The pictures we post on this site are the public face of Caedes. Visitors come here looking for images to adorn their desktops. They do not come here to view peoples holiday snaps being shared between friends, and especially not to see "a picture of someones late mother" a quote from a colleague of mine who happened to see a recent posting. I apologise for his lack of tact in this matter. It similarly applies to pets. If the image in question has artistic merit then by all means post it as a piece of art, but not just for the sake of publicising ones own grief.
I understand the loss felt when someone close to you dies, I lost my mother at the age of 8 so I do really understand. I also know from my own situation how close death can be, perhaps that makes me more sensitive in this matter, but I find the postings of in memoriam images quite upsetting and not what I, or presumably visitors, come here for.
The case of Verenabloo was an exception, and well handled by Caedes given her standing within our community, although I feel that written condolences and not public postings would have been more appropriate.
Get well soon cards likewise should be removed and threads about such things kept in the Off Topic thread where others can ignore them. Send an email, electronic card of something else if you need to, but why subject the whole world, and me, with your woes. It may make you feel good, but it has the opposite effect on me.
For clarification, this is a general comment and not directed specifically at anyone.
I feel that all such social interactions would best be served by forming a Facebook group, or using some other social media for this. The group could be linked from our pages quite easily. We could then remove the noticeboard thread, community galleries and other such items to that and keep the public face of Caedes solely for our art.
I understand the loss felt when someone close to you dies, I lost my mother at the age of 8 so I do really understand. I also know from my own situation how close death can be, perhaps that makes me more sensitive in this matter, but I find the postings of in memoriam images quite upsetting and not what I, or presumably visitors, come here for.
The case of Verenabloo was an exception, and well handled by Caedes given her standing within our community, although I feel that written condolences and not public postings would have been more appropriate.
Get well soon cards likewise should be removed and threads about such things kept in the Off Topic thread where others can ignore them. Send an email, electronic card of something else if you need to, but why subject the whole world, and me, with your woes. It may make you feel good, but it has the opposite effect on me.
For clarification, this is a general comment and not directed specifically at anyone.
I feel that all such social interactions would best be served by forming a Facebook group, or using some other social media for this. The group could be linked from our pages quite easily. We could then remove the noticeboard thread, community galleries and other such items to that and keep the public face of Caedes solely for our art.