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blinztree
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:41 pm
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| thinglass wrote: | | It's an editorial standard (at least for the work i have produced in the UK) that acronyms are accompanied by the full text meaning. You're dealing with reviewers here not picture editors and a full description seems to be the way to save time all round. |
+1. Don't make the reviewers guess or expect them to read your mind. Not everybody live in your fishbowl. |
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subarashii21
Joined: 12 May 2011
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Location: Czech Republic
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:40 am
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Fishbowls have been long gone, its 2012, any information from any part of the world can be obtained in a split of a second. Rejecting something because "I never heard of it" sounds like a method from medieval age. Mentioning fishbowls in relation to ACTA, now that deserves an eye-roll :) but ok.. it never hurts to learn something new, otherwise we will all end up like in that Idiocracy movie. |
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blinztree
Joined: 31 May 2010
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:38 am
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Not every one travels at your speed of light... or wish to. *Roll eyes* ;-) |
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cmcderm1
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
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Location: www.eliteimage1.com Southern CA, USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:16 pm
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I was an ACTA once, but never made it past the auditions.
Back to waiting tables I guess. |
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amanda4yhvh
Joined: 27 Feb 2012
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:41 am
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This seems a little silly. To get so up in arms and critical of the reviewers. If you took the picture, and know what it is in your picture, which process is easier... you labeling it competely or them googling it? If the two of you were in an office together and you handed them the picture for review and they turned to you and said "Hey, what do these letters stand for?" Would you then say... "Go google it I'm not telling you." Of course not. That is all that is happening here. Have a little consideration and take the 3.5 seconds it takes to type it out. |
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copidosoma
Joined: 17 Nov 2009
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Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:57 pm
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| amanda4yhvh wrote: | | This seems a little silly. To get so up in arms and critical of the reviewers. If you took the picture, and know what it is in your picture, which process is easier... you labeling it competely or them googling it? If the two of you were in an office together and you handed them the picture for review and they turned to you and said "Hey, what do these letters stand for?" Would you then say... "Go google it I'm not telling you." Of course not. That is all that is happening here. Have a little consideration and take the 3.5 seconds it takes to type it out. |
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As above, the acronym can mean a number of different things. Don't be sloppy and then blame the reviewers.
It isn't their job to figure out what you meant in the caption. |
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aynia
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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Location: The Land of the Vikings
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:08 am
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| subarashii21 wrote: | | Fishbowls have been long gone, its 2012, any information from any part of the world can be obtained in a split of a second. Rejecting something because "I never heard of it" sounds like a method from medieval age. Mentioning fishbowls in relation to ACTA, now that deserves an eye-roll :) but ok.. it never hurts to learn something new, otherwise we will all end up like in that Idiocracy movie. |
Reviewers don't get paid enough to sit and google captions or keywords they don't understand.
Imagine also if they had to do this, review times would slow down completely and there are enough complaints about review times over 2 days on this site!
But your google search may not actually come up with the same results as my google search.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXa1kEMooU |
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sfmthd
Joined: 18 Oct 2009
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:28 pm
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| thinglass wrote: | | It's an editorial standard (at least for the work i have produced in the UK) that acronyms are accompanied by the full text meaning. You're dealing with reviewers here not picture editors and a full description seems to be the way to save time all round. |
yes. if you use an uncommon acronym (vs say "FBI" or "MI6" or "UN" or "USSR") it is correct to spell it out on first use. without that your image was improperly captioned. |
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blinztree
Joined: 31 May 2010
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:07 am
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| copidosoma wrote: | | amanda4yhvh wrote: | | This seems a little silly. To get so up in arms and critical of the reviewers. If you took the picture, and know what it is in your picture, which process is easier... you labeling it competely or them googling it? If the two of you were in an office together and you handed them the picture for review and they turned to you and said "Hey, what do these letters stand for?" Would you then say... "Go google it I'm not telling you." Of course not. That is all that is happening here. Have a little consideration and take the 3.5 seconds it takes to type it out. |
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As above, the acronym can mean a number of different things. Don't be sloppy and then blame the reviewers. It isn't their job to figure out what you meant in the caption. |
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