Net54baseball board question and answer....

[Leon]

Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

Leon, you mention jpgs seem to work best. I've always uploaded from PhotoBucket, and the last couple of times I've tried using a .jpg, when I hit preview, the cards are almost inversed (red is now green, blue is orange, etc.). But if I save as a .gif in Photoshop, send to PhotoBucket, then download a .gif, they come out right. Is it just me, or is there a better way to upload photos rather than using a service like PhotoBucket?

And thanks for being a great moderator, Leon.

First of all you are welcome and it's my pleasure to help run the board. For most scans I just have them in "my documents" on my hard drive and upload them while in a post. For others, which I want to be larger than is accepted in our board s/w, I host them on my own site and then cut and paste the url into the yellow box (above the posting box) that says "insert image". I use those 2 methods close to 100% of the time. I have no idea about your inversed color issue. It hasn't happened to me nor do I think I have heard of that before. I have to think it's something you are doing or maybe it has to do with uploading .gifs instead of .jpgs. I only use .jpgs and they have always worked well.

As for a feedback thread I don't think I want to go there. Except for bringing it up in this thread it really doesn't seem, to me, to be an issue. Each thing like that requires even more moderating and for now I just don't think the Shi* to Equity ratio is there. Like I said above there is quite a bit of info on everyone if you just click on their user id as well as see how long they have been on the board and how many posts they have done. I do get a fair amount of reference requests and I would say that 75% or more of the times we are able to be very sure. With the BST being a closed area, with only registered members on it, the safety is sort of built in. Now, as happened to Quan, if there is someone getting out of the hobby or there is some other extraordinary situation, I don't think feedback would even help that. The guy that did that to Quan was fairly well known. (If I recall correctly) If someone wants to scam someone then I doubt a feedback system is going to necessarily help.