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40D CAUGHT IN A STAREDOWN!
Annika1980 wrote:
Who will blink first? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/100386480/original Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. -- lsmft |
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Annika1980 wrote:
On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote: Annika1980 wrote: Who will blink first? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/100386480/original Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3 different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to each Newsgroup, that is somehow better? I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit the same thread on all 3 groups. And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you in charge. So STFU! FU GAME, SET, MATCH. Always the winner! |
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Annika1980 wrote:
On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote: Annika1980 wrote: Who will blink first? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/100386480/original Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3 different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to each Newsgroup, that is somehow better? I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit the same thread on all 3 groups. And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you in charge. So STFU! FU GAME, SET, MATCH. The real problem with cross posting on the scale you and a couple of others are doing is that the groups lose their individuality. Most people will subscribe (or not) to a group because it offers some unique quality they like. Wether or not you do this on purpose or whether it is a by product of your quest for popularity is immaterial. You are actually diminishing the usefulness of each group by cross posting. Take out your posts and those of Mark Thomas and Troy Piggins and there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting a group. Certainly anyone seeking to participate in a camera hardware forum would steer well clear of RPE.35mm and aus.photo. In fact the only remaining newsgroup offering any useful information is Alan Browne's creation: RPD ..slr-systems and even that is being destroyed by spammers. Me and big squid. |
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* 2SQUID wrote :
Annika1980 wrote: On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote: Annika1980 wrote: Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3 different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to each Newsgroup, that is somehow better? I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit the same thread on all 3 groups. And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you in charge. So STFU! FU GAME, SET, MATCH. The real problem with cross posting on the scale you and a couple of others are doing is that the groups lose their individuality. Most people will subscribe (or not) to a group because it offers some unique quality they like. Wether or not you do this on purpose or whether it is a by product of your quest for popularity is immaterial. You are actually diminishing the usefulness of each group by cross posting. Take out your posts and those of Mark Thomas and Troy Piggins and there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting a group. Certainly anyone seeking to participate in a camera hardware forum would steer well clear of RPE.35mm and aus.photo. In fact the only remaining newsgroup offering any useful information is Alan Browne's creation: RPD .slr-systems and even that is being destroyed by spammers. I don't understand something. We're posting links to photos in photography related groups. I do it for comments and critique because I'm always learning, can't answer for Mark or Bret but they both have way more experience than me. I know both have recently been trying out new techniques as have I. I couldn't care about popularity, and they're hosted on my own site so it's immaterial how many hits I get. I'm sure the others couldn't care less how many hits they get too. I note you don't mention Rita and D-Mac. And if we stop posting what we believe are on-topic, photography-related discussion threads, you are saying there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting the groups. And that's what you /want/? I don't get it. Ok. Can you please explain which of these groups is the one where it is only appropriate to post links to photos, which one it is only appropriate to discuss hardware, which one it is appropriate only to have discussions about general photography topics? Please link me the groups' charters supporting your answers. I'm sure there are other groups, but these are the ones I frequent: aus.photo rec.photo.equipment.35mm rec.photo.digital rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Personally, I don't think it's people posting photos that's killing the groups, it's the other noise - flame-wars and off-topic discussions. -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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* Troy Piggins wrote :
* 2SQUID wrote : [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 25 lines snipped |=---] Wether or not you do this on purpose or whether it is a by product of your quest for popularity is immaterial. You are actually diminishing the usefulness of each group by cross posting. Take out your posts and those of Mark Thomas and Troy Piggins and there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting a group. Certainly anyone seeking to participate in a camera hardware forum would steer well clear of RPE.35mm and aus.photo. In fact the only remaining newsgroup offering any useful information is Alan Browne's creation: RPD .slr-systems and even that is being destroyed by spammers. I don't understand something. We're posting links to photos in photography related groups. I do it for comments and critique because I'm always learning, can't answer for Mark or Bret but they both have way more experience than me. I know both have recently been trying out new techniques as have I. I couldn't care about popularity, and they're hosted on my own site so it's immaterial how many hits I get. I'm sure the others couldn't care less how many hits they get too. I note you don't mention Rita and D-Mac. And if we stop posting what we believe are on-topic, photography-related discussion threads, you are saying there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting the groups. And that's what you /want/? I don't get it. Ok. Can you please explain which of these groups is the one where it is only appropriate to post links to photos, which one it is only appropriate to discuss hardware, which one it is appropriate only to have discussions about general photography topics? Please link me the groups' charters supporting your answers. I'm sure there are other groups, but these are the ones I frequent: aus.photo rec.photo.equipment.35mm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I just checked that charter for this group. I won't be crossposting links to photos in there any more. Sorry. rec.photo.digital rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Personally, I don't think it's people posting photos that's killing the groups, it's the other noise - flame-wars and off-topic discussions. I think the others are still ok from what I just read. -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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RIGHT ON BRET
