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Not JUST a Virtual Club

Andy Millar
Just to say that since the new forums started with photos (if we want) and real names I for one have found this club has gone beyond the virtual - and all the better for it. I've just had my third IET event this year where at least one person has come up to me and said "Hello, you're Andy aren't you? We've never met in real life" - particularly impressive this time as it was someone (hello Garethsmiley) who lives 3,000 miles away from me! I cannot recommend this highly enough as a way of meeting other engineers. 


Of course, I quite understand that some or many members won't want their photos up for all sorts of reasons, but even then it's still possible to spot names on conference / seminar lists. Definitely another really good reason to join in to these discussions. yes


Cheers,


Andy
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    Andy Millar:


    Yes that point about the photos baffled me for a year or two - not so much getting it on my profile (I don't actually remember doing that) but adding photos to posts has the same odd feature, it feels more as if you're saving them to the cloud than just plonking them into a message a la Facebook (other social media forums are available).




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    Yes when you upload a photo the 'Title' field is mandatory as depicted by the asterisk against the word 'Title'.  As the asterisk is the widely recognised symbol for a field on an online that is mandatory we didn't think that it needed any specific description text against it. We do have a huge amount of photos that are uploaded to the community on a daily basis so I'm guessing that the majority of community members have no issue with it. However, if you feel that it needs to have the added text of  *mandatory field against it then it's something we can ask the suppliers to look at for us. yes


    I'd also recommend when uploading a photo to also make sure you include a short description of what it is too. There are many photos uploaded to the community without descriptions so there's no context for someone viewing the photo as to what it's about, who is in it, why it was taken etc etc. sad 

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    Andy Millar:


    Yes that point about the photos baffled me for a year or two - not so much getting it on my profile (I don't actually remember doing that) but adding photos to posts has the same odd feature, it feels more as if you're saving them to the cloud than just plonking them into a message a la Facebook (other social media forums are available).




    Hi both


    Yes when you upload a photo the 'Title' field is mandatory as depicted by the asterisk against the word 'Title'.  As the asterisk is the widely recognised symbol for a field on an online that is mandatory we didn't think that it needed any specific description text against it. We do have a huge amount of photos that are uploaded to the community on a daily basis so I'm guessing that the majority of community members have no issue with it. However, if you feel that it needs to have the added text of  *mandatory field against it then it's something we can ask the suppliers to look at for us. yes


    I'd also recommend when uploading a photo to also make sure you include a short description of what it is too. There are many photos uploaded to the community without descriptions so there's no context for someone viewing the photo as to what it's about, who is in it, why it was taken etc etc. sad 

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