Are any Top Contributors going to boycott the Selective Color questions?

I probably don't count because I lost my TC badge months ago (perhaps to some whippersnapper who copy/pastes selective coloring answers?) In fact, I'm not even sure I'm a regular anymore... I used to be... I'm pretty sure I'm still on the top-10 board in the Cameras section...

But YES, I'll boycott those questions. I've been avoiding them like the plague for months already - since before it was fashionable to avoid them - but now that you've sounded the battle cry, you bet I'll officially boycott them. Starting right now. I'm all over it!

I'll also continue to avoid all the other questions that don't interest me, including the "serious" questions that I've already answered 100 times before. The current generation of regulars is doing a fantastic job.

I currently read perhaps 7 question per day and type just 1 or 2 answers (lucky you!). But I do still enjoy logging in, and I still pretend that once in a blue moon I help somebody. That's all this site is about. For me, anyway. Then again, I've been around here longer than most and I already have a shiny Level 7 badge. (secret: you don't get a Nobel prize and a million bucks for reaching level 7. Not even for pulling it off with a retarded name and 55% best answers)

Oh, and that selective coloring fad... that will continue until the next thing replaces it. In fact, judging by the increase in traffic on this site, that will generate even more silly questions. The good news (take solace!) is that the number of interesting questions is also up.

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The TC badge is more of an activity barometer than a quality seal. Answer a lot for 3 weeks - get a TC sticker. Slow down for 3 weeks and you loose it again. You do have to have a minimum BA% in your category but that can be rigged, too. Point-gamers aplenty here, but that's a whole different topic.

As for myself, that number mostly means that I could be having more fun if my answers weren't so serious all the time ;-)

While I think that selective color/color accent/"that black and white photo with a color thing" is a tacky pop culture technique and that the questions asking how to achieve the effect are equally annoying, I believe the purpose of Y!A is to help each other out. To discuss this any further is to take Y!A as something more or less than what the actual purpose of the site is (or should be) for.

The search feature can probably solve over a third of all the questions that flow in on a daily basis, but unfortunately this site pushes the idea of a community of people ready to help harder than its readily available archived resources.

I don't think ignoring the people who ask for help is the right way to approach the issue. It doesn't hurt to spend a minute (a minute that you'd probably spend browsing this site anyway) to offer your assistance, even if it is just a generic copy-and-paste answer.

Okay, guilty as charged! =] I'm a Top Contributor who has a text file I wrote because I see this question so often. I don't think not answering it will solve any problems (this is all voluntary anyway, if you don't like the question just ignore it). And yes, people are lazy and could search the archives!

But I have gotten such nice responses from some of the people I answer that I don't mind. My take on it is I am giving a response that (1) tells them how to achieve this effect, (2) gives them a lesson in certain concepts about Photoshop, and (3) maybe does them the favor of helping them understand how to NOT mess up their original images (all too many people just open an image and edit the life out of it and then of course want to go back to the original and just don't understand what happened!)

If 10% of the people I respond to use my tutorial and learn something from it, it's worth it to me.

Believe me, I am much more bothered by the "rate me" type of questions, and the high contrast ugly color cast images that so many people think are so cool. Not to mention all the different questions from people trying to "get Photoshop for free." And I have a text file for that too! "Photoshop is Not Free." =]

Isn't "ignoring" a question pretty much the same as "boycotting" it?

Besides, one doesn't have to be a "Top Contributor" to know the correct method of doing this. If someone wants to earn his points by answering this, and other common questions, then why bother trying to stop them? You can't, anyway.

And, this ain't no fad! It's YA newbies that tend to ask these kinds of questions, and, there will ALWAYS be newbies. My take on this is to just let others answer them. Besides, most of the questions are asked in a form that makes it impossible to really give a helpful answer. Usually, the asker doesn't bother to tell what software app they are using. It really DOES depend on what kind of software they have.

Good luck with your "boycott," but I don't see much hope in its success. Remember, how many "Top Contributors" will have, actually, READ your post? You'd have to repost that MANY times, in MANY categories for MANY days. And, guess what? This kind of reposting of questions is as annoying, if not more, than the different newbies asking the same question. Being new, at least, they have an excuse for doing it. THAT question will plague us forever.

Hmmmnn. I just noticed. You have a TOTAL of 342 answers. Do I detect the scent of a newbie? To give you your props, I'll congratulate you on the fact that a full third of your answers are "best" answers, but, wait until you start exporing the "Drawing and Illustration," "Painting," and "Software" categories. The same question pops up there and in other places.

I haven't answered one of those in months, where have you been? I figure there's enough answers out there to be searched for anyone interested in knowing. You can be annoyed, or you can choose not to answer them. The quicker you realize this, the longer you may hold on to your Y!A profile. We've all gone through being disgruntled, but you've got to stick with the spirit of this forum in order for it to work the way it has been intended. It's really a genuine question, to be honest. Perhaps some people just don't know they can search for similar questions to which there are answers, before they ask. Or perhaps they view this as just another social networking site and wish to be "seen" rather than heard. Who knows, who cares really?

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To those who don't know, the TC badge accounts for the percentage of best answers in the specific category of top contribution - not overall. If you stop answering, or your best answer percentage goes down, you loose it. I've lost and regained mine like 3 times. Sometimes I just get bored.

I'm not really into answering those questions, so I can pledge with second thoughts at all. It works. I won't answer any of them.

Edit: Very good point, Amy... The "Rate me" shots are sorta bad... Another big one is "How do I remove a watermark in photoshop...?"

Since I have no idea how to do it I just ignore "selective color" questions and keep looking for one that allows me to use what little I've learned in 37 years of pointing cameras at things.

What took you so long to figure this out? LOL! I haven't answered one in many months.Just skip right over them. I only get annoyed when it's not in the topic and I open it thinking it's some new interesting question. :-(