Post stacking is a combination both of compiling useless information as padding, and then the manner in which the infrmation and the images are displayed in the post.
Also the question is not about information added. It is the
type of information added, the
way in which that information is added and the manner in which is it and the images are displayed. (The following contains more than three sentences made up of polysyllabic words. Feel free to go away at this point if actually reading a discussion offends your sensibilities.)
For instance. It is not necessary to add the person's name in one line, then double space
before adding more info
Then double space again before adding more.
The post immadiately above and most of 1man's posts are good examples, but let's look at the immediately preceeding post.
I condensed it to this
That contains all relevant information provided about the person and the shoot (I would have preferred photographer too but sometimes thats not available/known)and external links that provide all the verified information on the subject one could wish for. It is clean, neat and succinct. We don't need to know her cat's name or her favourite brand of pasta. We certainly don't need each nugget of info on a seperate line.
I don't have a problem with interesting information or observations, comparisons or comments on particular shoots. I do have a problem with the entirely redundant, triple spaced and dumped in just to pad the whole thing out, usually before the poster adds a bunch of images, one or two to a line. That's a thinly veiled tactic to dominate the page.
Interesting to note that those who offend in such a manner are also usually those who post using cash generating hosts. It does not, therefore, take a psychologist to fatom the motives of such posting tactics.
Oh yes. The editing to the above post. That was done immediately before I copied/pasted the original post code here as a new example, as was the PM sent to the poster enquiring if this biography was a draught intended for publication and open to critique. I'm not an idiot, or lazy. Just sarcastic and a little fed up.
And just to be clear, when these subjects are brought up here, and ideas are put forward for rules changes, it is not because us bone idle buggers have not spoken privately to the offending parties or can't be bothered to edit posts. It's because we have been forced to do so so bloody frequently that making something enforceable is the only logical best next step, and that , having discussed a matter privately with each other to consider possible solutions, opening such matters up to discussion among the rest of the management is both helpful and proper.
If not, what on God's green Earth are we doing here?
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