PLEASE READ Posting your pictures in other people's threads.

[Dave Ward]

That's fair enough. I never realised that people could get that upset over the practice - I must be a particularly insensitive brute!
Dave

[Guest]

The point is that respect for the forum moderators and other posters is more valuable than being able to illustrate a point by posting a picture.

I still don’t see how it would be disrespectful unless you intend it to be. Could be that cultural differences mean that what I (being Dutch) consider to be a helpful comment, you (being British) consider blunt and disrespectful, of course, but even given awareness of this, I still can’t get my head around people being offended or complaining to moderators about something like this (unless, as I said before, it’s clearly intended as an insult to their efforts).

[Mr Bowcat]

In the interest of the new rules, instead posting a pic I will link to it

https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/46/46ed17b0323e9ed9b863e868c724a4d5.jpeg

:tears-of-joy:

[Ian M]

Judging by the comments I am beginning to wonder if the original post was hard to understand!

Unless you are replying to a request for help on a particular problem, correcting an error STOP IT.
Posting your work in other people's threads is just not on and can be considered intimidating by some or just plain showing off.

I did not write dont do it at all. It says a clear as day if you are not posting as a reply to a particular problem.

[Guest]

Fully agree, if it is to help demonstrate a point of issue then fine, but to blatently show off your work should be met with derision. There are a lot of modellers on this forum that are returning to the hobby and have missed out for want of better words decades of improvement in our hobby, and the last thing they need is for some snot to start blagging their trivial work on their blog. We are here to help each other and not put down the less experienced modeller, after all this is a hobby and not a cut throat business.
And Ian, if the message did not get through then a good slap in the electronic ear will suffice.
Well that's my 5 penneth worth, and if it rubs up the wrong way - do I care - not a jot - you know who the guilty are.
Mike

[Guest]

I still don’t see how it would be disrespectful unless you intend it to be. Could be that cultural differences mean that what I (being Dutch) consider to be a helpful comment, you (being British) consider blunt and disrespectful, of course, but even given awareness of this, I still can’t get my head around people being offended or complaining to moderators about something like this (unless, as I said before, it’s clearly intended as an insult to their efforts).

Wrong.
It is one thing to be helpfull by posting an illustration of your work to show/advise on a technique. But it would not only be disrespectfull but rude and unhelpfull to post an image of your latest AirTamDrag latest offering on other peoples blogs. If you (not you personally) did that on one of my blogs I would rip into the latest shine in your eyes model in the worst manner possible. I like most on this forum accept good criticism as a way to go forward, and if I have made a mistake or missed a point as has happened in the last few days, then I welcome that. But to just show off your latest on anothers blog where is has no real meaning to the subject then that needs no cultural interpretation, it is just plain bad manners.

[Guest]

That's fair enough. I never realised that people could get that upset over the practice - I must be a particularly insensitive brute!
Dave

True, you never sent me flowers for Valentines you brute.... :disappointed:
Mike.

[Guest]

It’s a rule that isn’t in any way automatically apparent, though — as witnessed by the existence of this thread :smiling3:


Maybe it's just my not being English, but why is it bad form to post a picture to clarify what you’re saying without asking for permission first? Do you also, in a real-life discussion, ask “Do you mind if I draw what I mean on this scrap of paper?” when you’re trying to clarify something, or do you just take the paper and say, “Let me draw it for you”?

What you are saying is in the sense of helping is correct, but the issue is that some have been using it to show off their work when the subject is not the issue.

[minitnkr]

Rules is rules & I thought the original post was clear & the elaboration also clear. Oh my, I'd forgotten entirely, so sorry. PaulE

[PaulTRose]

rather than post a pic id say 'i did it differently, if you want to see how i did it theres a build thread on here somewhere'

[Guest]

to just show off your latest on anothers blog where is has no real meaning to the subject then that needs no cultural interpretation, it is just plain bad manners.

I addressed that already in my first reply in this thread, and there’s no disagreement from me in this. What I don’t see is the need for this rule on the forum, on the basis that it’s not something that appears to happen anyway.

[yak face]

Just to clarify things

1. its not a ‘rule’
2. We’re not saying you CAN’T post pics on other peoples threads.
3. it was a request to only do so if it is to illustrate a point and help the original poster and not to show off your own builds

If any clarity is needed see the first two posts in this thread , thanks

[Guest]

What this is about is when people start a thread on a particular subject and someone comes along says, 'Here's one I did a couple of years ago' in large format (a thumbnail wouldn't be as bad) with no other helpful information, the intention being to highlight their own efforts at the expense of someone else's thread. There are definitely cases where threads are hijacked in this way as a means of showing off.

It's something that used to happen to me on another site. I'd start something, posting thumbnail sized pictures as I went along, usually begin to struggle, then suddenly, someone who knew full well that they were a better modeller than I, would post a huge picture of their own work with the comment 'Have you thought of doing it this way?' followed by a treatise on exactly how they did such an amazing job. What made it even more humiliating was the fact that people would then start commenting on his work and not on the job in question.

I don't want it to appear that I am over-precious about the content of my threads, but examples of the above behaviour are obvious and just plain bad manners.

[Guest]

I did not write dont do it at all. It says a clear as day if you are not posting as a reply to a particular problem.

My apologies Ian, I somehow managed to miss that clear distinction. I blame the new glasses :nerd:

[BigGreg]

I posted pictures in others posts... l hope i did not offend anyone...
have a nice evening you all