No need to take it personally or become sarcastic. Just an attempt to keep this thread as what it is meant for. Thank you.

Harriet wrote:

No need to take it personally or become sarcastic. Just an attempt to keep this thread as what it is meant for. Thank you.

That's up to the mods, not random members. That's why we HAVE mods; so that they can keep things in order.

TeeJay wrote:

SolarSystem wrote:

kittykat wrote:

Keep the postcards coming, TeeJay! 

Sadly enough, there are only five. So that's it for postcards in this thread, I'd say.
 

I can post them again, just for the sake of it. Maybe turn them by 90° for some variety. 

That'd be cool 

TeeJay and Kitty, Harriet is right. This thread is indeed for the comparison of film and book, not for five big pictures of admittedly nice postcards. That is the reason why we have several threads for some films with respective titles. Please consider this when posting. Thank you. 
 

Sorry, but you tend to post very large pictures and not one or two but five or even more at a time. We have had this discussion before and people were always quite understanding. I mean, one can get quite enthusiastic about Benedict but I prefer to appreciate one picture at a time instead of being overwhelmed by a whole series and I know I am not the only one. We have never needed an express rule for this. 

Actually this is not the place for such a discussion but I am going to answer here because anyone may know my thoughts. 

It is absolutely fine that you love graphic editing but this is a Sherlock forum and posting pictures is only one element among many others like discussions and games. Most people find pictures they like somewhere on tumblr or other pages or do screenshots themselves and post them here. My impression, however, is that you mainly concentrate on presenting your own pictures here in a way that is sometimes just too much. 
And one thing - I really do not like your way of trying to put me in the wrong. We never had rules because we never needed them. This is all I have to say in the matter. 
 

TeeJay wrote:

You can't always please everyone, but you're effectively stopping me from posting things I have a passion for in a thread that is, out of the whole message board, probably the most fun to actively particpate in.

I don't really want to get involved in this discussion, just wanted to mention: The Picture Thread is a lot of fun with pics of all kinds of sizes and resolutions - as can be seen every day. Most pics posted there aren't of too immense a size, and it's still fun. Just look at some of the pretty tiny gifs.
I understand where your passion lies, but is it really that unthinkable to post some of your pics in a somewhat smaller size? The ladies in the thread would certainly enjoy them just as well - and in the end that's why we all post in this thread, isn't it? To give some pleasure to the other members. And this also works with smaller pics.
 

SolarSystem wrote:

I understand where your passion lies, but is it really that unthinkable to post some of your pics in a somewhat smaller size? The ladies in the thread would certainly enjoy them just as well - and in the end that's why we all post in this thread, isn't it? To give some pleasure to the other members. And this also works with smaller pics.

It's not unthinkable, of course not. But it's double work for me since I post my images in the resolution I create them elsewhere and then link to them here on the forum. If I wanted to post them in a smaller size just for the forum, I'd have to resize them and upload them again just for that one thread. Yeah, sorry, my passion doesn't go that far.

And I certainly never intended to come across as wanting to advertise my work or pushing it onto people. I always thought the idea of fandom was to share a common passion for a show or an actor we all like. And if one happens to be a creative mind and make their own stuff rather than taking someone else's stuff and reposting it, isn't a fandom message board the place to share your creations?

Now you're going to say that's what the fanart section is for. But what if it's fanart that beautifully depicts Benedict? There's always these borderline cases where it could go one way or another.

But, you know, I hear what you're saying. We'll have to agree to disagree on this. I'm not sure if it's necessary to rediscuss the whole rules thing. I don't want to make things more difficult for everyone, so it's probably better if I just hang back for a while.

TeeJay wrote:

 If I wanted to post them in a smaller size just for the forum, I'd have to resize them and upload them again just for that one thread. Yeah, sorry, my passion doesn't go that far.

You don't need to re upload at all When putting img codes in, say you have a 1024x720 picture for example, and you want to make it smaller just halve the size and put this in the code. [img=512x360]
So your total code would be [img=512x360] (imagelink) [/img] 

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Thank you for coming back to topic. The book is worth reading, one of the most impressive and challenging things I have read for years. I read it before watching the film. It is not strictly necessary to know the novel but it will make things much easier to understand. 
You can have a look at the discussion in this thread where we talked about individual scenes, how the characters are portrayed, etc.