Davy Darkrage
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i dont like to be a stick in the mud but considiring the minus side of it:
5-the staff member wich is already doing a very hard job making this forum spot-free will have trouble making sure the photos are APPROVEd<<you kow what i mean
That's the point that I agree with you. BUT, consider this: Our Forums is going to grow; it will get better and have more contents. It can't stay stagnant at this spot. One of those contents is a Photo Album. Other sites have these, and they are not even a public forum, sometimes just a guild forum. It's something that the technology it ready out there, but it does takes our Admins time and effort to do it. I'm not saying that we have to copy other forums, I'm just saying that growth is inevitable. A lot of ppl have screenshots (I personally have 'gazillions' of them, and they don't fit in any category or I don't want to 'bore' you with all of mine). I think it's a good idea to have photo albums that we all do not have to open as forum threads, but they are there if any of us has extra time and just wants to flip around pages.
If course, the bigger the forum is, the more staff it needs - in the future. That's a side effect of the growth and development. So when that time comes, maybe there will be a need to have Mods just for Photo Albums, who knows.
Now in response to your other points:
This photo album worked differently from a 'chat room'. Imagine Facebook, and compare it with this Forums. We have our profile page that we can type in our status and others can make comments on. FB has the same thing too. FB has a photo album and supposedly, we will have that kind of photo album that others can leave comments on. But FB does NOT have a communal forum, whereas all of us here do in this Forums. And in that communal forum, we can 'chat' and 'post pictures'. So our Forums includes FB facilities AND BEYOND. The photo album is not going to jeopardize the existence of the forum itself.
I agree, no personal pictures should be uploaded to theses albums.Well, I really like screenshots! My most favorite part of the forum .
I would like for the albums to be restricted to game only content;
this is a pirates forum afterall, not Facebook.
Just my $0.02.