I wonder if others find it as insulting as I do to have their postings here referred to as a falling standard and be regarded as having little or no merit.

What a pity some photography members seem to have forgotten about the mission statement above, maybe that is the reason for the falling viewing figures, or maybe it is the elitist attitude of some that puts people off posting or commenting.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html