On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:19:42 -0500, LuckyLu wrote:
> First off let me say;
> I feel rather strange doing this, without Collector, Weener, Katyalover,
> Wintermute and all of the other major contributers around I am not sure
> if I have the right. On the other hand it is something that I feel needs
> to be addressed. In the past many sets have been labeled Custom because
> they have no logo and the exif is present. They are apparently a
> slightly higher quality photo. At my age and with my eyesight. I have to
> take others word on that. Collector in his and Katyalovers index,
> lowered the status of many of these sets to no logo/exif.
> In my personal effort to keep header space and filenames to a minimum
> (an old habit) I have taken that and changed it to xf while custom's
> get a cs in the file name.
> So the point is, what makes a photo set "Custom" rather than just "xf"
> or no logo/exif if you actually prefer that. I would like to leave
> this out for discussion. I would like to open a discussion on this and
> get some suggestions. I will leave this open until Sept 1st 2016.
>
> If no one is interested I will take it upon my self to set a guideline.
> That would be A) was the photo shoot special ordered by a customer B)
> does it extend the regular photo set by a substantial amount. I think
> anything over 5 extra photos would be substantial or maybe it should be
> based on a percentage. I will leave this open until Sept 1st 2016. At
> that point who cares, but I will do as I have stated in all of my posts
> and in re-issue of an updated index.
> Lucky Lu
Hi LuckyLu,
First I'd like to say thank you in advance for your ambitious project /
post. Many years ago a poster named Tatiana began pulling sets from an
anonymous BBS and posting them here. I'm thinking this was in 06 or 07.
Anyway, many of the sets we're duplicate sets that had the xif and no
logo. So after many months of debate the decision was made to rename the
sets as custom. For example; say y012-olga-027 had 2 versions one with
a logo and one without, the one without a logo would be named y028-olga-
custom027. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact convention that was
decided upon,
Just to make things more interesting, some of the non-logo sets had extra
pictures that we're not included in the "normal" sets. It was believed
that these sets we're pre-release and while on the server were never
published for general consumption. My personal opinion is that the
convention of calling sets "custom" when they aren't causes confusion.
However, for collectors, renaming files and or changing the naming
conventions will only bring chaos. I recommend that you use the naming
convention that was adopted by the group as this will make it easier for
other posters to fill in the holes and support your efforts.
Sincerely,
yank
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