Re: [AGA-Contest] update [54], photo releases, etc

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> Done, last night.  Take a peek at the wording on the site
> under the 
> standalone photo release.


I would change "we will not" to "we can not" It sounds a
little nicer and amounts to the same thing.


Also, you might change "must be signed" to "must be signed
by hand".  That might help a little with the wayward folks.


> Hey, another problem starting to become REAL big this
> year is that a lot 
> of people are now uploading photos with their name burned
> in.  Used to be 
> only one or two.  Now I've had to e-mail more than a
> handful.  I have 
> adjusted the text on the upload message to say "No names
> or copyright 
> burn-ins, please".

Yes, it should be on the guidelines page and in bold print
onthe upload page!


> 
> Got another couple of Hong Kong collages too.  One guy
> was happy to 
> replace the one collage I pointed out, but then asked if
> he could keep the 
> other collage picture?  Not sure what the logic is
> there...  we definitely 
> need to have the ability to include "extra unjudged
> images" next year, 
> because these folks have really done a nice job including
> representative 
> little slices of their tank.  It is a shame I have to
> tell them no.

Hmmm, just have to iterate that it is not a photo contest
but an aquascaping contest.

Otoh, I think it would be fine for folks to submit photos
that they think are really good. Maybe a miscellaneous (and
unjudged) beautiful photos category.

When I taught myself how to write a computer program (thank
goodness for turbo pascal), I soon realized I needed to
spend as much time needed on debugging as the original
coding. Then, I learned about error handling -- whoa, even
more time. *Then* I learned about "what if the user doesn't
do what he's supposed to?" User handling was the toughest
part -- well that and the fact that one  couldn't build
dynamically sized arrays in turbopascal.

Difference here is you are a real programmer and very
skilled at organizing things. But it's the same users at
the keyboard ;-) .

sh

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