I may have started late, but I can hustle.
Should anyone doubt the popularity of harlotry, I can assure you that all the corners of Gather are crowded. There is plenty of business on the strip, even for superannuated hookers like me.
The Image Loading function is over-worked at all hours of the day and night.
I posted about a hundred and twenty new images thus far.
I also "converted" many of My Photos to "summerpics". Thus, all the Irish harps, vintage Santas, turkeys driving antique autos, and frisky youth in hammocks are now "Summerpics".
It isn't clear to me if my re-posted images will obtain the 10-point prize. I erased the previous tags, added "summerpic" and re-posted the images to new "Summerpic" groups. I surely hope they will earn points; I need gift cards for my liposuction. Srsly.
Due to the frustratiion and impatience that many of my "friends", some of whom are also "johns", expressed about the endless flood of Summerpics in their "feeds", I posted the last summerpics only to private groups.
Are There Limits To Picture Prostitution?
These groups can be "open to everyone" at a later time, as every good hooker tries to be.
A secondary benefit to my photo-whoring has been the rationalization of my Image collection. The vintage Christmas cards now have their own group, and the New Year Greetings have a group, also.
Thanksgiving will have a distinct group, too, as soon as I (working backwards through the Image files) reach last November.
All the Birthday cards from the Ina Fest, and from many Postcard Stories, are collected, too.
All the haunting imges of people in vitage photographs are now being cllected in a specialized group.
Vintage artwork related to special days like Halloween, Valentine's Day, and Saint Patrick's Day, along with the vast store of vintage ephemera from Dover Publiations, is now collected in a special group.
Vintage Illustrations & Seasonal Art
I cross-tagged the old images that became "Summerpics", so the Summerpic Group could be dissolved and the images would still reside in their specialty collections.
So far, I have acculmulated about 700 Gather points, but I believe there is some delay in the point awards. The new Summerpic images were uploaded in three "waves", and the existing images re-posted in two discrete episodes.
I am eagerly awaiting the next award of Gather Points.
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Comments: 54
It's all in the hustle, Kate!
I thank you for your kind review of my vintage images.
There are many "payoffs" for a harlot, Andrea.
I believe my images will actually be more accessible to anyone who might be interested in them.
I'm glad that you are reading and commenting while you await the return of the Muse, Kate.
Simply brilliant.
I had to do something, Andrea. Janna was threatening to disconnect !
You have quite a few wonderful pictures that have never been discussed in articles.
Some of them, of course, will appear in "The Book".
Your Muse may be "taking a break" from all the ideas that abound in your image collection!
Oh, so do I, Kate.
Desperately.
Even without the SummerPic fiasco, one never sees a long discussion in the comment thread of individual images any more.
Not only has Janna not disconnected me, she has even commented on several of my lousy photo essays. And in a way that would lead me to believe she actually viewed the photos.
You'd have to be much naughtier than a harlot filling my feed with individual "summerpics" for me to sever our connection completely. I appreciate that you chose to be a bit more discreet in your harlotry. I wouldn't have minded if you did it publicly, as long as you had whored your pictures in groups, rather than individually.
I am pleased, however, that my bitchiness seems to have inspired you to organize your postcard collection. I look forward to being able to peruse them someday when you decide to make them public.
Like Kate, I look forward to getting back to the pre-whore Gather.
I'm not looking at individual pictures. I tried doing that, but got tired, really tired.
Have fun being a ho.
No luck.
Jon O. is back?
That adds one more intelligent reader an writer to the rather thin crowd we've had on Gather lately.
I was told that you didn't always add a qualifier, Ron B.
That's funny, Beaker.
I know they happen, but I hate to see Kate in a "dry spell".
I'm the merriest ho imaginable, Sharon.
Glad that yo stopped by.
I thank you for your indulgence, Janna.
A long time ago, in a far away place, the impish wordsmith, Soren, approved the use of "stately harlot" to define my style.
It would be interesting to know whether the retagging of older pictures works.
But, my point up-date is overdue!
"Just share your summer photos and tag them with the word summerpics. For each summer photo you share, you’ll earn 10 points! It’s as easy as that. Feel free to republish pics you’ve already shared; just add the summerpics tag. Your extra Gather PointsTM will be uploaded the next day."
This is good to know, Jody, since I somehow missed any announcement of the summerpics promotion.
My points are overdue, however, as I posted a "batch" more than 24 hours ago..
It's never too late, Flit. The contest still runs for a day or two.
I'll help you elbow some space on the "corner".
I'm counting on ths t be true, Kate.
There is nothing worse to be feared than an unpaid whore.
Myself included.
Ya think?
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I've been trying to post my offerings as essays if only because I had planned to try my hand at photo essatys with my pictures from my trip home in July... the points are an added bonus.
After spending my weekend off at the car dealership trying to get the A/C repaired in my car before I go back to work Tuesday... I need every penny I can get even if they don't have gift cards for my car repairs I can still use them on other things I would have bought and divert the $$ to my car.
I am NOT spending 4-6 hrs a day in an un- airconditioned car in August/September in South Texas!
\looking sheepish...
Sorry about the rant...
From Kate
"Ya think?"
From Kathleen
A perfect exchange regarding the state of Gather.
Chris, I have taken to heart the injunction of Martin Luther: "Sin boldly".
I'm not even wearing garish make-up.
Tom Gerace has said, from day one, that this site is ours and he will follow our lead. I took him at his word and expressed the direction I wanted to see, in my ratings, comments, and in my contributions.
I'm unhappy overall, but think it is only fair to admit that they have responded in part to my biggest requests. They didn't sort everything into categories - my number one request - which would have allowed me to find new people who produce what I want to see. But, they did give me this little corner of Gather in which I can see only what I choose (theoretically), just without the new people sorted into content categories.
That shifts my biggest complaints from the shoulders of Gather and puts it on me, or the people I have chosen as connections. I connected to people who professed to have higher standards. People who said they cared about writing, intelligent conversation, politics, and/or adult humor.
If we are still seeing things we don't want to see, I think we know why.
In my experience, Gather has not made any meaningful concessions to what members have requested.
Again, I have seen only a few of the long comment streams to Tom and the Member Service team members that have been posted in recent months.
It seemed to me that most Gather Members rejected the "Comment Removal" function, that most Members wanted "Games" in a separate area, that members wanted far more control over the "feed" design.
I don't think that the occassional fooling around by otherwise "serious" members compares to the structural problems that make Gather hard to use for people who want to maintain real conversations.
Thanks for the advice, Jennifer.
I have another large set of postcard images (from cards that have no names or addresses- so they cannot be used for "Postcard Personalities" articles with Kate C.)
They will be uploaded into a private group tonight.
The Alexa numbers on Gather participation only go back one year.
Of the year that can be viewed, participation was highest between January and June of 2008.
Was this the "Golden Age" of Gather?
The current numbers are dismal. I really do not see how the site can be "rescued".
Maybe before that time, Kate.
I am not traveling this week -and I found a lot of cool cards while rummaging around for unused images.
Take that back, Madame Donna!
I am a complicated slut, so there.