On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:15 -0400, "Doug Franklin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-07-01 18:31, Brian Walters wrote: > > > Back on topic - the debate about 'no holds barred' critiques of images > > comes up regularly and never seems to get resolved. Surely if someone > > post an images and says "comments, suggestions, criticisms welcome" (or > > something similar), we are entitled to take that request at face value > > and comment accordingly. > > Who's face value? Yours or mine? I've happily coexisted in "bare > knuckle" debate societies for which "Fuck you, you fucking fuck" was the > standard opening line, and it wasn't window dressing. But only a small > minority of participants really want that sort of openness, can really > deal with it when directed at them, regardless of their protestations. > > I'm not picking on you, Brian, I don't know you that well. But if > you've been around the Earth for very long at all, you know the people > I'm talking about.
Well, OK. But I still think this issue is being over analysed. All I can say is that if I ask for critical comments on one of my images, I'm not going to take it personally if I'm told it's a pile of dog vomit - provided I'm also told why it's a pile of dog vomit. Whether I eventually agree with that assessment doesn't really matter - at least it will force me to look at the image again in a different context. Reading some of the other comments on this thread, I don't think I'm the only one who would appreciate fair and honest feedback. > > Respectfully, of course.... > > Basically, that's where it all goes wrong. Too many people can't, or > won't, maintain the "respectfully" part of the deal. I don't know that I'd agree with that, if we're taking about the PDML specifically, but there's always the delete key for such situations..... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
