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In reply to Mike Lates:

It's unusual to get a photo voting thread that's complaining about the lack of a voting option on a photo!

The guidelines on the moderation page for the People category are

Group photos and photos of people in a climbing or mountaineering environment or at least linked to a UKC meet. Photos of climbers in action where the climber expression is much more significant than the route they are climbing.

When I'm moderating, the rule of thumb I use is that if a picture is only going to be of interest to those who know the person in the photo then it probably belongs in the People category. So the first you've linked to feels more like landscape, the second probably People.

In reply to Toreador: Ta for the insight.
I guess with the first shot I was so chuffed to get the guy in focus, background as planned, colour of the pool & nothing revealed that I did want opinions. So many of my shots are poor (because they are put up for information sake) I felt hard done by to have it moved from landscape. It took me quite a while to work out which category it had been assigned to & just thought there was an automatic "we're not having that sort of thing" designation for the mods.

There isn't an obvious "appeal" channel & I'm not fussed enough to make a song & dance but wondered if others had had the same done to a favourite shot of theirs.

Glad Halcyon Days didn't suffer the same or I might never even have got to see it let alone enjoy the best selection of comments I've known or have met Charlie & found out it wasn't a superimposed model but his wife

In reply to Mike Lates:

Just edit the photo and change the category

In reply to Toreador:

^^

Yeah do this. I always put my pics in 'crag shots', which are usually then re-assigned by the mods, before finally being moved back to crag shots again by me.

It would be much easier if they just introduced a no-voting option.

In reply to Toreador:

Draw some knackers on him

In reply to Mike Lates:

But the point is that shots in any category can have comments/opinions, its just that you can be free of votes from wankers if you put them in a non voting category. I think it is important to preserve vote free categories, if you want opinions just put a note with the picture welcoming comments.

In reply to Southern Man:

Agreed, and it would solve all this angst if the mods would introduce a 'votes not welcome' option in the same way as you can choose not to take comments.

In reply to Al Evans:

Why not just upload rubbish pictures, then you can't be hurt when they get low votes? This seems to be what a lot of folk are doing

In reply to Toreador:

Tried that & clever techies bounce it back to non-voting