same image in multiple threads

ECC233 wrote in post #19439499
I tend to agree with OhLook. Although I don't double post, I often heart search which is the most appropriate category. One of the problems is that new threads often have similar or near identical themes or titles to fossilised ones. For example, over in wildlife, we have "Are you looking at me?" and "show me your best are you looking at me shots" near the top at the moment. But it is kind of pejorative to think that the former is for your "not best" shots

I stopped posting in "show me your best are you looking at me shots" because I felt like I was posting the same files in too many places. This was before I found this thread.

ECC233 wrote in post #19439499
I tend to agree with OhLook. Although I don't double post, I often heart search which is the most appropriate category.

I do double-post (and triple-) but not, I believe, to excess. Instead of using my gallery for all postings after the first, I reupload so the image will appear to people who've filtered out the original forum. I'm very often on the other end of the gallery option, mostly because I don't use gear threads. Members who start in Lens Sample Photo Archive or Sony Cameras be warned, I won't necessarily take the trouble to view your shot. The same goes for several content forums, including Transportation and Pets.

"Heart search" is new to me. What does it mean?

OhLook wrote in post #19439529
I do double-post (and triple-) but not, I believe, to excess. Instead of using my gallery for all postings after the first, I reupload so the image will appear to people who've filtered out the original forum. I'm very often on the other end of the gallery option, mostly because I don't use gear threads. Members who start in Lens Sample Photo Archive or Sony Cameras be warned, I won't necessarily take the trouble to view your shot. The same goes for several content forums, including Transportation and Pets.

"Heart search" is new to me. What does it mean?

https://dictionary.cam​bridge.org …y/english/heart​-searching

ECC233 wrote in post #19439499
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Although I don't double post, I often heart search which is the most appropriate category.
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OhLook wrote in post #19439529
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"Heart search" is new to me. What does it mean?
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I wondered the same thing when I saw that term. . I have never seen it before, either. . Would love to know what it means.

In the context in which ECC233 (a.k.a. Ed) used that term, it seems to me as if Ed has a photo that he wants to share, and then comes to the forum to see where it would best fit. . That is interesting to me, as I have a backwards way of doing it. . I am always reading things on the forum, and when I come across a certain thread, or something someone says in a thread, that makes me think, "what photos do I have that I could post in response to this?"

So, Ed starts with a photo and then goes looking for what thread he can post it in, while I start by reading a post, and then I go searching for a photo that would fit the post.

It's interesting to me that we have such different ways of interacting with the forum. . And this makes me wonder how many others do it my way, and how many others do it the way that ECC233 does it.

But I still want to know what "heart search" means.

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ECC233 wrote in post #19439550
https://dictionary.cam​bridge.org …y/english/heart​-searching

Thanks. The "mainly UK" part accounts for my ignorance.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19439551
So, Ed starts with a photo and then goes looking for what thread he can post it in, while I start by reading a post, and then I go searching for a photo that would fit the post.

It's interesting to me that we have such different ways of interacting with the forum. . And this makes me wonder how many others do it my way, and how many others do it the way that ECC233 does it.

I do it both ways, depending on the (sub)forum. If I have a new photo, I place it where it can go. For World Wide Photo Week, I take a new photo and post it. For Competitions threads like Colors and The Photo Below Me, I find a photo, usually one posted before but not very recently, that matches what's called for in the thread.

Do you know, I had no idea that it was a "mainly UK" term. Maybe because I am having to read a lot of 17th and 18th Century English at the moment. You live and learn (I hope that is not only on our side of the pond!).

And for posting, I also do it both ways. But you only have to look at how many different bird threads there are to understand the confusion!

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Many times I have heard people say "search my heart", but for some reason when I saw "heart search", I didn't make the connection. . I am very familiar with the concept of searching one's heart, but not at all familiar with the term "heart search", because I have never seen it worded that way. . The way you used it in your sentence, I honestly thought that heart search could be some new kind of search technology that I had not heard of yet.

If you had said,

"I often search my heart to see what is the most appropriate category",

then I would have understood immediately what you meant.

But when you said,

"I often heart search to see what is the most appropriate category",

that totally threw me off as something I had never seen or heard of before.

I am interested in knowing if OhLook would also have recognized "search my heart" as readily as I would have.

The way we word things makes such an enormous difference in whether we are understood or not!

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #19439857
Many times I have heard people say "search my heart", but for some reason when I saw "heart search", I didn't make the connection. . . .

I am interested in knowing if OhLook would also have recognized "search my heart" as readily as I would have.

You rang?

I wouldn't have recognized the phrase. I don't recall ever hearing it. If ECC had used it, I would have understood, although it seems to belong better with highly emotional efforts than with cerebral ones like choosing a forum for an image.

Hmmm

I leave the last word to a great Irishman - GBS "two countries separated by a common language"

ECC233 wrote in post #19439872
Hmmm

I leave the last word to a great Irishman - GBS "two countries separated by a common language"

Really, it's one country seperated from a couple of others. I know the meaning of hood, trunk, sidewalk and gas.
I also know the meaning of plimsoles, anorak, bacon butty and a chippy.

Choderboy wrote in post #19440007
I know the meaning of hood, trunk, sidewalk and gas.

I didn't know "sidewalk" was US particularly. What do UK/Aussie speakers say instead?

OhLook wrote in post #19440019
I didn't know "sidewalk" was US particularly. What do UK/Aussie speakers say instead?

Footpath in streets.
We have the pavement (bit you drive on), kerb (concrete gutter at edge of pavement), nature strip then footpath or footpath then nature strip followed by property boundary.
We also have walkways that are generally connecting footpaths in subdivisions off one road to another road, street in a subdivision

Thong is one of the more amusing differences. Everyone wears thongs here, both sexes, any age.....

Or the poor animal that got named a beaver
My poor innocent daughter got caught big time out in the public