Forum: Photography


Subject: My entry for... the Hot-20 !!!

GiMi53 opened this issue on Feb 22, 2005 ยท 54 posts


Nasht posted Wed, 23 February 2005 at 7:51 AM

my two cents about it (please forgive my english): I think the "top 20 thing" is right and i works well, but in my opinion is the beahviour of the people here in RR that is a bit strange. I mean, I have another online gallery that is much more "free" for judgement. Let me explain: I think here on RR there's a sort of gentlemen's agreement that says "do not say bad things on other people pictures". I dunno why but I truly feel that kind of sensation when reading people's comments about my work or on other's one. And I do the same! I mean sometimes I feel "forced" not to express my personal opinion on an image just because it would be "not friendly enough for RR"... And so, when I dont like a picture I just avoid commenting on it. But I really think that this is wrong! Because I, among others, would need to have the bad things pointed out on my work in order to improve... otherwise... where would be the point in showing them? Just to read a bunch of "excellent" or "great shot" or whatever without any other comment? But a community is made of people and the behaviour of a community is made by the behaviour of its members! So my suggestion is to change our way of commenting by using all the "tools" we got here from ugly to excellent and by pressing the vote button for the most captivating, original, unique or technically perfect pictures we see around here. That way the top 20 should start to work again. I don't know how many people shall follow my line, but I'm telling you I'm starting right now. ;) Thanks to GiMi53 for putting the issue out. It made me reflect on this point...