The new website - A failure or success.

Michael,

Can you not see that Dave felt let down, not because he was the only entrant, but because of the manner in which his efforts were rewarded. This is another prime example of my point about the behaviour of some IFAS members on this site.

Can I make a suggestion. If you have not got one already then create a Moderators/Admins policy.
Be careful what you put in it though. I suggest you publish it on this site and allow users to comment on your first draft with suggestions. This policy should be a list of guidelines for how moderators should behave and how and when to post. If you like I'll start to write one for you.

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Frank, why are your 2 posts empty.

To be honest, to me it looked like the astrophoto competition died out due to lack of submissions..

To be honest, to me it looked like the astrophoto competition died out due to lack of submissions..

Possibly because the qualifications for entry were ramped up? It all points in the same direction - a desire by those in charge to control the board membership.

Well guys, it's Judgement Day - and the verdict is that the controlling approach doesn't work!

paulevans wrote:

To be honest, to me it looked like the astrophoto competition died out due to lack of submissions..

Possibly because the qualifications for entry were ramped up? It all points in the same direction - a desire by those in charge to control the board membership.

huh?, what qualifications??, I dont know where you are coming from here??, honestly !

I can never remember any images being rubbished on this site but I always respected the fact that this was one of the few forums where people were not afraid to offer constructive critism. This helped me a hell of a lot to improve on my images.

Its a lot better than constantly getting comments like "Superb image mate", "Another great capture" etc especially when the image may have a huge vignetting gradient,a colour bias due to LP or focus issues.

The wealth of knowledge that members of this site have is unsurpassed on any forum I have been on and that will continue despite issues around the sites layout & functions. Its also the only central site which all clubs participate in and should therefore cater equally to all aspects of astonomical intersets.