Posting rules
Just paid a visit to a Finnish photo forum. Have to investigate it further… but I just got so excited on reading their forum guidelines (quick translation mine):- this has been your hobby for a while and you have gotten over the first rush of owning a new camera
- you want to develop in your hobby
- you want to have feedback
- you understand that a numerical evaluation represents opinion
- you understand your style and subjects will not appeal to everyone
It’s the fourth point that bugs me. It’s the same on fotosidan.se actually, you can set points to photos, but you can select to turn off this option when you post an image. I have never liked that. I always turn it off for my posts and I have never given points to anyone. I believe in verbal communication instead. A number does not equal valuable feedback in my mind. If I don’t like the image at all, I just skip it. If I like it, the least I can do is to say so.
But otherwise, I genuinely think that fotosidan would benefit from similar guidelines. If not for all forums, then at least for the Image Critique forum. It’s unbelievable what crap gets posted in the critique forum - and that’s not an opinion, it’s the absolute truth!
Anyway, I have get back to browsing the Finnish forum. The Swedes are too nice, and the Finns are… well, brutally honest!
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