"Annika1980" wrote in message ... On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote: Annika1980 wrote: Who will blink first? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/100386480/original Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3 different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to each Newsgroup, that is somehow better? I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit the same thread on all 3 groups. And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you in charge. So STFU! FU GAME, SET, MATCH. |
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THE LORD wrote:
RIGHT ON BRET "Annika1980" wrote in message ... On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote: Annika1980 wrote: Who will blink first? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/100386480/original Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate hits to your site. I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3 different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to each Newsgroup, that is somehow better? I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit the same thread on all 3 groups. And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you in charge. So STFU! FU GAME, SET, MATCH. |
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Troy Piggins wrote:
* Troy Piggins wrote : * 2SQUID wrote : [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 25 lines snipped |=---] Wether or not you do this on purpose or whether it is a by product of your quest for popularity is immaterial. You are actually diminishing the usefulness of each group by cross posting. Take out your posts and those of Mark Thomas and Troy Piggins and there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting a group. Certainly anyone seeking to participate in a camera hardware forum would steer well clear of RPE.35mm and aus.photo. In fact the only remaining newsgroup offering any useful information is Alan Browne's creation: RPD .slr-systems and even that is being destroyed by spammers. I don't understand something. We're posting links to photos in photography related groups. I do it for comments and critique because I'm always learning, can't answer for Mark or Bret but they both have way more experience than me. I know both have recently been trying out new techniques as have I. I couldn't care about popularity, and they're hosted on my own site so it's immaterial how many hits I get. I'm sure the others couldn't care less how many hits they get too. I note you don't mention Rita and D-Mac. And if we stop posting what we believe are on-topic, photography-related discussion threads, you are saying there is hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting the groups. And that's what you /want/? I don't get it. Ok. Can you please explain which of these groups is the one where it is only appropriate to post links to photos, which one it is only appropriate to discuss hardware, which one it is appropriate only to have discussions about general photography topics? Please link me the groups' charters supporting your answers. I'm sure there are other groups, but these are the ones I frequent: aus.photo rec.photo.equipment.35mm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I just checked that charter for this group. I won't be crossposting links to photos in there any more. Sorry. rec.photo.digital rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Personally, I don't think it's people posting photos that's killing the groups, it's the other noise - flame-wars and off-topic discussions. You're 100% on the money there, Troy. It did occur to me that you also post to three groups as the troublemakers do, but then I thought that since you live in Oz, you weren't messing with that group as it's yours. And x-posting to rpd gives a wider audience, don't think anyone objects in the slightest. Adding a third group, rpd-slr may or may not be in line with general netiquette, but I cannot imagine even this curmedgeon objecting in the least, as you are posting, not trolling or warring, or "educating the lesser beings", etc., etc. Please keep up the fine work; just don't let it go to your head! :) -- Regards, John McWilliams |
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Helen wrote:
On Jul 19, 6:36 pm, John McWilliams wrote: THE LORD wrote: RIGHT ON BRET Why bring alt.morons into this? And yes I'm sorry but I crossposted. Could we perhaps get back on topic about photography! Why not start by critiquing Bret's work? Because recently Bret's been on about ego, not photos. But I would like to discuss the can of powder against a black bg. Interesting, and well done. How? -- john mcwilliams |
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* John McWilliams wrote :
Troy Piggins wrote: [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 38 lines snipped |=---] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I just checked that charter for this group. I won't be crossposting links to photos in there any more. Sorry. rec.photo.digital rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Personally, I don't think it's people posting photos that's killing the groups, it's the other noise - flame-wars and off-topic discussions. You're 100% on the money there, Troy. It did occur to me that you also post to three groups as the troublemakers do, but then I thought that since you live in Oz, you weren't messing with that group as it's yours. And x-posting to rpd gives a wider audience, don't think anyone objects in the slightest. Adding a third group, rpd-slr may or may not be in line with general netiquette, but I cannot imagine even this curmedgeon objecting in the least, as you are posting, not trolling or warring, or "educating the lesser beings", etc., etc. Please keep up the fine work; just don't let it go to your head! :) :) I'll try. -- Troy Piggins I always appreciate critique. |
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