*trying hard to keep lips zipped*
*trying right along with you*
Just a thought and not sure if you can do it but maybe a gallery supporter could maybe put some links from the uncommented section of pics that haven't been commented on and give some newbies a chance to comment.
I'm doing the same as a previous poster said and adding posts to get there lol.
Leigh
i thought gallery support member was a member who'd donated to the site. i've got over 100 and haven't seen that on my list. I plan on donating asap but have to funnel funds in to a tight budget.
i thought gallery support member was a member who'd donated to the site. i've got over 100 and haven't seen that on my list. I plan on donating asap but have to funnel funds in to a tight budget.
GenGen, have you added that to your list of groups at the top of the page? I jsut thought you werent added to a group unless you wanted to...maybe I'm wrong lol...wouldnt be the first time..
*trying hard to keep lips zipped*
*trying right along with you*
You two are better than I am! I don't know about the rest of you - and you can be as peeved at me as you want - but I worked my butt off this weekend doing 4 weddings. I do my absolute best to comment on pictures everytime I am here - whether my posts or pictures here get comments. I enjoy this community most of the time. However, after I worked my butt off this weekend making beautiful cakes so that more people will want beautiful cakes - I come here to relax and I get yet one more post telling me that what I am doing here/adding here is NOT ENOUGH!
Sometimes people are not being "not supportive" sometimes we are just busy.
I know the feeling! With being a newbie in the cake decorating world it is discouraging to not have any comments....I accept either good or bad. I need to know what I am doing and what I can do to be better, that's why I post them! Also good to know why I was unable to access the uncommented photos. I was wondering about that one.
I've never donated to CC as of yet, I haven't had the funds to spare to do so. I do believe you have to go to profile editor... not sure, but it's something you have to "subscribe" to kind of like the adult forums and galleries...
Also people who aren't current gallery supporter members can't view the link even if it's posted for them, and there isn't any other way to show the photos unless each link is copy and pasted. But before I was a gallery supporter member, I viewed them by going to galleries and viewing newest uploads and that was easiest because even if they already had comments and I didn't have anything to add I'd move on to the next
Also all you need to do is reach 100 posts and subscribe to the CC newsletter
*trying hard to keep lips zipped*
I will be the bad seed this time. LOL. I am not saying any of this to start an uproar, but it is how I feel.
How many times do we have to go over the picture commenting thing? It gets old. I am a gallery supporter and make comments whenever I can. However, I don't appreciate being instructed on when to make comments and what can be said when posting a comment. We are all doing this to help out and try to say something nice about others work. Yet this always turns into a nasty debate over when and how things should be done... That often makes me hesitate to even bother looking at photos and commenting.
I do have things going on besides cc that sometimes prevent me from contributing to the photos. Although i would love to spend more time on here (like 24x7)
I am not trying to offend anyone, it is just my opinion.
I also want to make it known that my comment earlier in this thread wasn't bitching at anyone for not being as active as I'd like or anything like that. I couldn't care less how active anyone is lol. I know people are busy, when I get too busy to come in and visit CC, I come in when I have time and view the recent uploads and posts since my list visit and try to catch up on things lol.
But please don't think I was "attacking" any of you lol. I was just being the bitchy person I always am lol and complaining about not getting enough attention but yeah I don't really mind when I don't get any comments except it discourages me and makes me not want to keep doing this. I love doing cakes I've never been so passionate about anything else and I love doing this and I love this community and I can't stand going anywhere else for cake advice or anything.... I'm sorry if anyone took my comments the wrong way.
After I posted my most recent cake, my 14 year old asked what everyone said about it. I told him 'nothing yet! It took a day before someone commented and it really does make a world of difference for some of us newbies (and apparently their kids too!)
So to all you gallery support members-thank you, for doing this. I was kind of sad at first that no one said anything, but after reading this and knowing how busy we all are I understand.
Again-Thank You! I'm getting there too, almost to 100 posts!
For anyone who doesn't know what a Gallery Supporter Member is (which included myself, up until about 5 minutes ago), I noticed that if you click on anyone's "Gallery Supporter Member" title under their name/avatar, it links you right to a page explaining how to become one. I too had misbelieved that it was something that happened automatically based on unknown criteria, but now I see that it is a group that you willingly join with the intention of regularly helping out other CC'ers.
