Comment thread in Pixel Hangout

[swalkr]

I started a comment thread for this section. If anyone finds a more appropriate place for the comments, that would be good also.

[graficalicus]

why not comment in the same thread as the tutorial, instead of bouncing from place to place? Just my thought.... :)

[swalkr]

why not comment in the same thread as the tutorial, instead of bouncing from place to place? Just my thought.... :)

This is what Rusty posted in this thread: "May I humbly suggest that, after anybody post a thread in this forum section with a technique tutorial, we don't jump in filling up the thread with a bunch of "thank you for posting this", and etc. Do that in another thread. Let's keep the tutorials here pretty "clean".
. He might have meant an new thread in this section.

[christellf]

Suzanne,
I think he sees your title (Comment thread in Pixel Hangout) & he thinks you mean to post our comments from this thread in Pixel Hangout thread. It made it a little confusing seeing your title. But we could use this to make comments about the tutorial. That would work & not comment directly in each tutorial.
Christell

[Diana]

Here's my 2 cents. Since each thread will, presumably, start out with the tutorial, any comments made in the same thread won't make the tutorial hard to find. A thread for comments about different tutorials may be more confusing as to which tutorial they belong to.

Diana

[swalkr]

After thinking about this, Diana, I agree. Rusty just suggested not to mix comments with tutorials, but if each tutorial was in it's own thread with the comments under it, I think that would suffice.

[Rusty]

I don't want to give this more attention than it deserves. And I question whether it's my place to suggest rules :)

With many techniques posted by forum members, people frequently have follow up questions if they have problems with a particular point. Those comments, and hopefully answers to the Q, certainly belong in the thread.

If I'm attempting to understand one of these tutorials, I find that I often have to scroll thru three or four pages to find all the Qs and answers. I usually end up doing a copy/paste routine into a Word document: the original tutorial and maybe three or four subsequent clarifying posts, all picked out of a three or four page thread.

That was the thought behind my comment. Maybe I shouldn't have made it, it must have come out wrong. Ignore me :D

Rusty

[swalkr]

Rusty, I think you were on the right path, and after thinking about putting the comment thread in another area, maybe it does belong here, but I'm not sure how. You are right, the comments and questions are going to get lost if there isn't some way to keep everything nice and neat. I'm so happy that Tami included this thread. Maybe the other things will work themselves out.

[Rusty]

You made what I was attempting to say clearer, Suzanne,

Somebody posts an image, others say, "Great, how did you do that?". The OP explains. A bunch more jump in, "Thanks, that's great." "Oh, I like that; I used it on a pic of my dog/cat/hamster - how do you like this?" "I really like that but I'm having problems with step number 5, what are my layers supposed to be, top to bottom, before that step and... etc"

Hey, we are a friendly bunch here and all posts such as I illustrate above are appropriate. If I ever get good enough to develop something all by myself, and post it, I will be thrilled by the "thank yous" and will love to see what it did for your dog/cat/hamster!

What I was trying to say -- not very well -- was, if the post explaining the tutorial is put into this new section, then let's try to restrict subsequent posts, to that thread, to Qs and As about the technique.

I will still be happy to get somebody saying, "Thank you, I like it, I used it on my dog, etc." Just put that in another thread.

I envision somebody saying something like, "What's this 'Westimom Sketch' so many people talk about?" Then we could simply answer: Go to [this] forum and find the thread titled {xxxxxxx}; that explains it. Post back here if any Qs.

Rusty