Posting photos, whats going on?

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• ME

  Member

  Jun 19, 2009

  Are you sure the file size of the pics you were trying to post were okay?  Otherwise, it sounds like just another glitch in the new server.  Several have mentioned a picture posting problem.  Try resubmitting them and see what happens...
  
  Jen

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• SW

  Swifthawk

  Jun 19, 2009

  I would say that it's either a file size problem (who says size doesn't matter? lol) or a glich on the new server.  Something tells me the switch didn't go as smoothly as TT1 hoped it would. lol

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• EV

  

  Evil

  Jun 20, 2009

  Does this mean I'm gonna get rejected?  I'm new here and just sent in my two photos and am now waiting for my judgement.

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• ME

  Member

  Jun 20, 2009

  [quote]Does this mean I'm gonna get rejected?  I'm new here and just sent in my two photos and am now waiting for my judgement.[/quote]    The new server has definitely caused TT1 some unexpected problems (like the home page freezing up, erroneous new messages, pics not loading properly) but trust that TT1 is getting all the glitches worked out.  The home page isn't frozen anymore, so that glitch has been fixed.  Have patience everyone.  And check your file sizes and resubmit the photos.

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• TI

  

  Timo2009

  Jun 20, 2009

  Just to reiterate what has been said. I just tried to upload a new photo and it came up "Ask me to post a photo". When I reduced the size, it worked find. Apparently the new server has a maximum file size beyond which it can't handle the info.

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• TH

  

  Thomas

  Jun 22, 2009

  I always resize my photos before submitting, mainly because of file transfer time.  My camera software I use to download pics from camera has editing capabilities and I resize mine to 640X480 and cannot tell any difference between them and the ones I uploaded before I started resizing them.  My software has option to maintain aspect ratio so I only have to change one of the diminsions.  This results in a file size of between 200 and 250 K

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• TI

  

  Timo2009

  Jun 29, 2009

  When some of my photos didn't post, I reduced the size and then they posted fine. What concerns me is that numerous photos, mine and others', are being deleted even when they are innocuous things like lightening bolts, kittens, and flowers. Can someone please tell us what's going on, instead of just warning us to "follow the guidelines" ?
  Thanks.

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• UK

  

  UKrudegirl

  Jun 29, 2009

  Well I can't speak for anyone else, especially not the admin here, but I have never had trouble uploading and only ever had one picture deleted due to a 'suggestive caption' which mentioned 'vibration' of a hot tub.  Mind you - all my pics are of me - full body and face - nude or 90% nude and in 'fun' settings, thus conforming to guidelines and pretty much 'on topic'as far as that goes - given that this is a nudist site.

  In his defense I would cautiously suggest that TT1 pays for his server space and bandwidth himself - pictures do use up far more of both those resources than text.  My guess is that he kinda intended for the galleries and personal picture albums to be used for nudist pictures and not find himself paying for unrelated images.  Of course I could be wrong.

  Love n stuff
  Rudie
  xx

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• TH

  

  Thomas

  Jun 29, 2009

  [quote]Well I can't speak for anyone else, especially not the admin here, but I have never had trouble uploading and only ever had one picture deleted due to a 'suggestive caption' which mentioned 'vibration' of a hot tub.  Mind you - all my pics are of me - full body and face - nude or 90% nude and in 'fun' settings, thus conforming to guidelines and pretty much 'on topic'as far as that goes - given that this is a nudist site. In his defense I would cautiously suggest that TT1 pays for his server space and bandwidth himself - pictures do use up far more of both those resources than text.  My guess is that he kinda intended for the galleries and personal picture albums to be used for nudist pictures and not find himself paying for unrelated images.  Of course I could be wrong. Love n stuff Rudie xx[/quote]    Rudie, your description of you pics is very true and I love your pics.  I have only had one pic denied and it was because my head was cut off.  I posted it for fun with caption I lose my head over fishing.  I can understand why it was deleted.  I have several pics that I am not in the pic, but are pics of places I like to go nude and show things  I like to do.  Thomas

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• UK

  

  UKrudegirl

  Jun 29, 2009

  [quote][quote][/quote]Rudie, your description of you pics is very true and I love your pics.  I have only had one pic denied and it was because my head was cut off.  I posted it for fun with caption I lose my head over fishing.  I can understand why it was deleted.  I have several pics that I am not in the pic, but are pics of places I like to go nude and show things  I like to do.  Thomas[/quote]Sure Thomas - I wasn't suggesting anything was wrong with that, just offering a possible theory as to possible picture refusal other than the obvious 'porn' one.Love n stuffRudiexx

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• PH

  

  Philfreeeuk

  Jun 29, 2009

  [quote][quote]“How do you resize photos ?”[/quote]        [quote]If we are not mistaken, the size of a .PIC is based on the number of pixels required. We have successfully reduced them sans any special imaging software by opening the .JPG or BMP file intoMS-Paint, then clickingIMAGE→STRETCH/SKEWand setting both horizontal and vertical setting to 50% (or any other ratio as long as they are equal). You can also re-orient the image by clickingIMAGE→FLIP/ROTATEso that there are more no “sideways” postings. Be sure toFILE→SAVEyour changes before uploading them to TN. Hope this works for you.[/quote]   [/quote] Thanks for that KaiThuy :)   And there was me thinking you just chopped a chunk off 'em!

