Please consider the 'sell factor' to help POE

I agree with Ron that the comments and observations made by PoE members are generally intended to be constructive, whether in relation to the working of the site itself or to members submissions.

As for picture comments, it is all too easy to make negative criticisms which might discourage people from pursuing their hobby. Generally, most people receive 4-star or 5-star comments on PoE, which seems to show we are a kindly bunch of people. Personally, if one of my photos has received a comment, I am grateful to know that someone else has taken the time to look at it and make a comment.

I agree, this seems to be the best policy regarding comments. It is pointless to insincerely praise a mediocre image, but posting a negative or unkind comment is equally pointless.

Removing images from POE can actually do harm to the site Rod so my message to all members is please do not remove them. If C&S need to remove them okay, but they will do so in a way that doesn't create damage so please leave your pictures good or bad, because each and every one of them has knock on effects re any information available to the visitor.

And of course they were approved in the first place weren't they? Remember please, this site isn't just about selling pictures, although I can understand that each member is probably critical of his/her own work and probably thinks he/she is helping to reduce hosting costs. That may well be the case, but at what cost elsewhere?

Thanks for understanding

Point taken Ron. Thank you. 

I will take another look at my rejects and if I see any merit in them I will re-submit. I've always only ever submitted a maximum of two pictures in a day, in a real effort to be my own quality control. Maybe my standards have shifted over the years since joing POE. Time for me to "get out there" and capture more Pictures of England.

Knowing your work, Rod, I think you may be a little bit too self-critical. Your photos are always well-composed and interesting. Self-criticism is very deceiving. Sometimes I fall into the same trap. When I look at my photos some time later, there are some which I thought were good at the time and I now see as rubbish, and some others I thought were bad, seem not so bad now. 

Those pictures of yours, which you may not personally rate highly now, are certainly of interest to others, and as Ron says, removing them might cause problems to the site.