Wow! Your poppy cross stitch is amazing!
Stunning work!
Hi everyone, this is my first time here, so about to have a go at posting a photo.
Hopefully it will be more successful than the webinar I watched earlier. Iâve not done one before and had no idea how to join in with the chat! I could see the video though, all good fun
That is beautiful Margaret, love it.
Margaret your poppies are truly stunning and the pictures show off the colours and the texture beautifully.
Iâm looking forward to everyone chatting on this forum now Big waves!
Goodnight all, see you tomorrow.
Thanks all for the poppy love
Brenda have a look at your profile, it says what level of user you are in there.
Absolutely Fabulous!
morning allâŚlovely work on show here todayâŚI will show an oldie later as the new forum doesnât like me showing the same item more than once and my new listing is on the âWhat have you listed todayâ thread.
Brenda you can show it more than once, you just need different words to go with it otherwise the system will think itâs spam.
Lovely poppies Hazel, they go well against the pink.
Good morning all, lovely day down here, but a tad chilly⌠Iâve a brand new listing for today, from a visit to the Lake District, this picture is from Derwent Water:
Thatâs interesting to know Brenda, will take a bit of thinking about. I notice that the image I posted yesterday from my website has disappeared, it looks as if it has been commented out which is strange. Has anyone else posted images from places other than Folksy? I wonder if perhaps itâs because I linked it back to the original and it would be ok without the link?
I havenât tried posting from elsewhere yet Helen but it would be a problem if we canât link outside of Folksy as we sometimes discuss art techniques that we have seen elsewhere. @SianFolksy can you cast any light on why Helenâs picture has disappeared?
Hmm, no idea sorry - we havenât removed anything and there isnât a setting that would disallow it. @ffflowers could you please try editing your post and adding the image back in again. If it disappears again it might be worth asking the Discourse admins if they can spot any issues.
Thanks @SianFolksy. Iâve added it back in and itâs showing fine here (using Firefox) but when I look at it from my other session (using Chrome) all I see is an empty image box. Can everyone else see it? Way back near the beginning of the thread, a little fence in a box. Itâs not a massively huge image or anything silly like that.
StephieâŚas usual, being a dumboâŚwhat do you mean about words⌠I didnât write anything with the picture??..explain to meâŚ(in baby languageâŚlol) In the mean time I thought I would show an oldie that would delist soonâŚ
No problem Brenda!
When you post a picture it converts it to words.
If you put the exact same words in more than one post the system thinks you are spamming, so if you add some real words that are different to go with your picture it should let you post them.
So for example, I posted my budgies with no extra words in the no chat gallery.
Then I posted them in this thread with the words âmeet my house guest :)â and there was no problem with the post.
If I wanted to put them in another thread as well Iâd have to think of something else to say so that the post was not exactly the same as either of the other ones.
Does that make sense?
Just popping in to say hello with my proper âartâ shop now that I can - tis me, ffflowers in disguise!
No I still canât see it today but I could see it yesterday. I use Chrome.
Exactly this. Please do think about your audience and how theyâre going to react to seeing the same image posted multiple times across the same forum. Presumably the aim is for potential buyers to click through to buy or favourite your shop/item. However, overselling can easily backfire and make people switch off or even mute the category. Choose different items for different threads and try to engage your audience - explain whatâs different or interesting about the item or why youâve chosen to feature that item in particular.
Remember also that there are other places and ways to promote your work that might be as (or more) effective. Here are some tips from the experts!