As a member, you are free to post some of these images you've created out of nothing. AP doesn't impose any limitations for you to post
the same ol same ol.
ACTUALLY!!! .... if you'd taken a few seconds to study the figures more carefully, instead of wasted those seconds spreading more misinformation, you would see that in the respective fora sub headings, of the combination of formal and posed and candid threads posted, a member is more likely to have (averaged out) over 10 replies to each thread, whereas the land and sea scapes were under the 10 replies per thread ratio.
The bird forum is also a high response area, and some of the other nature topics seem to have even more than 10x ratio too.
These figures seem to be at odds with your 'demographics' theory!
That there are more landscape threads created is not really a demographics issue, it's simply a by product of the interests that the members of a community seem to have.
AP is not a
model mayhem, or
fashion R us centred community. The scope of the forum is broader than just one single topic of interest.
You don't require an especially high intellect to see these figures, and they are not hidden for only the mods to see.
As an example:
birds |
6317 threads |
55321 posts |
1:9 threads to replies ratio |
land/sea scapes |
7643 threads |
67943 posts |
1:9 threads to replies ratio |
candids |
1312 threads |
9664 posts |
1:7 threads to replies ratio |
formal/posed |
1938 threads |
21207 posts |
1:11 threads to replies ratio |
(numbers have been rounded(up/down)
It's pretty evident here which genre will be more likely to attract comments, and what type of images are likely to effect a higher reply ratio.
But that is a simplistic outlook on the topics when they're averaged out. Exceptional images will generally elicit a higher response ratio, but this is a not fact.
In many cases, posted images with an apparent lower standard of presentation can still attract many responses, but the difference is that these responses are usually directed at the flaws in the image and how to better improve on it.
Many landscapes threads on AP are centred on this aspect of photography ... self help improvement.
But of course you don't have to take my word for it .. JMT is the expert on how AP works and runs .... and with respect to photography in general ... not to mention demographics!!
Look at any general photography forum/community and most if not all will have a higher number of
landscape centred threads than any other single photography genre.
It's just the nature of the beast, and that landscape photography is an area of interest for most photographers.