Originally posted by aslyfox I don't understand
are you saying not to post a photo?
why does the forums exist then
I am saying that I am hearing two complaints about commenting on old "unloved" {comment count = 0} photos
(1) If you comment on a photo that was on page 501, that moves it from page 501 {where nobody notices it} to page 1, which pushes each photo already on page 1 down a position, and the last photo gets pushed to page 2. If a person comments on 280 "unloved" photos, then a photo that started off on page 1 ends up on page 8.
(2) If you comment on 280 "unloved" photos, people doing other things elsewhere on the site notice that their requests bog down a little, because the server is kind of busy.
If you eliminate those 280 comments on "unloved" photos, those problems are alleviated - but total post count also goes down, and no one receives a K-1.
What I was saying is that having 280 people each post a new photo does bring the post count back up, and maybe someone does receive a K-1, but it does not "fix" either problem.
(1) The 280 newly posted photos will still come ahead of the photos that had been on page 1, and those photos that had started on page 1 will still end up on page 8.
(2) The server will be very busy creating these extra threads, and users trying to do other things elsewhere on the site will still see their requests bog down.