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| Originally Posted by jediwhite .... rather than download our website pictures and then put them on yacht-forums, please just add the link !!
Our crew spend a lot of time taking photo's and trying to make a cool website (done in our own time) and its a bit unfair that you just remove them without asking.
Any questions you are welcome to ask but please stop copying our photos
Jed White, C.Eng. S.Y.Maltese Falcon |
So where is your website?? I had a hard time finding it with all of the other "Maltese Falcon" material on the web. I've googled several phrases and have yet to come up with your site??
I think the suggestion to put a link beside the photo is a really good one. But also one of the great features of the internet is to promote a subject. You do that by MULTIPLE LINKS, then lots of different hits brings one to an adjoining subject. I would think multiple links to their website would be more advantagous than claiming proprietary rights to photos.
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...often links and images around the internet are disabled for various reasons, i.e. outdated info, change of DNS, or someone simply forgot to pay the electric bill. Because these links (or images) are a relavent part of our discussions, it would be preferable for the images to be posted to YF because they will become permanently archived.
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I can't count the number of times I 've tried to follow some link only to find it not there, or hi-jacked. It's frustrating. I even have a few links on my own site that are no longer valid. (I need to change them, but I don't know the software). I like the idea that certain photos, etc, can appear on a number of sites (particularly quality websites with staying power), and not be possible lost forever.
I would suggest to jediwhite that they post some really interesting stories, and even more details & photos to their website, and then link it to Yachtforums.com, BoatDesign.net, and maybe a few other forums. That should really get their traffic up....hope they have a server capable of handling it.
And think about this. If we don't keep coming up with new material and photos etc, to add to this thread, this subject thread will die out along with its 3800 plus viewers, and we will be onto other subjects, leaving the Maltese site to find its own viewers individually.