well we wouldn't just blanket everyones suggestions with the reply you got for yours, plus if you go back and read your thread i gave the reasons why but i'll explain again....
A sports section isn't out of the question... but as i said before... we would end up with people making threads about how the dont get any responses... and how would you feel only getting 1 or 2 responses for your best images?
The idea of making the forum as simple as possible is to ensure that everyones posts get a good viewing. I for one am not really interested in sports photog so i wouldnt go to a section for it... however if im looking through the general gallery and i see a good football shot, i will take the time to comment on it.
You see, its not that we dont want to create more and more galleries for our own sake... its so that you get the maximum amount of views for your images.
However, the forum layout is under review, so as i said its not out of the question.
As a forum administrator elsewhere I understand this full well. So lets break it down a little and clarify what the thought process is here from an administrative and moderational viewpoint.
Too many forum sections grow difficult to navigate, we all know this, that is why sections are kept as broad as possible.
In order to have individual sections for different facets, that facet must be broad enough to be worth the effort by encorperating several different variations of the theme at hand.
for example:
Sports is a fairly broad subject encompassing Football, Football Americana, base ball cricket, Le Mans and many more spectator sports. This Is likely why it is not totally out of the question.
Structures and monuments, is somewhat broad encumpasing buildings, statues, grave stones, bridges and other man made structures and architectual feats. I feel it's broad enough to warrent concideration even though it may be a little questionable.
Pets can also hold it's own with the shere variaty of domesticated animals kept be they cats, dogs, alligators...ect.
However at the same time some subjects do not warrent their own place despite however much popularity they may have.
For example:
Macro, Macro shooting is only as broad as the distance from your subject. Just because the individual subject or distance to the subject changes, it's all the same. I feel this one is a definate unlikely.
HDR, HDR is excessively narrow. HDR's are problemadic at best, seldom properly exicuted, and often mislabled this could lead to moderating issues due to complaints of inappropriateness and again all the same. I feel this one is a definate unlikely as well.
People, People is also very narrow, no mater how you look at a person they are still a person, This is where I believe the issue has arrisin in regard to the separation of people and pets. Quite honestly I see no where else to put them....
Now I am not (and likely won't be) staff here on TPF, so my point of view is only worth so much and may not to be exact in accordance with the TPF staff, but that is the way I would take these section suggestions into account.
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