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• ME

  Member

  Jul 8, 2009

  [quote]I don't know what the deal is with posting photos, but I have a simple suggestion: let the members of TN decide. Basically, what I'm saying is that the webmaster should allow any and all pics, no matter what. Then, if the members of TN are offended, the offending pic should be removed. This could be managed simply by using the "flag" function. If say, 10% of the membership "flagged" a pic, the webmaster would then remove it. Truly, this is a website for nudists, so I know most of you aren't offended by most of the pictures posted. But if there are some people that are offended by certain pictures, then let's use this as a way to get the picture deleted. I mean, whose website is this after all? Shouldn't we be able to decide as a group what's offensive or not and not have to leave that burden up to the webmaster?[/quote]       LOL, okay I see where you are coming from ...HOWEVER....The website belongs to one person, TT1 (site admin), who has kindly developed it and is providing it free of charge to all of us, providing we have the courtesy to follow the guidelines that he has requested so as to maintain the site as a nudist site, not a sex site.  The flagging system is in place to help him weed out the fake profiles, people who are abusing the site, and those who are clearly breaking the intent of the site.  Since this is not a community owned site nor do members have to pay a membership fee, it's not up to the members to decide what is and what isn't acceptable.   You say that you know most of us aren't offended by the pics that are posted because we are all nudists.  Pictures of nothing more than erections and crotch shots and that promote nothing more than sex on a site that is about nudism are found offensive by most nudists that I know.    I can't speak for others but I can say that there are quite a lot of pics on the site that clearly break the rules set forth by site admin that I find offensive  and while  we (my husband and I) don't go looking for them we do our best to help TT1 with the weeding and flag them (using the flagging system that is already in place) for removal when we see them.   I can honestly say that most (not all) of the issues people have posting pics is generally a file size issue and not a content issue.  Unless you are blatantly breaking a photo posting guideline.   It's so simple, people.  You have a guy who got fed up with the other "nudist" sites that were nothing more than or quickly deteriorated into sex sites.  So he started one of his own, a place where people who were interested in nudism/naturism could go without it all being completely sexualised.  Have respect for that or if you can't, then at least have the courtesy to leave the site and go to one of the other sites where this is acceptable!  There are a million out there.   Jen

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• PH

  

  Philfreeeuk

  Jul 8, 2009

  Beautifully put Jen :)

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• SW

  Swifthawk

  Jul 8, 2009

  [quote]I don't know what the deal is with posting photos, but I have a simple suggestion: let the members of TN decide. Basically, what I'm saying is that the webmaster should allow any and all pics, no matter what. Then, if the members of TN are offended, the offending pic should be removed. This could be managed simply by using the "flag" function. If say, 10% of the membership "flagged" a pic, the webmaster would then remove it. Truly, this is a website for nudists, so I know most of you aren't offended by most of the pictures posted. But if there are some people that are offended by certain pictures, then let's use this as a way to get the picture deleted. I mean, whose website is this after all? Shouldn't we be able to decide as a group what's offensive or not and not have to leave that burden up to the webmaster?[/quote]    Suler, I like the idea (and really, in a sense that is how the pic's are currently monitored here anyways, but with guidelines), but without any set rules/guidelines it would never work.  Everybody's opinion on what is offensive and what isn't offensive is different and without any guidelines for the community to judge by, TT1 would be FLOODED with flagged accounts.  Add in the fact that people in the online world are the most opinionated people out there, lol...it would be unimaginable how many flagged profiles TT1 would log into each and every day.  The logistics of it all would be a nightmare I'm sure.  Bottom line is, people need guidelines on which to judge the content they see otherwise it would be chaos.   I do agree with you though on it being our website, because really it is.  We are the ones who make this community what it is and without us it wouldn't be here.  This site was started for nudists who are sick and tired of all the nudist websites out there turning into orgies, we just need guidelines to follow to keep it that way and to keep mob mentality at bay.

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• GA

  

  gator1

  Jul 9, 2009

  Reiterating what Jen said about file size, I'll back that up.  Each of the last two times I uploaded photos, they originally appeared as "ask me for a photo"...then I remembered that I had not reduced them.  I went back to Picasa, reduced them, and like magic they were there.  LOL, I'll probably forget next time, too.

  Also, for you folks that need software to reduce, Google's Picasa (free download) is super easy to use, and has many other functions also.

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• PH

  

  Philfreeeuk

  Jul 9, 2009

  [quote]Reiterating what Jen said about file size, I'll back that up.  Each of the last two times I uploaded photos, they originally appeared as "ask me for a photo"...then I remembered that I had not reduced them.  I went back to Picasa, reduced them, and like magic they were there.  LOL, I'll probably forget next time, too. Also, for you folks that need software to reduce, Google's Picasa (free download) is super easy to use, and has many other functions also.[/quote]  Thanks Gator1, I'll add that to the FAQ's

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• CO

  

  Curt, or Cowboy

  Jul 9, 2009

  For any non-M$ users,  ( *nix ) XV and Kuickview can both resize easily.
  XV simply drag the corner to whatever you like, then save. Done.
  GIMP is not so intuitive, but can also do a resize, as well as anything a professional
  image editing suite can do, and more. ( and free )

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• PH

  

  Philfreeeuk

  Jul 9, 2009

  [quote]For any non-M$ users,  ( *nix ) XV and Kuickview can both resize easily. XV simply drag the corner to whatever you like, then save. Done.  GIMP is not so intuitive, but can also do a resize, as well as anything a professional image editing suite can do, and more. ( and free )[/quote]  Thanks Curt, I've added that one too :)

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• TH

  

  Thomas

  Nov 22, 2009

  [quote]I'm new to this site and am now certified. But I have been trying to post pics and they all have been rejected (nude or clothed). It is very discouraging as I have tried over ten times to no avail. I sent one more picture this morning, this one of a sunrise in Jamaica, and shall wait to see the verdict.[/quote]  I checked your profile and found you had two pics there.  One thing that is commen when you are new is it takes a bit to get your first pica approved.  I am not sure if that was part of the problem.  You didn't mention file size, but now there is a file size limit and if a pic is larger than allowed, it will get rejected.  You may need to resize the pics to make file smaller.

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