After the duck's pond, it seems we have now a piranha's one.

What a mess ! and what happened to this "community" !

As Pushinfaders said "this community has been through a lot in recent history. The staff we have now is working hard to restore the sense of community this forum once had" Hope they will succed to do something.

Most of the old ones have been pushed away and the new one can't insert. Why ?

I think that first RR is very slow now (much slower than months ago) and personnal ambitions of some members is to monopolize the getting scarsed comments  and flattery seems to be the best way to get them (no matter if the photography is good or not) and it becomes an inner circle of self congratulation. It has always been of course but it's now a caricature here. Sometime revolting or simply ridiculous.

It's unfair to say it's the same in other photography site. I'm now in a French community and in the community of "the 117 otherwise sad has-been members" and I can assure you that if nothing is perfect, you don't feel the hate between members as you feel it here.

@terra Dreamer: I'm not against paying something to be free in a gallery. Here I think  you can have this free gallery because people like me buy a lot of Poser's stuffs (dont forget we are in a merchant site).

Have a good day

No regrets to have left but hope to come back a day in a more serene and objective place.

 

 

Lledeline