I'm not a subscriber? Do you mean I've been posting on his site for years and don't subscribe? I'm still confused. How do I become a subscriber?It is only visible to subscribers.
Actually, even when having had a subscriber status I did not come it across.
Oh. It's Mapplethorp. Thanks. He can stop rolling over now.Alan, I corrected jtk's misspelling of Mapplethorpe up above. It appears he jumped your ass without knowing what he's talking about. Now show some respect!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MapplethorpeOh. It's Mapplethorp. Thanks. He can stop rolling over now.
Subscription is a very reasonable price. Keeps this place alive. This is the most comprehensive photo joint onlineI'm not a subscriber? Do you mean I've been posting on his site for years and don't subscribe? I'm still confused. How do I become a subscriber?
It's probably obvious but I'll say it anyway: all topics, including photography, have a political angle. Just look at the reactions when someone posts about photographers who depict LGBTQ+ people in a positive light. The bully pulpits get instantly set up.
Still, as long as there's photography involved, I'm OK with politicized discussions/topics on Photrio. But only insofar as they concern photography: I'm also OK with you removing the soapbox, because it's just dead wood. The photo-political discussions may require moderation to avoid flame wars, but you will have fewer threads to watch anyway.
This plus those that post nonsensical stuff just to get their post count higher.
Where would I find your photos? Maybe I;m missing something but I only see one picture here posted. Do you have another site? Link?
I do think we should be focused on photography, but ... I have not tracked any of the unpleasantness mentioned. It's generally easy to avoid: don't frequent unmoderated forums, ignore obnoxious posts and block regular offenders. Serious offenses can be reported. One can always decide to visit photrio less often or even take a break for a while.We're working on this, with better tools in the new version which is close to launch. One thing we do not have resource for is to monitor an off-topic area full of bickering and fighting. It's not worth it. We couldn't control it so left it off topic, but it's gotten too much, it has to go.
Perhaps I can provide something: Let the original poster, the originator, have ownership of the thread.
I reject this, as then a thread likely turns into a pure self-presentation of the OP, or a call to only discuss his special issue, as in a private councelling.
The merit of a forum to be of mutal (the OP vs. the community) benefit would then vanish.
I have an Instagram account - that amounts to the same thing. But I think posting photos should be a more natural part of membership of this site. With even commenting not granted to regular members, and the fact that gallery access would go poof if you stopped subscribing, there's not much incentive to even look at what people post there.
Anyway, the Soapbox. Discussing religion, politics, social issues, etc., is not the problem. Those are things that should be discussed, can benefit people by discussing them. The problem is how insulting and belligerent people become. There are truly insulting personal comments sitting around in all corners of this forum - they don't seem to get deleted. Why is that?
Bravo...this is addressing the offenders, who abuse topics, both photographic and non-photographic.
My own feelings closely mirror those expressed by Sirius Glass...a few children pee in the pool, and the need to control them is the rational approach, rather than closing the pool..
When there is a way to post photographs and not have them copied [Read: Stolen]. I will again post my photographs, but not until then.
Because Alan Edward Klein is not the owner of PHOTRIO, Sean is. And Sean has from the very beginning banned political/religious discussion in the regular forum categories. Perhaps you'd like to start your own photography/politics forum and let things go wild. That would be fine.Why is it necessary to eliminate political thought or disagreement?...
Many of the so-called political ideas that get injected into regular forum category threads are personal attacks. Perhaps not on any persons participating in a particular thread, but on others in the political sphere. The days of civilized politics have been over for a while....I think the issue is personal attacks. As long as we're debating ideas, even political ones,s, there' no harm, no foul. It's when people start to attack others personally that it becomes a problem...
If people feel my work is good enough to steal then I'm flattered.
The days of civilized politics have been over for a while.
...The days of civilized politics have been over for a while.
It's most certainly true in the U.S. A small minority of the many political figures here whose politics are obvious attacks on the persons they look down upon maintain a veneer of civility. Don't be fooled by it.That's not true at all. The majority of political interactions that take place in the world are civilized. When people spit insults at each other, they're not talking politics - they're spitting.
It's most certainly true in the U.S. A small minority of the many political figures here whose politics are obvious attacks on the persons they look down upon maintain a veneer of civility. Don't be fooled by it.
It's most certainly true in the U.S. A small minority of the many political figures here whose politics are obvious attacks on the persons they look down upon maintain a veneer of civility. Don't be fooled by it.
Look at some of the online video documenting U.S. city council meetings, county government meetings, school board meetings, etc. Then reconsider how much "civility" you've seen.The political sphere is very very large and encompasses everything from unions to police departments to city halls to county governments to regional governments to state governments to international relations. The vast majority of interactions that take place within those realms are the very definition of civility.
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