Amateur Pictures - Reposts

dear mods and fellow members, i was wondering your thoughts on making designated amateur threads where all ama pics go (mandatory). i see reposts every day and even cases where the pics from the single threads are the same codes as the mega thread. IMO this stuff is taking up a lot of room on the "front page" too on some days. it seems like at least half of the time, i recognize a single set from one of the bigger threads (there was that one case i complained about where i think i've seen a girl 5 times on here in different threads). i guess a problem will always exist since you can't really search since descriptions are inherently vague, but i still figure it's more controllable in a few threads rather than the barrage of them. anyway, just thought i'd bring it up. thanks!

 

Tka, without you this place would FALL APART!!!!

 

You can count ME in as one of the mods that would support such a sollution. Sancho & .jp have two very good am threads, and they should be allowed to continue to operate them without issue. All other amateur posts "should" I believe be put into maybe a third thread for all those that want or feel like they just have to post more pics.........if they choose not to post in one of the larger existing threads. I'm pretty sure neither Sancho or .jp would mind if they add "NEW" pics.

The biggest issue as you stated is verifying "New" pics as most of the amateurs do not have names associated with the pictures, and those that do are often ficticious names or have been changed as they circulate around the net. I myself posted a bunch of pics in Sancho's thread with some girls name (don't remember now), only to find out later that it was our very own Tisha :?

 

Sorry Tai, I know......just the two biggest examples I could think of at the top of my head.

And thanks for the poke about the reposts :roll:

 

well, yes. but that doesn´t mean it can´t be discussed again some day when there´s need...

:2cent:

this is not alone a "specific" amateur-issue, imho.
there are lame titles, no-effort, reposts, no matter of "am" or "pro".
if anyone needs examples for "pro-content" threads in this context... ask. this isn´t meant to expose anyone, but there are more than enough.

afaik i´m not the only one being "anal" when it comes to titles, effort, "quality"...

nevertheless:

monitoring one big thread is as hard/tough as many individual ones.
advantage: a less "littered" forum

splitting the model-forum (and the vid-mania aswell?) into AM and PRO needs a borderline. where to draw? who to determine?

reputation, especially for the ones who are at their beginning of a prosperous PHUN-carreer, is depending on own threads. contributing to existing threads is not as much noticed and thus appreciated by the membership as starting threads. at least this is my observation. so i can understand why trying to ask or convince folks to add content to existing threads is quite unsuccessful.

there are times PHUN is very vivid. lots of new threads, many get lost, many of them underservedly. that´s one of the reasons there have been a few discussions, started by Sandino, about a possible split of the celeb-forum into paparazzi/candids vs glamour/photoshootings. wouldn´t mind to have a similar discussion about the other forums also, well knowing about the difficulties.

 

everybody has valid points. reducing "litter" is the main advantage to a few amateur threads as Riv stated. also the point was made that it's a quality issue. it's just lame to see post after post of titles like "NN amateurs" and "amateurs with nice bodies" (2 titles on front page right now!), then you open the thread and see it's the same pics in sancho's thread from 3 weeks ago (or worse--3 days ago) and it's the 3rd time you've seen them. well Tai, i'm also glad you check most ama posts and don't see a big problem. i think it's a bit of a problem but i do think ama threads get away under the radar way more than paysite stuff. understandably so because of their nature. if the only advantage here is to reduce litter, then i'm still all for a designated several threads (even 5 threads) rather than the mess it is now. ama posters tend to do many threads at once, sometimes with only a few pics each, and it's just taking up a lot of space sometimes, bumping fresh high-quality content down to lowly pages where they get less of the attention they deserve. amateurs is a BIG category, so maybe we should make it a category via specific threads or an ama subforum. :2cent: thanks for the replies!

 

just a note, btw.; don´t expect any input from those who might be affected the most.
they are probably the one complaining afterwards instead of helping to find an adequate solution.

just one of the things i´ll never get

i´m far from requesting to ban that kind of content - although i do have some personal problems with "random beach hotties" and such.

• age of the "models"

• "pro" and self-posted "am" is fine, but... i have problems with ripping myspace-profiles etc. and posting that here. (don´t know if you would like to have your sister´s or anyone else´s pics you know and care for posted here...)

 

so we had some good ideas here. do you guys think its better to go the extra subforum route or designated threads in "models" route? i kind of like the Amateurs subforum idea. Amateurs, like i said, is its own category and should be its own forum. obviously, they aren't "models" per se. think this would be hard to implement and have people comply with?

age of models is something we can not verify basically ever... dunno any way around that other than banning amateur pics, of course (which i am against... i'm just trying to tidy this place up)

as for myspace and whatnot, that's inevitable. hopefully "your" sister is smart enough to not put pics worthy of porn board amateur threads online... that's my thought on that. it's fair game otherwise :2cent: