Ron Lindeboom
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[Joseph Owens] “Well, can you blame ’em?”
I could, but then I’d have to work really hard to hold a straight face while doing it.
;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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[Matt Lyon] “Ron, have you considered a more general policy that everyone sign their posts with a full name, job title and location? I’ve wanted to suggest this even before this flame war erupted. Maybe this is too hard to enforce?”
We would love doing this but I am afraid that using a policy that restrictive would cut down the traffic to a trickle of what it is, and we could pull the plug on Bessie.
We have tried over the last 15 years of doing this, to find a balance between being restrictive enough to get most of the job done, while being loose enough to allow enough freedom that most people can self-regulate themselves.
Unfortunately, there always seem to be some whining anti-Mac or antic-PC fanboy in the crowd from time to time. Either side gets really boring quick.
Thanks for your feedback, Matt. It is appreciated.
Ron Lindeboom
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“Arc Nevada,”
You have until the end of the day today to update your account to your realname or we will be turning off your account.
Your argumentativeness and lack of answering direct questions that are posed to you — besides being a PC guy who hates Macs and just loves to crap on them (something we have never tolerated here in the COW, regardless if it’s people for or against Macs) — is about to get you thrown out of here.
So, if you are going to make the assertions that you are, step up to the plate and own your words.
Arc Nevada is about to disappear from the COW.
Oh, and don’t tell me it’s because I am a Mac-freak, as I own a few of them, but the largest set of computers I own are Linux-based and I also have a few HP Z-Series PCs — so, I wouldn’t try that one were I in your shoes.
Lastly, you might try being a little more respectful in your comments, as fanboys — whether of the pro- or anti- variety — do not last long in Creative COW.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hello Tony,
We never set any account to automatically be able to post.
It isn’t personal but is the way that we have coded our mechanisms so that we do not have all the spam and noise that you find across many forums sites on the net.
We allow new accounts to post but the posts and comments go into an “approval queue” and one of our moderators has to look at the ones that we approve and cull the ones that we don’t. (You would be surprised at the amount of spam that this process culls from our system. In a day of auto-bots and spamming spiders, etc., we have to do this to make our site work on a professional level of signal-to-noise.)
Yes, we apologize for the inconvenience of having to watch your posts go into a queue and not directly be posted to the boards, but it is the price of dealing with all the knuckleheads on the internet that want to destroy the work of others.
But, said simply: if you post, we will approve your posts and comments and then you will find your account green-lighted by our mechanism down the road a bit.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Okay guys, we have added it. ;o)
Da Cows
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We are working on it as we speak, Rich.
We have some great stories in the making and Tim Wilson, Stefani Rice, me, and others are hard at work tracking down and getting stories done for our members.
In the meantime, you can goto a “COW technology preview” of an idea we are working on (the interface is NOT what will be and is merely there to help us compartmentalize the data), which you can see at…
https://www.creativecow.net/nab
It will show you blogs, news items, conversations, articles, etc., that involve NAB, drawn from all over the COW and compartmentalized in a single aggregated page.
Again, we know the interface sucks, it is not live and is merely a test of a technology — but you will get the point.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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You really should set-up an output preset to exactly the output parameters that your printer tells you they prefer.
Over the years, we have used a few printers who specialize in certain kinds of printing, and so we have varying presets we’ve created that are named for the printers and the type of project. For example: for Creative COW Magazine, we have one called DartmouthMagazine; another is PSPrintBusinesscards.
This way, when we output, we know that the output settings are exactly set to do what the printer expects in each case.
Nearly always, in the case of the magazine, we send “live fonts.” The only time we have had to use outlines fonts is when Adobe refuses to support the live “fonting” of one of the typefaces we use and so we are forced to outline on a case-by-case basis.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Alan Lloyd] “Expecting people to work for nothing, and being incredibly demanding of them in the same breath, has become a trend in this business. A sick, destructive trend.”
In cow farming terms, it is called “culling the herd,” Alan.
If there are people (shall we be nice and say) stupid enough to give their time, their equipment, their talent, and their self-respect, to someone who wants them to show up on the job site and bring their camera, lights, expertise and their time — and do it all for nothing…well, let’s say they are “up for the cull.”
They will not survive.
Maybe that’s a good thing because they are contributing to the factors working to drive down prices in this industry. They are helping destroy the very industry in which they work.
I must end by saying that my favorite Craig’s list “job call” of this nature, even went so far as to demand that they bring lunch for the rest of the crew, in addition to their camera and lights.
Remember that one, guys and girls? (I don’t think that I have ever seen this board have so much fun playing off a Craig’s List post before or since. It was great.)
Ron Lindeboom
PS: I am not talking about the kind of internships that Walter mentions. I am all for mentoring programs and used successfully and ethically, an internship can be a value to both parties.
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After reading this one, I have to agree with Walter’s point of view: there was no contract, the employee did the work of her own initiative, she also used her own equipment to do it, and was not paid to either capture, edit, or compress the footage (or prepare the photos) for the web.
In these kinds of circumstances, which is based on the trade customs and traditions that are the purview of photographers, etc., the law sides with the photographer.
That’s what I suspect is the case here.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[John Cummings] “I think “Persecution” best describes what often happens in this particular forum when one asks a stupid question for the umpteenth time.”
A little more accurate description might be: when the SAME person asks a different version of the SAME stupid question for the umpteenth time.
Although I favor the use of the word “electrocution.”
Ron Lindeboom