Okay – thanks for pointing out the link in Duncan’s previous post Slack-line – I hadn’t spotted that.Nonetheless, looking at Duncan’s most recent post in isolation, I’m not sure I totally agree with your rebuttal, Toby. Perhaps it will help if I explain the rationale for my earlier post?I’m well aware that people copy web-content all the time, without crediting the source – and indeed if every such instance was accompanied by a credit, it would all get a bit tedious. Life really is too short for that!So the stance I adopt is more “credit where credit is due”. And for me, the El Cap Report is one of those examples - a valuable and unique service “unique in the world” as Tom Evans describes it every day!I know Duncan will agree with me on that, and is probably an avid follower of the report himself. That is why I was surprise to see the photos just lifted and dropped into Duncan’s post, without a further credit. And I knew where they had come from (could have guessed anyway) because I had already looked at Tom’s latest report this morning, mainly to see how Leo was getting on.Here’s another way to look at it:-Do you think that Tom Evans, had he been surfing and happened upon UKB, and happened to look up that thread at the time I did this morning, would have felt a bit aggrieved to see his photos dropped into someone’s post?Perhaps he would have been really chuffed, but my suspicion is that he might actually have felt a bit miffed. Yet if Duncan had just put a note saying “Photos from (linked) El Cap Report” then I’m sure he would have been chuffed!Just my opinion though. There’s no right and wrong in this stuff.CheersNeil
[quote author=duncan link=topic=16197.msg283530#msg283530 date=1288158345]Painfully close[img]http://www.elcapreport.com/sites/default/files/3%20unbelievable%20leo%20move.jpg[/img]No cigar?[img]http://www.elcapreport.com/sites/default/files/4%20%2030ft%20later%20leo%20is%20pissed.jpg[/img][/quote]
one positive outcome though is that I finally know how to embed photos
Okay - thanks for that additional information, Slack-line. I hadn't realised that this was how UKB worked (I'm not really a technophile, though I do understand your post) and for me there is something much less underhand in linking to someone elses site, than copying their pictures and dropping it into your own.I had assumed Duncan had done the latter, and I was wrong. Sorry!Neil
Hi Neil F, I agree I should have made the source more clear. I am also one of Tom's "Cubicle pukes" as well as occasional subject and appreciate his work. Neil (slack_line) is technically right but I think its good to be explicit rather than implicit about giving credit and I wasn't on this occasion.
Where actually is The Prophet? ... over on the right of El Cap somewhere?
props to leo and jas on finishing the prophet. the feeling after all that time must be incredible.
