Calif_Sue said:You can always go to your profile page and click on threads you have started but anytime someone posts to it, it goes to the top of your Home page so always start on the Home page for any updates.
Amazindirt said:Update: Somebody deleted the post I wrote above from where I initially posted it (over in the Welcome and Help Forum), so I went looking for an answer in other forums and ended up here. And surprise, surprise, I see that my question actually got moved over here, but nobody bothered to tell me anything about moving it.
And I'd like to make an additional request -- if site admins are going to move posts around, could you please at least let the OPs know that their posts have been moved, and where? That would sure alleviate a lot of confusion, not to mention hard feelings!
Frillylily said:
Yeah, they work like that around here.
If they don't like the place you put something, they just move it wherever they like, they don't tell you.
If they don't like that *they* think a topic has went off topic, they just rearrange your posts and create a new one and move people's posts there. At one time they deleted/erased a whole forum, so everything I had posted/saved there was lost. If you point out incorrect information in the database, you get your head chewed off, no matter how you do it-you will go about it wrong. I now add new plants to my own list, instead of adding them to the database as a whole cause I just didn't want to deal with it. Also in some forums you have to use correct terminology for the parts of plants and that sort of thing or your comments get corrected/deleted. I pretty much quit posting in the daylily forum for this reason. I don't think it is inclusive to new members especially. I quit adding anything to the database unless there are no photos at all for a particular plant and I need a photo to show up in my plant list.
Frillylily said:You can't even go back and delete your OWN photo. I added some photos that later I had taken better ones of and would have liked to delete the older ones and add the newer ones. But couldn't.
plantladylin said:I too have been confused about the database category for documentation. At first I wondered if it's use was for text only but then I noticed some really nice photographs of botanical drawings in that category. The word documentation had me looking up it's definition and I guess there can be two different interpretations, one for written text and one for photography.
Written Documentation:
Material that classifies and annotates text, photos, etc.
Material providing evidence to substantiate data in a book, article, etc.
Material used to describe or explain attributes of an object.
Material recording facts relating to a subject
Photographic Documentation:
A narrative or story told through photographs
A factual record or report (sometimes complimented with text)
A photo used to chronicle events
A photograph documenting the appearance and condition
Whenever I enlarge a database photo, I don't really pay any attention to which category it's in but I think it's really helpful to see photos that show the details of a plant grown in different lighting conditions.
I'm not sure if there's a way to indicate in the database exactly what should be uploaded to the documentation category but it might be helpful to members so they don't erroneously upload photos to that particular category and it would also make less work for administrators who have to move images to a different location.