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This is an interesting view on internet critique and the quality of your photography. It's a different view on why you suck.

http://kennethjarecke.typepad.com/mostly_true/2012/02/chances-are-you-suck.html

hmm, i am wondering why DSLRusers is not on teh list of links....

biggerry wrote:hmm, i am wondering why DSLRusers is not on teh list of links....

Like +1 or whatever social network protocol suggests I agree with your comment (whether I do or not is irrelevant)

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Good link Suren, thanks for posting. And great commentary so far, keep it up!

Cheers
Steffen.

Interesting observations there and contrary to other things - not that I'm saying the observations are wrong.

As we moved from real person discussions to online discussions, people generally become less polite. It is not all that common on DSLRUsers but we see it from time (e.g. the D800 thread). It appears, however, with critique we are too polite.... interesting.

ATJ wrote:Interesting observations there and contrary to other things - not that I'm saying the observations are wrong.

As we moved from real person discussions to online discussions, people generally become less polite. It is not all that common on DSLRUsers but we see it from time (e.g. the D800 thread). It appears, however, with critique we are too polite.... interesting.

That would be because critiquing someone's opinion (using the D800 thread as simply an example) is less personal than critiquing their artistic endeavours.

Reschsmooth wrote:That would be because critiquing someone's opinion (using the D800 thread as simply an example) is less personal than critiquing their artistic endeavours.

Indeed, but that wasn't my point - well not really...

Before Internet, people were brutally honest with critique (at least according to the blog and I have no reason to dispute that) but in an online realm they are so polite as to be basically useless.

Before Internet, people were generally polite in discussions, even on controversial topics. Even now if we were to discuss various photography topics at a meet, I would expect everyone to be polite. In online discussions (and perhaps DSLUsers is not a representative example), discussions often get completely out of hand with people being very impolite and flaming, etc.

What I was doing was commenting on the difference in how these two activities changed through online use.