A Few More tips for Posting in the Forums

The following guidelines should help to make the forum easier for everyone to use.

Thread Titles

Please use short, but meaningful, titles that explain the thread within a few keywords. For example, rather than making a thread title 'Where to go?' when you want ideas on travelling around Scotland to take photographs, please add a title like 'Places to Photograph in Scotland'

If you're looking for an identification, rather than 'What's This?', make the title something like 'Unidentified Green Butterfly'. This should help members and search engines to find your threads more easily.

Ask a Moderator

If you're not sure whether or not you can post a certain topic, add a link, promote an event etc, PM one of the moderators first, rather than having your thread/post removed. There's a good chance we'll allow the thread, but if we remove a thread, there's probably little chance of it being allowed back again.

Adding Images

After you've posted your images in the gallery or the Image Library, click on the 'My Gallery' or 'My Images' links 

Do Not Feed the Animals

It doesn't happen too often, but if you get into a heated debate with other members, it's some times easiest to just walk away from the thread. We invite members to post opinions from every side of every argument, and so there will always be disagreements. Occasionally, you may even come across a troll who will make controversial posts simply to get a reaction. If necessary, simply report the post and the moderators will deal with it.