Forum Changes 2 - It's Very Long But Please Take The Time

LarKat · May 27, 2019

Steve, I have been a member since 2007. I have always found this site to be very informative, and when I needed help on some of my BBG and TTR trips, you were there to give a hand.
As the Administrator of this site, you have been spot on with needed rules, edits, and exclusions of threads and people who are just nasty.
I support your changes 100%
Thanks

Zach o · May 28, 2019

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Photo Rules

I will also be introducing photo restrictions. If you have read above the reasons are self explanatory.

From now on all photos uploaded will not appear until approved by an Admin. Which is either Jannet or myself.

We do already have rules posted next to the upload button, but guess how many people ignored them anyway? About 60%.

This is a huge extra burden. I really don't want to be spending time approving pics one by one. But if people wont follow the rules voluntarily there's really no other option. Please read the rules and dont upload pictures that contravene them. It may take some time for your pic to be approved, but if it is not I'm not getting into a to and fro about it with you. If you persist I'll just move you to a special usergroup that cannot upload pics or view anyone elses.

Rules on the upload page state:

No nudity including topless. No sexually provocative pics such as close ups of boobs, ass etc.
No pics where the head/face has been deliberately excluded or hidden.

Nudity and topless is self explanatory. Includes those who put a tiny star or blur over a nipple. Really guys?

Sexually provocative pics. We wont approve pics where the intention is to deliberately draw attention to boobs or ass.

Excluding head and face. This is my pet peeve. If you dont want to show your face why would you want to show the rest unless it was to invite comments and likes about your or your wife's body. Would you put a headless pic in a frame in your house? Of course not, don't put it on here either.

Thongs and small bikinis are part and parcel of TTR and not a reason to be unapproved. But just be tasteful about it.
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Do we get a notification if our picture was denied? I have never tried to post media until now so just wondering.

CentralFLCouple · May 28, 2019

Steve, Part of the problem with photos is self-induced by this forum software or the settings you are using. For example, we only show our albums to others we follow. Yet, if we post a new pic it is freely viewable to ANYONE if that user clicks media. Same is true for users not logged in and the search engine. So if you "really" want to cut down on porn and unwelcomed links. you should not allow anyone to view a photo unless they are logged in (thus blocking all crawlers & search engines) and adhere to the individual user's preferences. So if my photos are hidden from all users except those we follow, then a new photo post SHOULD NOT appear to the general public if they click "media". We used to show our faces until we found out our photos were being taken from here and appearing on other websites. Again, due to the fact that photos are freely downloadable by anyone and any scraper/crawler/bot.

Steve · May 28, 2019

Zach o said: ↑

Do we get a notification if our picture was denied? I have never tried to post media until now so just wondering.
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I'm not sure if it sends a notification or not, if so it will show under 'alerts'.

Steve · May 29, 2019

CentralFLCouple said: ↑

Steve, Part of the problem with photos is self-induced by this forum software or the settings you are using. For example, we only show our albums to others we follow. Yet, if we post a new pic it is freely viewable to ANYONE if that user clicks media. Same is true for users not logged in and the search engine. So if you "really" want to cut down on porn and unwelcomed links. you should not allow anyone to view a photo unless they are logged in (thus blocking all crawlers & search engines) and adhere to the individual user's preferences. So if my photos are hidden from all users except those we follow, then a new photo post SHOULD NOT appear to the general public if they click "media". We used to show our faces until we found out our photos were being taken from here and appearing on other websites. Again, due to the fact that photos are freely downloadable by anyone and any scraper/crawler/bot.
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Privacy options are configurable for each album. Every pic you add should be to an album. The ability to show the album to people you follow only or no one at all (private) are included in the options. I'm not responsible for incorrect privacy option settings, that's the member's responsibility.

One of the changes I made is that pics are no longer indexable by search engines. You can verify that in the source code if you like.

As for showing pics to people not logged in if they click the media tab. That is true if albums are set to public which is the default.

I actually want people to see what Temptation is like. That's the whole point! The media section isn't intended to be a swingers catalog or some dropbox /icloud photo storage system.

In any case registration is free and open to anyone, I can't see how requiring people to log in to see pics makes any difference.

To "cut down on porn and unwelcome links" My logic is we don't provide options to hide such pics away, we don't allow them at all.

dikfore · May 29, 2019

Great info Steve!

I may pick your brain a little in August. I'm trying to learn more about directing traffic to my sites..

Chris N Sue · Jan 3, 2020

Great site. Much appreciated. Keep up the amazing work. Cheers

BluegrassCouple · Jan 7, 2020

Thank you Steve! This site has been most helpful in helping us learn about Temptation and book our first trip in April.

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