Prohibited subjects

**jnantz** · 2-Jun-2015, 14:13

i looked in the guidelines / faq
is there a list of prohibited subjects ?
it says pertaining to LF photography, no attacks &c ..
nothing about off topic conversations ...

a link would be great, thanks

**prendt** · 2-Jun-2015, 14:16

Originally Posted by Sal Santamaura

Either The Lounge should go or the forum's list of prohibited subjects, whether posts address them overtly or via innuendo, needs to be expanded.

+1. What is needed is to prohibit prohibiting subjects.

**Oren Grad** · 2-Jun-2015, 14:21

Originally Posted by jnanian

i looked in the guidelines / faq
is there a list of prohibited subjects ?

The Lounge - An area for off-topic (non-LF, but preferably photography-related) discussion and socializing. Topics and discussions of politics and religion are not allowed, here or elsewhere on the forum, and the forum's general behavioral standards apply here, too.

**hoffner** · 2-Jun-2015, 14:32

We need more Don Quichottes.

**jnantz** · 2-Jun-2015, 15:56

Originally Posted by Oren Grad

The Lounge - An area for off-topic (non-LF, but preferably photography-related) discussion and socializing. Topics and discussions of politics and religion are not allowed, here or elsewhere on the forum, and the forum's general behavioral standards apply here, too.

huge thanks oren
and paulr

+1

**Jac@stafford.net** · 2-Jun-2015, 16:00

There is so much in my seventy-years of living I do not understand, except just that.

Certain subjects clearly grab some people by emotional strings that some of us cannot understand. Then someone else who has opposite impressions will bark back with feelings that they cannot, or do not want to understand.

There is a expression from Allan Watts: "The Wisdom of Insecurity" that I believe could save us if we embraced our ignorance and let go so that we might understand, or at least make distance from our prejudices, and suffer less from our own prejudices - which actually hurt the prejudiced rather than the subject.

How does this relate to large format? Ask at your own risk.

**hoffner** · 2-Jun-2015, 16:03

Originally Posted by paulr

I have no issues with the lounge. But the outright hating on a fellow photographer (Liebowitz) is unprofessional.

Remember the over 200 posts long thread trashing Peter Lik photograph for 6.5 million $? Those were the times!

**Oren Grad** · 2-Jun-2015, 16:34

In our society, at the present time, deeply conflicting views on this topic are widely and strongly held, with both political and religious dimensions never far from the surface. The Forum is not the place to debate this issue.

I have deleted the Lounge thread in its entirety as well.

The way to keep this a welcoming place for all is for everyone to stick to photography, and to our guidelines.