Welcome to Our Photo Forum!

We encourage our registered members to share photos of interesting conditions or cases. In order to submit a photo, you must first register on our Web site as an ophthalmologist, optometrist, optician, optical technician, optometry student, retail executive / manager, or supplier / industry professional. Once you have a professional user account, you're ready to begin.

Below you will find some rules and regulations and an explanation of the moderators’ rights and responsibilities. We ask that all site users who post photos to please abide by these guidelines.

If you have a specific question about the Web site please contact us and we will respond to your comment or inquiry directly.

Rules and Regulations

All case photo postings are subject to the terms of use ("TOU") that you agreed to when you registered for this site. Here are some tips and guidelines that build on those TOU.

• Be Courteous
  Although we do encourage a lively debate on the site, we ask that all users please remain courteous, polite, and respectful to other users. It is acceptable to challenge another user's comments or position on an issue--but please refrain from personally attacking and insulting other users. This includes adding any sarcastic or snide comments.
• Post as Yourself
  Although we do not require that you post using your real name (make sure your user name is not similar to your real name to maintain your anonymous identity), please do not misrepresent yourself or submit postings under an identity (individual or company) that is not your own. We also ask our users to maintain only one account on the site and that you post all content under that one account.
• Stay on Topic
  This is a professional Web site that revolves around optical issues and topics, and all comments should be related and relevant to the case posted.
• No Advertisements
  Please do not post any marketing messages in your posts. This includes any solicitations to our readers for commercial or promotional purposes of any kind.
• No Profanity
  Please refrain from using any foul language in your postings. We also ask that you do not link to any external sites with objectionable or offensive content.
• Keep It Clean
  In addition to foul language, we will also not tolerate any obscene, sexually explicit, racist, or hateful language of any kind. Any postings with this type of content will immediately be deleted and associated user accounts will be closed and banned from our site.
• Stay Safe
  Although this is a community site and we encourage you to make connections with other registered members, please keep all public postings safe. Do not post any private or personal information, such as your phone number, home address, or e-mail address. This also includes posting other people's private information.
• Use Good Grammar
  We encourage site users to use correct spelling and grammar (as much as possible). We generally will not edit any postings; however, if we feel that the grammar and sentence construction makes your posting very difficult for other users to understand, we might edit your post for clarity. We also ask that you keep your postings as clean, simple, and readable as possible—please avoid using all capital letters, excessive use of bold, underlined, and italic text, and overuse of any punctuation marks and symbols.
• Avoid Plagiarism
  Please do not include any content that you did not write or create yourself (except briefly for editorial purposes) in any of your postings.

Uploading a Photo

Once you've created an account on our Web site as an ophthalmologist, optometrist, optician, optical technician, optometry student, retail executive / manager, or supplier / industry professional, click on "Cases" and then “Case Photos” to add your photo. On this page, you will be asked to enter a title and caption, as well as the image. Before submitting a case photo, please review our "Tips and Suggestions" section below. If you have any specific questions or problems submitting a topic, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you with any problems.

Tips and Suggestions

• Respect Patient Privacy
  Make sure that no patient in your image can be identified by name or physical features. Do you need a signed release to post this image on the site? If you do, make sure you have it before you post the photo.
• Write Descriptive Titles
  Write brief but complete and descriptive titles. We want other site users to be able to find your content--the clearer your title, the more likely other site users will view your image and comment on it.
• Report Inappropriate Content
  Any site user who feels that a post is objectionable in anyway (obscene content, profanity, vulgarity, racist language, hateful content, spam, self-promotional material, advertisements, etc) is strongly encouraged to let us know by clicking the report abuse links. Any reports will be sent immediately to our moderators and will be handled in the most appropriate way as soon as possible. Please do not reply to any postings that you feel are objectionable.
• Vote on Comments
  If you read a posting or comment that you think was particularly helpful or added new insights into the discussion, vote it a thumbs up! The more votes a comment receives, the more likely it will be found by other site users since comments with high tallies will be featured throughout the site. If you found a comment to be very interesting, insightful, or helpful, chances are another site user will feel the same. Voting on quality comments is also a great way to encourage more helpful comments from all site users. You can vote any comment as helpful or not helpful by clicking the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" image located at the bottom of all posted comments.

Our Rights as Moderators

We reserve the right to delete any postings for any reason, including those that violate our stated forum guidelines. We may also edit certain sections of postings if we feel necessary. The "featured cases" are selected by the moderators, and we may add or remove postings from this featured position at any time for any reason.

For more information, please see our Terms of Use.