Duplicating Pics

[winger]

Folks,
We all do it, I have as well. In the future lets try and at least make a small effort to not post the same pics (in some cases ad nauseum) over again. It will never be 100% but lets at least give it a try.
Thankyou

[jng]

That sounds like music in my ears, Winger. :D

I have to check one of my categories for dublicates, as someone has uploaded a lot of the same pics, which I already did upload when I started the category. A hell of a work - both for me checking it and for you to delete the files. Could have been avoided if the persons had checked the pics in the category before uploading. :eek:

[bodkeren]

Sounds fair. I just will mention, that some of the categories are getting pretty big, with a lot of pictures to check, so mistakes can happen.

[doctorx]

I agree there are a lot of dups.

Something for Rabbit and Winger to think about: There is software out there that will check your hard drive for duplicates. I use one that helps me a lot. It will search and display any files that are the same. I don't know if it will work on a server but maybe. That would be easier on the admins to keep the databases cleaned up.

[winger]

Well, thats for Rabbit and Tiger to think about, Im just a moderator and havent invested any dollars in this site, just time.
This site is huge and will always have lots of dups, just clean em up one at a time when I see em. Right now I am waiting for Tiger to be able to get me access to approving uploaded pics, once that happens, if it does, than two sets of eyes checking out posts will help a bit.

[Rabbit1]

I agree there are a lot of dups.

Something for Rabbit and Winger to think about: There is software out there that will check your hard drive for duplicates. I use one that helps me a lot. It will search and display any files that are the same. I don't know if it will work on a server but maybe. That would be easier on the admins to keep the databases cleaned up.

this software will do that ---but only files with the same name----it also takes a great amount of time to run and shuts down the forum to the members while it runs----right now I do not have the time to run it---as I am trying to get all the members to comply with the birthdate in the profile rule change---that is more important right now---In the future when Winger has access to helping the upload approval ---I may have the time to run it and help cure the problem ---until then we will just do the best we can ---alot of members are helping when they see the dups and letting us know-----I thank all the good members for their help

Rabbit 1

[winger]

So many dups, so little time. I could spend more time posting what I am going to eliminate then just eliminating them. In some rare cases, IMHO, a dup pic creates a new thread of discussion as its original is buried and has not been viewed in quite awhile. When this happens I will allow the discussion to take its course before cleaning up the dup pic. In all cases, the earlier pic will remain.
When you look at who posts, it becomes apparent that it is a tiny fraction of 9000 lurkers out there. Lets all try a bit harder to police ourselves, shall we?

[charliels531]

I just want to suggest that we check very closely before deleting a pic as a duplicate. Several of the models (R. Pedon for one) did shoots with high-speed cameras so that you might have five or ten shots that look alike, but were part of a series done in a matter of seconds; there may be very small movements, which means the pic isn't really a duplicate.

One of the photographers who worked for American Art Enterprises (Bob Ellison) saved a bunch of such "outtakes" and has been releasing them in small batches for the past five years or so.

[winger]

Not to worry, Charlie.

[winger]

Let me state here that removing dup pics is low on my priority list. I spend more time just making sure things are moving along smoothly. I do aggressively attack blatant non retro postings and moreso, .com addresses on pics.
I know there are some very knowledgeable folks here who have good inside information on the gals we love, please feel free to impart those stories and information to all of us, it is most appreciated.

[chengny]

Dear Winger,

A few moments ago I uploaded 4 images of Roxanne Brewer. These were retrieved from a ppt file. Please evaluate them for quality and format (ie are they clear and do they properly fill the viewing area). I have a fairly large collection of these ppt files featuring models that I'm sure would be of interest to your members. If this first step deemed successful, I will continue to extract more.

chengny

[charliels531]

Thanks for the comment, Winger. And I just want to add my two cents about the software. There is software that will spot duplicate files, but only if they are 100% duplicate. A few bytes different and the software perceives it as a different file. Looking at two pictures, one with 64,000 bytes and one with 64,005 bytes, I guarantee I can't tell the difference, but the software would think it was a different file. Probably not worth the investment, IMHO.

[Rabbit1]

Let me state here that removing dup pics is low on my priority list. I spend more time just making sure things are moving along smoothly. I do aggressively attack blatant non retro postings and moreso, .com addresses on pics.
I know there are some very knowledgeable folks here who have good inside information on the gals we love, please feel free to impart those stories and information to all of us, it is most appreciated.

well the software that checks for dups ---only catches them if they have the same file name--in most cases they do not---but maybe we need to add to the staff to just help check for dups---another thing I noticed is members using categories as a dump---they may have ten or more pictures of a certain model ---instead of opening a category for that model they dump the pictures in "Big Tits" or retro vintage Pictures-----I am getting alot of color Pictures in the Vintage models category---to my way of thinking Vintage is B&W pictures ----maybe a few colorized later pictures---Let put these later models in a retro model category where they belong---I guess Winger and I should just reject pictures not posted in proper categories----it is getting real time consuming changing the categories for the poster----Getting loads of Pictures in Retro Sex Pics----most of these are cap shots from retro movies ---I do not pretend to be an expert on all of these---and I know some are sliding in that were taken after 1980----should we stiffen up the standards --on all pictures? like on retro sex pics make the poster identify the movie and the year it was made?

