Hello Ted,
I have read through yours and others arguements and thought about them.
Of course the ships should be about shipspotting. I am happy, to find photos of old coasters when I am looking for them, when I am searching for them. As well older ferries and so on.
It is true, private photographs by Captains etc. do really belong here. Press photos, I would say no.
I also would not say, that there is an overwhelming amount of old ship photos from press etc. on this site, if I compare with what is here on modern ships.
What makes this all go sour, is following and already some time ago some members have discussed to change it, but unfortunatelly nothing happens. So, perhaps someone of the admin team will read this, and they can talk about it, and perhaps it is worth to change:
The Top Three are very often old ships, and NO I do not complain that they are old ships, but it is obvious that they are "pushed upwards" somehow, very often they also remain there without comments. And, this SHOULD NOT BE!!! And I also believe this is, what Ted does not like about it, together with the fact that some are press archive photos.
I personally would think, that skipping these Top Three would be a good thing, I find it annoying because it is not really top three but the photos are artificially pushed upwards, either by links or by more and more comments.
Said my word, now I am courious, what YOU think about this?
Greetings, and a Merry Christmas,
Cornelia