Faa Glitch In Submitting Images To Groups
There is a glitch in the FAA process for submitting images to the groups. I describe my experiences below and welcome everyone’s opinion on the subject.
(1) First off – and this is a practical issue rather than a glitch – the number of images that can be submitted to groups, is limited by FAA, based on “a 24 hour period”. For practical reasons, I feel, this should be based on “per calendar day” rather than “per 24 hour period”. That would work perfectly, even if we all live in different time zones.
(2) And now … about the glitch:
Let us take for example, a group which accepts 3 images per day – ie, actually, “3 images per 24 hours”.
Sometimes my images do not get submitted even though my previous submission was more than 2 days earlier.
At other times I only manage to submit 1 or 2 images (instead of 3), even though my last submission to the group was more than 24 hours prior to that.
I think that the FAA system does not count its “24 hours” based on MY exact time of submission, but rather, the date & time at which the group administrator processed that image and removed it from the group’s “pending” folder. This is a major problem.
Here is a real case (real data) from my recent experience :
A certain group accepts one image per WEEK. To this group, I submitted an image on 9th October.
On 12th October (Sunday), the group administrator moved the image out of the “Pending” folder and into the “Active images” folder of that group. (BTW, thereafter, when I look at the image in the Active folder of the group, the “Date of Submission” itself is marked as 12th Oct instead of 9th Oct!!!
On 13th Oct, as the new week had started, I tried to submit my next weekly image to the group. The submission did not go through… the system rejected it saying that it was not within the allowed limit. It should have allowed my image, as my previous submission was on Oct 9th.
I think this is a major issue. This glitch severely obstructs my attempts to submit images to groups in an optimal way. For example, for groups which accept 1 image a day, even though I try to submit exactly one image per day, I manage to submit only around 15 or 20 images in a month, instead of 30. Your views are welcome, thanks.