:ra

[winger]

Dear Winger,

A few moments ago I uploaded 4 images of Roxanne Brewer. These were retrieved from a ppt file. Please evaluate them for quality and format (ie are they clear and do they properly fill the viewing area). I have a fairly large collection of these ppt files featuring models that I'm sure would be of interest to your members. If this first step deemed successful, I will continue to extract more.

chengny

Chengny,
First off, welcome to the site and thanks for taking the time to post your pics and your questions.
I placed the pics in the Roxy Brewer section rather than in Big Tits, where you had them. This is always preferable when the model has her own folder.
The pics themselves came out well, you can view them for yourself and see what trimming needs to be done etc.

[winger]

I know that I am becoming more "heavy handed" when it comes to accepting pics. There has been a huge influx of pics lately, mostly of models with no name and a simple name like "Hairy Babes". Many of these pics are simply a close up of a vagina with no way of knowing if its retro or whatever. Now, some posters have built up credibility in my mind and I give them more leeway in their posting...how do you build up credibility?....take a more pro active interest in this site and quit simply dumping tonage of pics on us.

[lesabre1]

"---another thing I noticed is members using categories as a dump---they may have ten or more pictures of a certain model ---instead of opening a category for that model they dump the pictures in "Big Tits" or retro vintage Pictures-----I am getting alot of color Pictures in the Vintage models category---to my way of thinking Vintage is B&W pictures ----maybe a few colorized later pictures---Let put these later models in a retro model category where they belong---I guess Winger and I should just reject pictures not posted in proper categories----

----should we stiffen up the standards --on all pictures? like on retro sex pics make the poster identify the movie and the year it was made? "


Yes Yes Yes, you have hit the nail on the head with this comment Rabbit1. Maybe instead of rejecting the "series" type photos you could email the members to let them know they have to open a catagory in members section.

Keep up the good work and thanks for your time and efforts. :bra

[winger]

Lesabre,
You would not believe how many PM's I send out and how much "silence" I receive in return.

[peter81965]

I know that I am becoming more "heavy handed" when it comes to accepting pics. There has been a huge influx of pics lately, mostly of models with no name and a simple name like "Hairy Babes". Many of these pics are simply a close up of a vagina with no way of knowing if its retro or whatever. Now, some posters have built up credibility in my mind and I give them more leeway in their posting...how do you build up credibility?....take a more pro active interest in this site and quit simply dumping tonage of pics on us.
hear hear Winger.

[ntntoxicated]

I've been a collector of vintage photos for years, fondly remebering many of the great winger photo folders put up at yahoo in the old days. I use Check Identical Files, which is not filename dependent, and Thumbsplus 7. The Thumbsplus program lets you sort a folder by file similarity and though it's not foolproof, it will highlight a number of similar files of different file sizes and qualities. The Thumbsplus method is very time consuming, though, because you want to keep the highest quality file (not necessarily the highest filesize). It also converts .bmp files to .jpg files saving a lot of filespace.

I must admit, posting duplicates is a concern, as I have collected photos as I said, for years, and could easily be putting photos scarfed up here back up again. Avoiding dups is especially difficult for more popular models with hundreds of pictures in their folders.

I do appreciate the massive effort involved in keeping up a site like this. Kudos and thanks to all you admins and moderators!

[kevin]

I must admit, posting duplicates is a concern, as I have collected photos as I said, for years, and could easily be putting photos scarfed up here back up again. Avoiding dups is especially difficult for more popular models with hundreds of pictures in their folders.
Funnily enough, that should be the easiest thing for members to do : - checking against the folder to make sure of not reposting - though not foolproof in some of the bigger folders due to their size. I have some knxwledge of what is here as would the other mods but it's not perfect and a note " better quality - bigger file" on an upload is always appreciated.

[WDD]

My late father was a photographer. He would take numerous pictures at, say, weddings, and present a large collection of pictures, k***n as "proofs," to the customers to select the best ones for inclusion in an album. Often there is little variation in some poses in several proofs.

When I think of a model's portfolio, I think of a collection of pictures that vary greatly from one another, a representative sampling of the model in different poses and different sets or environments. But when I see the Playboy Playmate portfolios at Playboy's paid subscription cyber site, there's often little variation among the pictures; they're more like proofs than a true portfolio.

On the Internet, people may have different scans of the same magazine picture. We might have a Tilde, a Poofy scan, a Concor scan. Shall we exclude any as replicates? I do, for better or worse, and when I do I judge which is the better on the basis of image size, clarity, cropping, and other variables that I think determine the quality of the picture.