Scarcity of meaningful picture comments on PoE

I am as guilty as anyone for not keeping up with POE. Why? No blame to POE. There is so much in "cyberspace" that we all have fingers in many sites. I used to look forward to jumping on this site every evening, but so much has intervened in the meantime (Facebook posts, political nonsense (you think you have it bad in the UK, come to Australia!); so much stuff everywhere. 

Still POE is an oasis of calm in a Mad, Mad world. Unfortanetly I have not been able to contribute any pics, since I have not visited the UK since 2012! 

Hi Peggy, it's good to see a familiar friendly name popping up again. However, I suspect that most of the members who were active a few years ago have moved on to other photo sharing sites. I live in hope that some of the old interest can be revived here on PoE.  

I have also been an occasional viewer, and yes I do post on other picture sharing sites , enjoying being able to view great images. Sadly the quality here seldom matches those images on the other two sites I am a member of. 

It does sadden me, as the images here used to to be far better. Few members then would post multiple pictures on an almost identical theme.  

My honest view is that POE needs to delete the really poor images, and maybe encourage the members to submit a maximum of one or two images a day. This would make the selections more varied and encourage more comment.

In short, more meaningful pictures would attract more meaningful comment.

I would also love to see a more active forum. 

I think that image quality is still important rather than flooding the site with poor images, whatever the purpose of the site is. 

I have just looked at the latest pictures.  

Time for me to go. I’m done here. 

Cheers!  

Having just looked through the 8 pages or so of latest images, I don't think any of them are poor, but that's my own personal opinion. There are actually some terrific shots in there and a lot of interest of a multitude of places across England, which is what the site has always been primarily about - England's many places of historic interest and beauty, shown through photographs taken by people of all different skill levels.  First and foremost the site has always been about the subject matter, rather than the technical abilities of the photographer. That is not going to change, though we do try to keep the quality of the photographs at an acceptable level to most.

We also plan (when budget allows) to implement a grouping system for photos, so if a member uploads 10 of lets say Warwick Castle, then they will be grouped under 1 image within the 'Latest Pictures' section, with the option to collapse the group to show all 10 images, and so on. How does that sound?  We think this will help solve some of the issues some of you have with the number of images uploaded at once.