This website is difficult to use snd overcomplicated with passwords and it won’t let me upload photos from my phone.i daresay its easy if your very computer savvy. Lots of Facebook groups regarding silver are much easier to use.
So the choice is simple and yours. No one else seems to be complaining about these alleged inconveniences…
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The website Silver Collectors Forum is not well adapted to those who prefer to put their searches into the hands of the cloud and whoever runs it – as you say correctly Facebook is much easier.
As a user I can only presume that the owners have decided retaining content control and limiting material poaching by modern AI systems is a protective tradeoff for those that use it.
So far as pictorial download from your cell phone is concerned, that solution is simple; download to email and then download again and click and drag your image.
There is a way of short circuiting this but it does involve the download of additional code and I don’t want to start making things sound complex.
My colleague’s suggestion nobody else has commented or even noticed the aging system’s demands is not actually true. Not only has it been noted but it is has been detailed and reported.
But the solution also has a downside. AI will eventually swamp the responses to searches and eventually remove the human element completely.
Why you might ask, is that a bad thing? It is not if your goal is to improve AI databanks but if the job is to educate the public on silver and matters relating to silver then it’s counter productive.
AI need data volume to work. It constantly feeds on and expands that content volume without differentiating between real and, often unintentionally, fake data.
It’s not a new problem for those providing data – indeed it accounts for some of the most colourful of human history like the Arthurian legends, but it bears little resemblance to the archeological and DNA data now available directly.
May I give you an example from my own area of knowledge?
Writers of English history and so called prehistory have shown inhabitants of what is now called the British Isles constantly being ousted by Europeans and others taking over and eliminating the prior settlers: the Picts being chucked out by the Celts, the Celts being decimated by the Romans, The Romans leaving after 400 years and the Angles and then the Saxons and then the Viking and the Dane and in 1066 the Normans who were really just Vikings who had settled in France and decided they wanted to eat something other than frogs legs, coming over and changing everything.
Those who wrote those histories, always the winners, believed or wanted us to believe their conquest was absolute, wiping out prior people.
In fact modern DNA shows by sampling people living in communities in the UK whose forebears have lived there for a while, the great influence was before England separated from the continent and when there was still a land bridge.
Nothing that has happened since, makes but the slightest difference to the biological makeup of inhabitants of the Isles.
AI is rapidly taking on the function of the people who traditionally wrote history – the winners.
This website’s stubborn refusal to get swamped by that tide may preserve its integrity.
The downside with relying on us humans to research rather than machines is we are human and take every opportunity to display those frailties and flaws – like telling you you are a whinny b—t if you complain about the lack of facebook similarities, passwords, pubic ownership of privately submitted data and third party control of information streams reaching you at all.
When in fact what you are is a perfectly rational human being, probably high functioning, whose complaint displays early onset of consequences of machine programming on your own cranial systems.
CRWW
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Where and when.
To be precise, I mean, of course, our forum. Hence - obviously - the proposal of freedom of choice.
I don’t have any problems downloading photos from my phone onto my posts. Maybe the issue is your phone?
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