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Apparently reading is a thing of the past

Basil

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I recently sent out an email announcing that we are going to do a calendar for 2027 and asking for submissions.

In the instructions, I asked for two simple things: First, I asked that when people sign in to the upload page - please use your real name with your username in parentheses. Second, I asked that images be named starting with your username, year, make and Model, followed by a file number, like this:
BASIL_1967_Jaguar_Etype_01.jpg

So far I’ve had over a dozen uploads and not a single person has followed those simple instructions. They have all used their real names only and file names straight out of the camera. I have no way to connect these images to specific forum members except in those instances where someone uses their real name as a forum name. (Not the case with most of these uploads)
Very frustrating.
 
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Welcome to my world of curmudgeonhood, Boss! :mad:
 
They have all used there real names only and file names straight out of the camera.
There, they're, their; it's going to be alright.

Sorry, boss. I couldn't help myself.
 
We need a support group for them.
 
I’ve had 21 submissions so far (not counting the ones by email) and exactly one person followed the requested process. One!
I think this is just evidence that most the members are men. "Hi, my name is Walter and I have trouble following written instructions."
 
Jeez - we have to follow written instructions? Isn't there an app that'll do it for us?
 
What was I thinking? :cautious:
You weren't thinking! Seems a harder job than rallyes. Moss turned theirs over to a private co. Same as Land Rovers North did same thing.
 
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It’s not only reading, it’s listening too.
I spent too much time on the phone yesterday talking to a nurse in my wife’s doctors office. No matter how many times I tried explaining the problem we were experiencing with a piece of equipment my wife needs she wasn’t getting it. After the third time I succinctly explained it again and again I told her “ you’re not listening”.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
 
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