The following member isn't spamming, they are obviously just confused on either how to upload photos to the database or how to use the forums. My question is: should we still clear up the posts where people are posting in the wrong areas (and I'm not just saying in the wrong forum, but entirely wrong areas on the site as in the following post)?
https://garden.org/thread/view...

Or, perhaps just sending them a friendly tree-mail letting them know about their mistake should suffice.

This seems to be a somewhat common mistake made by new members. They post their photo as a comment to another person's photo instead of as an additional photo to a plant. They actually need to close the photo that they have open then upload their photo. Perhaps a little instruction where it says "Post a comment about this photo" would help: "If you are uploading a new photo please close the open photo first". Or something like that...

pardalinum said: This seems to be a somewhat common mistake made by new members.

Agreed, I see it happen a lot.

I check that forum quite often and end up moving these types of photos several x a month. I don't bother posting to them as most of the time they don't reply.
Once they are moved to the database, I delete the thread.

Ok, thanks, Sue!