W/R winterrose- FYC?
Dec 4, 2016 20:19:57 #
Feeling Your Constraints? Find Yourself Calling for help? Fancy Your Chances of learning anything?
There once was a place where competent photographers gave sound advice but that was before it was turned into nothing more than a farce.
Having successfully driven away all the knowledgeable and experienced serious photographers and digital imagery artists who, for a brief moment of time believed that here was indeed a section where with an emphasis on photography, one could explore art, learn techniques, and become better at our craft, the Section has finally been fully taken over by a rather patronizing and sanctimonious school Marm and Mother Hen known as Main Lindy.
By her very omnipresence, this omnipresent managed to bamboozle the small remaining membership into thinking that she has rather more than the rudimentary knowledge that she actually has, but she does, in fact, as much struggle to produce a decent snap as any of the others.
She presides over this group, the CLC, the Cozy Little Club, who fancy themselves as sufficiently and suitably qualified to critique the work of the blow-ins who occasionally visit to submit a picture for consideration either out of idle curiosity or more probably in a fit of unrealistic expectation to receive something, anything, in the form of a suggestion for improvement that might be of use.
Such visitors soon come to realize that as each and all of the regular group, that Cozy Little Club, themselves ask each other for help on an almost daily basis, theirs is very much a case of the blind leading the blind.
There is in the Section a policy requiring that respect be shown at all times or to suffer the pain of harsh and immediate retribution. This was introduced by the moderator to preclude personal attacks but with Ms. Marm now fully ensconced and calling all the shots she feels free and only too willing to apply the rule to anyone daring to make comment on the often ludicrous statements that she and her chosen few frequently come out with.
The best form of defense is attack as they say, so this rule requiring the show of respect only applies to those not embraced by the sanctity of membership to that Cozy Little Club.
Respect has, and undoubtedly will again at any time, and at the whim of said School Marm, be thrown out the window when it comes to directing personal attacks at all or any above-mentioned commentators; as was clearly demonstrated when she specifically recruited three notorious trolls to maul and taunt one such individual recently.
That appalling demonstration of cowardice included the foulest of vile name calling and unfolded over a large number of pages with the full blessing of the Section Moderator who deliberately sanctioned it to continue in full view for all to see for maximum impact and exposed the true underlying base nastiness that resides within that Cozy Little Club.
Make no mistake, lurking not far behind Ms. Marm’s façade of welcomes and fawning is a dark and insecure remnant of what was once a promising and informative Section.
There once was a place where competent photographers gave sound advice but that was before it was turned into nothing more than a farce.
Having successfully driven away all the knowledgeable and experienced serious photographers and digital imagery artists who, for a brief moment of time believed that here was indeed a section where with an emphasis on photography, one could explore art, learn techniques, and become better at our craft, the Section has finally been fully taken over by a rather patronizing and sanctimonious school Marm and Mother Hen known as Main Lindy.
By her very omnipresence, this omnipresent managed to bamboozle the small remaining membership into thinking that she has rather more than the rudimentary knowledge that she actually has, but she does, in fact, as much struggle to produce a decent snap as any of the others.
She presides over this group, the CLC, the Cozy Little Club, who fancy themselves as sufficiently and suitably qualified to critique the work of the blow-ins who occasionally visit to submit a picture for consideration either out of idle curiosity or more probably in a fit of unrealistic expectation to receive something, anything, in the form of a suggestion for improvement that might be of use.
Such visitors soon come to realize that as each and all of the regular group, that Cozy Little Club, themselves ask each other for help on an almost daily basis, theirs is very much a case of the blind leading the blind.
There is in the Section a policy requiring that respect be shown at all times or to suffer the pain of harsh and immediate retribution. This was introduced by the moderator to preclude personal attacks but with Ms. Marm now fully ensconced and calling all the shots she feels free and only too willing to apply the rule to anyone daring to make comment on the often ludicrous statements that she and her chosen few frequently come out with.
The best form of defense is attack as they say, so this rule requiring the show of respect only applies to those not embraced by the sanctity of membership to that Cozy Little Club.
Respect has, and undoubtedly will again at any time, and at the whim of said School Marm, be thrown out the window when it comes to directing personal attacks at all or any above-mentioned commentators; as was clearly demonstrated when she specifically recruited three notorious trolls to maul and taunt one such individual recently.
That appalling demonstration of cowardice included the foulest of vile name calling and unfolded over a large number of pages with the full blessing of the Section Moderator who deliberately sanctioned it to continue in full view for all to see for maximum impact and exposed the true underlying base nastiness that resides within that Cozy Little Club.
Make no mistake, lurking not far behind Ms. Marm’s façade of welcomes and fawning is a dark and insecure remnant of what was once a promising and informative Section.
Dec 4, 2016 22:52:35 #
Oooops?? mcveed, on FYC, started a topic about.... the old Critique Forum! ....not a continuation of
some painful thread 3 mos.ago about FYC.
some painful thread 3 mos.ago about FYC.
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