Re: Portrait Submissions
I don't really understand how this works, obviously, but hypothetically speaking...
If you changed a portrait's categorization (NOT deleting it), from say 'fmg123' to 'mmg123', wouldn't that just change the image that people are using from one label to the other, without removing the image?
I understand that when you delete and replace an image, that changes it - if you go to bed with fmg123 being a blonde lady, and wake up to fmg123 being a brunette because the previous image in the 'slot' has been removed and replaced with another one, but it seems to reason (to my non-technical mind at least) that changing the 'slot' shouldn't bork people's portraits - it should just change the numeric designator for the image they're using, resulting in going to bed with a blonde labeled fmg123 and waking up to the same blonde labeled fmc789.
Deleting and replacing images doesn't feel good to me, though, unless you could tell that absolutely no one was using an image. Even in the case of duplicates, because someone is probably using that duplicate if just because that's the first version of the portrait they came across - and sometimes what looks like an exact duplicate isn't -quite- the same. The lighting might be better, or it might be a smidge higher resolution. Unless the image is 100% identical, like someone accidentally submitted the exact same portrait twice, I feel like we should probably let them stay. (And definitely announce when it's been done, if it happens, down to providing the numbers for the removed image so that people know there's an out-of-order new image to check out, and the numbers for the duplicate that stayed, so that people that lost their portrait know where to find the other one without having to go hunting.)
Same goes for re-ordering what looks like wrong gender applications. Yeah, there are several female portraits in the males, and several males in the females, but those ones are pretty ambiguous and only obvious if you know exactly who the subject in the portrait is, and in some cases trying to re-order them would lead you down the slippery slope of defining someone's gender identity. That feels like a sleeping dog that's probably best left to lie.