On the Forum's Value

[jnantz]

i think all the famous people use aliases so we wouldn't have any idea
who they are anyways

[BrianShaw]

I know that's what I'm doing!

[Mike Anderson]

i think all the famous people use aliases so we wouldn't have any idea
who they are anyways

My real name is Cindy Sherman.

[Kirk Gittings]

My real name is Cindy Sherman.

Wow! Great opportunity.

Cindy, what happened to your career?

[ROL]

There seems to be some confusion here about the OP's quote (kvetch). I was under the impression he was quoting from someone else in classified. If his intent was to provoke discussion rather than have it ascribed to himself, it would have been more clear to provide a link.


Other than that, responding to this sensitivity seems to be an exercise in sadomasochism. With that in mind:

forum nutjobs.

GUILTY!

I just try to skip the riff-raff.

Found out.

Some people are on my ignore list.

I'd be surprised if any of my posts are still visible.

I come here quite a bit but I usually avoid posting since anything written is immediately contradicted.

Coward.

There are some aggro people here.

see above.

That said, there are some nice ones too and that makes it worth visiting.

f'ed up in reverse, again.

Lots of experts that never make a photo or talk like they are the bomb but their photos suck.

The only thing worse than people who never post their work is those that do.



P.S. My number one pet peeve? Nutjobs who parse.

[Brian C. Miller]

My real name is Cindy Sherman.

This American Life: Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be

[Mike Anderson]

Wow! Great opportunity.

Cindy, what happened to your career?

I'm still big. It's the pictures that got small.

[eddie]

on the forum's value?

see here:

http://www.valuate.com/

is is valued at $5!

[Peter Lewin]

So far the post that resonated the most with me was Welly's positive take on the Forum. I suspect that part of the reason for a number of complaints is that in any open forum you get a wide variety of members, with many different goals and experiences.

Speaking for myself, I watch/use the forum for a number of reasons, and the order of priority probably changes at any particular time:
(1) Entertainment: I'm retired, photography is a hobby (and has been, for at least 40 years), so it is fun to look at the site simply to see what has been posted recently;
(2) Information: whenever I have posted a specific question, be it on chemistry or scanning, etc., I have received useful responses, and I have learned even more from other people's questions and answers;
(3) Inspiration: I find the "Post Your Images" sub-forum a great place to see what others are doing, and to try and get ideas or motivation for myself.

On the other hand, if I was looking purely for professional networking, or consistent museum-grade photography, I guess I would be disappointed. But for me this is a hobby, and for "great photography" I have purchased prints from far better photographers than I mixed in with my own work on my walls, and at least three shelves worth of photography books (primarily monographs of works I admire), so neither of these is my reason for being part of the forum community.

Bottom line, large format film photography is a pretty small niche, we should be happy that this forum exists at all, and I for one find that it functions very well.

[ROL]

on the forum's value?

see here:

http://www.valuate.com/

is is valued at $5!

Excellent! One aspect of the forum's value is the interface of a basically non digital medium with the unavoidable and necessary digital realm. Case in point, the link given above. I can now say without question and absolute certainty that all here are simply wasting their time. My site, thusly valued at $70, is worth 14 times – yes, over one full order of magnitude greater than this one! The internet has declared it and it is so!!!


FYI: My two other domains, one brand new, and the other undeveloped under my own name, are both apparently worthless. Personally, I am not even a blip on the internet (), while my photography site rules ().