Now that I understand what it means, let me just say what is a fantastic thing for all of you GSM's to do! I know that I can't commit to being able to post daily, and I think you are all fantastic for supporting the CC community this way.
To be a Gallery Supporter you need to do what cshell has instructed on in the above post!
It is a great way to be supportive on this site! I just started doing it and I love it!
But! I can only do it when I am able to! Which is all different times! Maybe we need more supporters??!!
GET THOSE POSTS UP LADIES! Oh! And make sure you are getting the CC Newsletter!
All I have to say on this topic has been said here:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-134671-.html
I just found this info under "Help" and thought it might be helpful for some people here. Sorry if this info has already been stated.
How can I join the "Gallery Supporters"?
Modified on 2006-09-07
Please do not send a Private Message to the site admins, or moderators requesting membership
You must have at least 100 Posts made to the forum before you qualify.
To Join the Gallery Supporters click here:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-forums-groupcp.html
Then choose "Gallery Supporters" from the dropdown, and click "View Information"
Then click the "Join Group" button.
Once the group moderator has approved your membership, you will have access to the "Gallery Supporters" Forum
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-forum-29.html
This is a private area where your group can discuss strategies and organization for tackling our enormous photo gallery. The only members that have access to read or post in this forum are official members of the "Gallery Supporters"
Keep in mind that all other chat needs to take place in thier proper forums. The only posts that should ever be made here should be specifically for the purpose of Supporting the CakeCentral.com photo gallery.
You will also have access to view the "Uncommented Cake Photos" area of the gallery.
If you click the "galleries" tab ....
right next to "search" you will see, "View Uncommented". Click on that and it will take you to the same area where the cakes listed have no comments.
(Copied directly from the Help Section when searched under help for Gallery Supporter)
Just a thought and not sure if you can do it but maybe a gallery supporter could maybe put some links from the uncommented section of pics that haven't been commented on and give some newbies a chance to comment.
I'm doing the same as a previous poster said and adding posts to get there lol.
Leigh
I think that's a great idea. I love getting comments and would be more than happy to view and comment on the ones that don't have any if I can find them
This comment is helping me add to my posts to be a Gallery Supporter.
Ok it might be shameless (esp since I just posted another comment 2 seconds ago!) but I'm gonna do it too!
I was just curious as to what the reasoning was as to why you have to have 100 posts to be a GSM? Hmmmm.... (That and I want to get 1 post closer to that "magical" number.)
I don't know, but it took me a long time to make 100 posts. I think that if you have invested the time to post that many times, then you have had enough time to learn the site, meet some of the people, and know how important this site is as a community.
I also know tht I have joined other online groups and never went back - 100 posts takes time!
I have been trying to comment on cakes, but keep getting internet explorer script error. Can anyone tell me how to make that go away!?!?!?!
PLEASE!!!!!!
OK, I'll put in my 2 cents. I did not even realize that so many pictures were not getting any comments. I look through the pictures all the time but don't stop to add comments very often. Guess I figured there were others that were leaving messages. I'll try harder.
With all the people on this site it should be easy enough to ask everyone to just be aware and add a few extra comments any chance they have. It does not have to be any one's particular responsibility to do so. We are all here to support each other.
I for one love this site. and will be adding more comments to the pictures.
I too have been disappointed by the amount of time for me to get even one comment on pics I've posted, although I try to post comments for the pics I view. I am new to cake decorating and it can get discouraging when you excitedly post your creation and there is no feedback (even constructive criticism).
However, I've never taken any offense to it cause I know how busy things can get.
Hey, is it 100 posts in the forum or 100 comments in the galleries?
I'd like to know that too. And/or do the comments we leave on pics count toward our "100 posts"?
(and I'm not posting this just to be able to get another post, although I am not sad that it's helping me get there lol )
thanks!
I just read the whole Want to become a gallery supporter sticky thread and was coming back here to let folks know it's only forum posts that count. But you beat me to it, lol.
So here's one more for me on my way to 100
I did not know we could go to uncommented cake pics! KEWL!!! I agree, we need to give lots of comments.
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