The notice below was published by Ken Wang under "Message Board" back in 2011.

Unfortunately, for some time now, this notification has been ignored by a number of contributors.

In my view, to ignore this is leading to a further loss of interest in the site by the public at large and I suspect numerous members.

This can be seen by a very low level of interest in the forums and a very significant drop in the level of views per image generally.

There is also a significant rise in the number of images uploaded at any one time by rising numbers of contributors, up to 15 uploads from the same visit and the same aircraft. This has resulted over time to certain members having anything up to a hundred images of the same aircraft uploaded to the site.

We also have in the database images of dogs, birds, toys, people, TV images, cars, motorcycles, RC aircraft, for sale signs, parachutes, bombs & missiles, any cropped/proportioned image size, images taken through mesh fencing, plane spotters, contrails, and more!

Perhaps the site has reached a point when it can no longer be seen as a serious aviation website.

As the sole remaining committed Administrator, I am now uncertain of my future interest.

Objective comment would be welcome.

Malcolm.

Posted by Ken Wang, 2011-12-12 13

Duplicate or identical photos

Recently we have noticed a very disturbing trend: more and more members uploading similar even almost-identical shots to the website. While we still proud ourselves as a no-screening, free uploading site, duplicated shots from same photographer adds no value to the site. Please refrain yourself from doing so.

So we have to emphasize our uploading policy again:

All uploaded photos are subject to screening by our admin team. We reserve the rights to delete any photo in our sole discretion.

Any duplicated or almost-identical shots from the same photographer will be deleted without notice.

Occasionally we will move photos between airport and aircraft section.

Please go through your gallery, check for duplicated or almost-identical shots and delete them. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Let's work together to make this site a better place for our hobby.