... and what is wrong with 1-liner posts to the deleted thread(s)???
I had to teach you about proper solarizations...
... and what is wrong with 1-liner posts to the deleted thread(s)???
It's either you or Sirius or LXdude... not me.John:
Are you talking about me????
its none of you brian, i am using a popular "fluff" thread as an example.
I think that it is wrong to automatically equate some perceived "rudeness" with malicious intent. Often the person is being brutally frank but that is all.
Mr. Koch, several times in this thread you have made references to what this site is and is not and I think you are, to put it respectfully but firmly...totally out of line. This is a community comprised of all ability levels, nationalities and walks of life. Expectations of what APUG is to each person are as diverse as the people who come here. Some show up and stay, some pass through, like any virtual or in person community.
And yet MY expectations as to what APOG should be do not matter.
Was that intended to be frank, or rude?[/QUOTE][QUOTE="Gerald C Koch, post: 1906796, member: 42449] .. You contradict yourself.
nothing is wrong with that brian
but if a newbie is looking to "post count"
to judge whether someone might have
experience, been here for along time offering help
and sees someone with 20 thousand posts thinking
" this person has been here forever, look at the post count"
only to realize the posts were 19thousand non sequiturs in
a thread that questioned the meaning of life, all made in 12 months and nothing
that has to do with photographic technique, or photography experience ...
it can be a bit misleading is all i am suggesting
in other words, if someone looks at post count
and thinks it is anything deeper than just posts counted ... they might be in for a ride.
I get frustrated at times with the advice to use search, since that so often fails for me. An example, the thread at (there was a url link here which no longer exists) has the words 'Metering for slide film' at the start of its title. A subject I wanted to investigate this morning. But if I search for that exact string of words in titles only, I get no results.
Y'know, a lot of the points in this thread, for good or ill, seem to have been made before in similar threads.
So I'm not sure why the OP didn't just search the APUG archive before starting a new one?
Seems a bit lazy and noobish and, frankly, lacking in moral fibre to me not to have done so without checking, or at least reading a few books before posting .
He must be referring to the creator of these posts
my general advice would be to use them sparingly, if at all
I concur. The "ignore list" isn't the perfect solution; in fact, sometimes it isn't really a solution at all. Perhaps self-control is the best solution. I currently have 2 people on my ignore list but every time I see the "show ignored content" button I seem to press it... just to see what I'm missing. I ignore people who are persistent and annoying jackasses, not intelligent but grumpy and frank/earnest/rude. Maybe I need some self-control too... who knows.I hope Gerald didn't make it onto your ignore list. He's a chemist with a lot of real knowledge on many technical APUG topics, and has always been helpful to people here in my experience. Regarding ignore lists, my general advice would be to use them sparingly, if at all.
why... because fake name or not, all of us internet persona are human beings not automatons. At least I think we are.I like all the different "characters" here on Apug! really, it's just as good as Shakespear, or a Verdi opera. i mean, it all plays out in a fun way. I do not have any person on the ignore list. I always invite opinions that are different from mine. I think most people do. . . ..
regarding expectations on the internet. . . .. .I think most people , and almost all the new generation "understands" the new prevailing attitudes of being trite, petty, rude, obnoxious, flamming as they call it.
on a side note, why DO people take what is said on the internet , Personally? isn't the internet just another fake news? or fake reality? or just a simulation that is not real, more like an alternate ending to on going film, that hasn't ended. I mean, are we not ALL on the ride together.
I find it ridiculous that an "on-line person" (which is usually having a faker name) or an "on-line personality" like an Andy Kaufman type, WOULD BE OFFENDED!! Don't you all see the irony? a fake person interacting with another fake person, getting upset at a flame, which is not real emotive stuff, its junk to fill the void, while your waiting for the cycle to end! be it, in the darkroom, or laundry mat.
or is it the position that people believe they are real! and their on line persona is real too, and if their on line persona is subject to being ostracized or humiliated , that therefor they need to correct the injustice or what some may say . . . .. damaging slander~!
personally, I do not believe for a moment , that an on- line chat rooms are nothing more than an absurd form of entertainment!! it's all soo veryyy foreign!!
so why get upset, when the interactions are not real?
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