The moderators have a request regarding pictures in the NaPo forum. We ask that whenever possible, you would exercise constraint. There are multiple reasons for this. First of all, pernicious degrees of pictures can make pages hard to load (and we don't all have the top-of-the-line, stream-your-Netflix-here internet service). And, the poems are harder to find, at least until they're indexed. It's all about the poems, after all. We've even had an instance when a picture was handing out a virus in the past.
Nextly, while everyone enjoys conviviality, not everyone wants someone else's picture choices taking over their thread. In fact, this listening ear has heard some grumbles.
Lastly, pictures are rather big files, they take up more than their share of data base, and current site glitches, not to mention the ghost of the 2012 NaPo site fail have still got us nervous. No, more than nervous. The site has been doubling posts, and I know I'm getting all kinds of "confirm navigation" and other type error messages. If everyone had a clean-up party and say, removed a sizable chunk of the pictures they've posted, we might get through this NaPo with out having the whole thing plunging into a cyber black hole.
We don't want to ban pictures from the NaPo forum because that would prevent ekphrastics, but we would appreciate it so, so, somuch if moderation was used in this area.
If we saw a very large change in picture posting quantity from here on out, the possibility of opening the 2016 NaPo forum a little earlier might even get considered, no guarantees expressed or implied. Just sayin'.
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Originally Posted by HowardM2
