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Name mixup on photo of the week
I notice that the photo of the week has my name attached. I didn't take this image. I didn't enter the "Death" competition. I believe the person who took this is dmkonlinux... Please correct ...
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Clarification about affiliates
I would like to get clarifications about remarks in answers, related to affiliate, TINLA, IANAL and so on. Are they mandatory or just optional?
Here is the Q/A which confuse me.
P.S. By affiliate I ...
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Can a new user downvote answers, and is that flagged as question activity?
On the main photo.stackexchange.com page, I see a list of Top Questions, ordered by activity. Today, I noticed a question in the list that I answered back in 2018:
Where can I find the old (free) ...
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Why was the 2020 Election Nomination Period Extended?
The nominations were supposed to end today (June 22th), but they have been extended for another week, why?
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What resources is Stack Exchange dedicating to meeting the needs of Photography Stack Exchange?
It's been more than six months since this post promising
Generating revenue from non-technology sites will enable us to dedicate more resources to meeting your needs so this is good news.
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Stack Exchange employees: somebody do something about the contest
We're at the point where low-quality entries which did not even follow the contest rules are being selected as winners. We had a proposal with some energy behind it, but a moderator shot it down ...
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Where to ask color-related questions if not in Photography?
I have asked a question related to technical details of the CIE Yxy diagram in Photography, and I was asked to go to another forum. However others have asked similar, and most of all, I don't see a "...
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Why is money.stackexchange.com the top referring site?
I was looking at the site analytics (available to 25k+ rep users), and while I'm not at all surprised to see that 95% of traffic comes from search, I am surprised to see that of the top non-search ...
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Contest is definitely dead. Now what?
So.... we had an idea for revitalizing the contest by moving it to the main site but the moderators (who of course need to be on board for it to work) didn't like it.
We've had plans to inject some ...
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How bad does it have to be before the "special deletion" clause is invoked when a user is removed?
Why do I have a reputation change on my reputation page that says 'User was removed'? Includes the following:
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a very high ...
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Should we elect an additional mod specifically to help with the contest?
In the discussion on refreshing the photo contest, current mod @MikeW says:
Available mods. There are periods when one or two mods don't visit for a week or more. I try to keep the "weekly" contest ...
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Are framing questions on topic?
I have a question about mounting physical photographs in frames. Is that on topic here?
I'm doing the framing myself and I can also probably put it on Arts & Crafts, but I'm curious if it works ...
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Image contest submission
How does one submit an image to the weekly photo contest? Is there an upload button to click? or do you submit a question containing the image? (that would not make sense to me).
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Request: rename site to "camera-gear.stackexchange.com"
This site's charter claims that the following are on topic:
photography
photographic processing or retouching
using photographic equipment
techniques and best practices
history of photography
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Are upvoted comments auto removed?
It is my understanding that the automatic systems on SE can delete comments for housekeeping reasons.
But are comments with upvotes (or highly upvoted comments over some threshold) deleted in this ...
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"Image of the week" is causing mixed content error
My browser is reporting mixed HTTPS and HTTP content on the main site because the "Image of the week" in the header is HTTP:
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How can I also show the people see a big version of the photograph I send in?
If I send in a photo to show, I see many examples of photo's of which you can also let the people see the big version of your send in photo. How can this be done?
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How to know how many members a certain stackexchange communitiy has?
How to check how many members a certain stackexchange communitiy has?
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Why does the meta community user not have the Stack Exchange logo as the profile picture?
Why does the meta community user alone have the photography site logo as the profile picture? In Photography main site's community user has the Stack Exchange logo.
In all other Stack Exchange sites, ...
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Main chat room has been frozen
The main photography chat room has been frozen after only 24+ hours of inactivity. Does anyone know why? The general information at SE says 14 days of inactivity will freeze a chat room.
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Image of the week: how to see more info?
I think the image of the week is great, and I often see an image that I would like to know more about, or see in a larger size. I expected that clicking on the image would take me to the original ...
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Is there any way we can migrate an old but good question?
Why does my Canon DSLR stop recording video automatically? is a good question with good answers - but is now definitely off-topic here as it's purely about video. It seems to be this would still be a ...
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When does the accepted answer NOT show at the top?
I Just ran across the following question which has 8 answers. The accepted answer received 7 upvotes. Two other answers received 23 and 14 votes respectively. Even when the option is set to display ...
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Can I see all my deleted questions?
There is a question I want to ask on Photography Stack Exchange, but I have a vague feeling that I might have asked it already a long time ago and it was closed and automatically deleted. Or I am ...
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Can I ask about how to develop this specific photograph?
I am extremely new to this SE site and I have not been on SE for a while in general, so I kind of got out of the SE 'habits'.
I would like to know if questions, typically 'How did they develop this ...
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Why am I suddenly a UUID?
I've had an account on Photo.SE as myself, cat for probably a few months, but today I opened Photo.SE from the HNQ and found my username to be ...
