring most threads down to a level where we can all participate

Ban drinking whilst posting - it may ruin your keyboard.

As frivolity is now taking over from seriousness I'll stop. The first seven suggestions still stand though.
 
Kim Coxon said:
If it is, I'm really in trouble. My count was 0 this morning. Still if I haven't made any posts, I can't have upset anyone. 😀

Kim
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When I logged on this morning you had 1 post - you've doubled that in the last couple of hours - that's pretty good going😀 Anyway you're not allowed to upset anyone😉
 
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