Giana posted at 3:50PM Thu, 28 January 2016 - #4251749

" it seems to me that a certain kind of feedback is essential to growth in anything. how can things be improved if the only views that are offered up are only those that will be perceived as purely positive? logic tells me that to come at things from that perspective could mean working out true issues takes far longer than necessary because issues were not met head on or directly. in that interim, more of the community walks away...

hopefully everyone will find an eventual, realistic balance :))

quick question:

"You may disagree with members, but if it’s in a vicious manner, it will not be acceptable..."

it seems to me to be pretty straightforward a thing, that sentence above, and surely we are all adult enough to be able to determine exactly what the word 'vicious' is, and can tell whenst a comment/post is intended as such.... but what if certain people are just way too overly sensitive and cannot tell the difference betwixt constructively intended words vs. true venom? what then?"

I understand your concerns and there is little I would disagree with in your comments. The most important part however is the words you use "surely we are all adult enough" well sadly this does not appear to be the case. Just look in the Poser forum and you will see some very 'non adult' behavior in some of the threads. Strange point is that often the very same people, but often with different names, behave very differently in other forums, where they have the conversations along the lines that you have set out.

I honestly think the forums can be turned around but it is not going to happen today or tomorrow, not even next month, as it has slipped quite a long way. You have to start somewhere and at least some have taken it on board to make a start and they have done so after some very negative comments in the forums. Debate is rarely wrong and most the time informative but when it gets personal the argument is lost and the debate ceases to be worthwhile.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.