Yes David, I'm baffled too. I suggest everybody just tries to get along and let's have this thread cool down a little.

To answer your question Marat as best I can, the counter is exactly what it says. It shows the number of visits. Whether that's individual visits or discreet visitors I don't know, but people visit the site for more than the forum and also not everyone who visits actually posts something. It in some way measures traffic, just for our interest really.

My own forums also have meters that measure traffic, but I don't make them public. When you set up your website the means to measure these things will no doubt be part of the package.

Hope that helps.

If anyone is trying to start an argument, then please don't. Civility costs nothing after all.

The competition was created because members wanted tasks set so they could go out and shoot them. When most are doing that, it would kind of undermine them if we allowed anyone to take images from their past catalogue.

We can do that in the weekly competition, which does take a bit of the time pressure off that one.

That was a shame as such a lot of effort had gone into the description of the image. It's been removed and I've dropped a PM to the poster to explain the rules.

Please everyone remember that the monthly competition is for new images only. So for the July competition all images should be shot in July.

It's excellent, no doubt about that.

Fair enough, looks like an awesome project as well! Sorry we can't visit it, but I hope you have a fantastic success.

We usually leave before this time, so it's quite clear that we need to stay longer. Many thanks for showing us another face of Whitby.

I think, I hope, that it's down to differences in approach in various parts of the country and world sometimes.

One example is that someone walking into an old-fashioned pub in the North might hear older people saying things like, "Here he comes, the silly old ...." whereas the bombastic greeting is actually being friendly.

This can be very difficult to get across in a written post. Smilies help, and perhaps don't get used enough. Where we fall into disaster is where we aren't discussing photography. And even then sometimes.....

There are a lot of very friendly people on this forum, happy to share their knowledge, including the PU Team.

Payment now received, many thanks, awaiting UK address.

Well, if you could look in the mirror at me like I do every morning, you'd find me for one isn't very scary at all....

Anyway, I'm glad you're settling in now and we'll all look forward to seeing some pictures!