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[rsn]

As a forum member when I am requesting advice I prefer to submit my question into the forum that the most are likely to see and have had experience with, this often means putting a thread into the "correct" forum is the kiss of death for the thread I submitted.

An example, even when posting my new thread - advise on how to photograph table tennis - submitted in open talk, I knew it was probably going to end up in sports which I knew was the kiss of death for that topic.

So here is my genuine question to moderators here, just how many folk do you think have "professionally or seriously amateured" photographing table tennis. I have literally read over a thousand photo magazines since 1974, definitely over a hundred books, probably over two hundred books, and I can't even mention photo videos "how to" and forum threads and posts here. Not once have I ever seen a piece on table tennis.

So I posted my thread - https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4815443 - in open talk, it was moved to Sports and it got the response I thought it would, zero.

I have a suggestion, why not let a thread exist in the area it was initially posted and after reponses have stopped for a couple of days, then move it to the "appropriate" area. I do understand some threads are in the wrong location and moving it will help, but a minority of threads aren't helped but hindered when moved to another location.

 

[Mako2011]

As a forum member when I am requesting advice I prefer to submit my question into the forum that the most are likely to see and have had experience with...

We try and keep threads in the most appropriate forum based on subject rather than posting frequency. Helps keep all threads ending up in one place

So I posted my thread - https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4815443 - in open talk, it was moved to Sports and it got the response I thought it would, zero.

Based on the thread subject....the Sport and Action Photography talk forum really is the proper place for that subject. I think it fine to re-post in Open talk or General Photo Techniques forum, given the responses so far. OK to be in two places

Good Luck

 

[rsn]

Based on the thread subject....the Sport and Action Photography talk forum really is the proper place for that subject. I think it fine to re-post in Open talk or General Photo Techniques forum, given the responses so far. OK to be in two places

Good Luck

Thanks for the good luck. As you can imagine, I am a tad nervous about this table tennis assignment, but excited as well. Never dreamt I'd be shooting something like this in my life.