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Not able to submit image on http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com/
meta.photo.stackexchange.com say that I should have atleast 5 reputation to Submit a pic for hall of fame.
Now I have 5 Reputation. Still I am not able to?
Why so?
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Delete the "dell" tag?
There are only 5 questions tagged with the dell tag, all of them about Dell monitors. Those 5 questions are also tagged monitors.
From a photographic context, "Dell" doesn't have any meaning — they ...
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Please merge tag "digital" into "digital-photography" (or the other way around)
We don't need both digital and digital-photography. Let's kill one of them, please. Since the first is on 32 questions and the second on 310, I guess digital should go — although I think the -...
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Can a moderator fix the "bellow" tag?
For some reason, we have bellow. This is irritating, because bellows is actually the correct singular noun; the noun "bellow" means a loud deep sound — it's not even "one part of a bellows".
I have a ...
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On the Questions list, why do some questions have a grey background?
I often scroll through the newest questions https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions and find that one question has been highlighted in a darker grey panel. At time of writing, the question titled <...
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Request: Change "using photographic equipment" to "using photographic equipment (in the context of photography)"
This has come up before, but mostly in the context of video (see What is meant by "photographic equipment" as reference in the help center?), although it's also a frequent issue around ...
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Are moderators using different standards with new users vs. old users who have been on the site a lot?
I want to put out this issue that actually is not just on the photography stackexchange but everywhere on stack exchange.
Often moderators seem to have a different attitude with newer members (even ...
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please create fps -> framerate tag synonym
Someone recently created fps. We already have framerate. It'd be good if fps were merged into framerate, please.
(I know there's a process by which non-mod users can propose tag synonyms and they may ...
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Can I ask "find me x" questions regarding stock photography with specific rights?
Such as, "I need a public domain, commercial-use and free-to-modify picture of a middle aged woman with blemishes."
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How do I quickly and easily resize images in posts?
I've uploaded an image from my camera, and its huge. Now people are telling me that they want it smaller so they can download it quickly or without eating up too much mobile data. How can I provide ...
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How to handle/dispute a declined flag?
I recently noticed my flagging history had a declined flag. I flagged an answer to a question (Images colors getting distorted) as being "Not an answer" which is defined as...
This was posted as ...
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Can we kill the "beginner" tag?
The tag beginner is usually used by beginners to tag their questions, even if they're not actually about being a beginner in any way. If the questions really are basics, we have photography-basics and ...
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Can we add some way to semi-automatically add a "please DESCRIBE your desired effect" block to _those_ questions?
Questions like
How do i give this look to my photos?
How this photograph is taken?
How to process a photo to get same look?
What is this effect called and how can I post process my photos to get this ...
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The difference between main and meta photography stack exchange sites.
I suspect this has been already asked but i am having issues finding a page about it and i am trying to understand the difference between the Main Photography site and the Meta Photography site? if ...
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Equipment recommendation
Can I ask question with the tag 'equipment recommendation' that deals with a particular product of a particular company?Can I ask for reviews about a particular model of product?Thanks a lot in ...
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Merge the "macintosh" tag into "apple" or "os-x"?
We have macintosh, but Apple hasn't used this term for their computers since 1998 (they just use "Mac"). The tag wiki suggests that this is for questions about the hardware rather than software, but ...
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I would love to ask for clarification on a question but it appears that comments have been blocked because of some drama
related OP:
As a professional photographer, how can one handle a wedding photographer being rude or demanding in a way that will compromise overall image quality?
I'm confused by the OP is talking ...
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I downvoted an answer in error and would like to undo that. Can I, and how?
I downvoted an answer in error - due to my own misunderstanding of the question. I realised very quickly that I should undo my vote, but evidently not within the 5-minute window allowed for this. Is ...
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User with offensive username and post needs nukes
There's this user who needs nuking. User link. I hope I don't need to say why he needs to go. Here's the link to the offencive post. (Yes, its the answer)
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How to deal with image links, uploads, reliability and copyright when editing?
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I know that links to images online are discouraged. If the link breaks, the question loses its content.
This is all about this question, but there's a general problem behind it.
I ...
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I think one of my comments went missing, is it in a better place now?
I'm sure that I posted a comment to this question.
This comment is nowhere to be found now.
At first I thought I simply forgot to submit it.
But being asked why I deleted the comment makes me ...
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Is there a way to undo a "close as duplicate" vote?
I went too damn fast on one question:
Adapter for Olympus SLR lenses on Sony a6000 camera?
and voted it as a duplicate before I remembered that the Sony A6000 is one of the mirrorless E-mount ...
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please merge tag "close-up-filter" into "macro-converter"
These supplementary lenses aren't really filters, but they're often known as that -- it seems most useful to keep the tag as an alias rather than to just destroy it.
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Please merge tag "extender" into "teleconverter"
We have a number of questions tagged extender. This is what Canon calls their teleconverters; let's just merge the two tags.
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