Request for Discussion [New Forum in "The Gallery"]

[JBHoren]

Just post a thread in the Workshop Forum on photographing razors, with a title like Razor Photos of the Day, how to. Or any title that is relevant and searchable.

The workshop forum is highly read and the most appropriate existing forum. Few reads in the Finer Things Forum. Search photographing watches and dogs see what you get.

No jumping through hoops, research or justifying. Just how would one “provide numbers like how many photography relating posts we have on the site?”

If it has an easily searchable title and of interest, (god knows there are some photos on this site) it will get hits and more will add content.

I know my I phone, and cameras are capable of much more than I know how but, finding that information…

“It is easier to ask for forgiveness, than beg for permission.” And more productive.

For starters, here's "The Gallery" listing of its sub-forums, including numbers of threads and posts. I'll save you the trouble: 12,122 separate threads, for a total of 244,981 individual posts... all of which are accompanied by one or more photographs. Of course, there are other sub-forums that feature their "fair share" of photographs: The Workshop and Razors, to name but two.

I wrote, "For starters," but I think the sheer number of posts with photographs, across a wide variety of SRP forums, ought to be enough to warm even the coldest bean-counter's heart.



TBH, this was not my first choice. Earlier, I logged-in and tried to make an Advanced Search for Posts (single-type search) containing the BBCode [/IMG] -- evidence of a photograph. No joy. Of course, not every URI with an IMG tag is for a razor, brush, mug or shave-related accessory. Nevertheless, even discounting an overly-large 10% of those posts as being of the "Great post!" variety, we're still talking about ~225K from The Gallery posts, and +260K from Razors and The Workshop. Almost 500K posts, with photos.

I'd say the real question is not "if", but "where?"