Moshe--

You raise valid points. There also some other points to consider. I am one of those who posts minimally here, although a few of my significant photographs can be found in the archives. They were posted before I made the decision to mostly stop. Several factors contributed to that decision.

Many of my photographs are high resolution images with a significant amount og fine detail. Some are stitched panoramas of multiple high resolution images. There is no way that my original intent survives the downsizing required to make them fit the forum's upload restrictions.

Most of the photographs I have taken over the past few years have been at school for the yearbook or other internal usage. I am not allowed to share images including students, and I will not violate the privacy of teachers by publishing their likenesses.on the forum.

I have still not completely decided whose opinions I trust and whose I do not, nor whose comments would be helpful and whose would just be distractions. Since I do have a cadre of trusted friends who are accomplished artists and historians and scientists and teachers, I have chosen them as my "share partners." We have open discussions of each others' work.

The pragmatic reason I don't post here is that I'm not interested in having my images scraped and circulated and perhaps having their ownership stolen.

As far as participating in discussions of equipment, technique, and process, the jury is still out on that. There are a number of subject areas in which deeply imbedded misinformation makes learning more difficult than necessary and performance less effective than reasonably expected. Fads and trends further complicate the effort to achieve best practice. Photography is one of those. I would really like to be part of correcting errors and making better photographers. I do not know that this forum is a reasonable place to spend a lot of effort to work to make that happen.

I don’t know if it’s quite that simple. I think there are plenty of people here that can give great advice, that have a great understanding of techniques and tools, but maybe lack in artistic sensibility. By the same token there are those with a great eye that maybe lack the technical expertise to fully bring their vision to fruition. I’ll take advice from either in the areas of their strengths. I occasionally post in the gallery but it’s pretty rare because I don’t spend much time there. I find it’s mostly well-executed snapshots. I do like it if during a discussion in the main forum a poster includes a photo as a demonstration of the topic being discussed.

I agree with Grahame…I don’t post many shots because I’m not looking for adulation from anybody…or even contempt or disdain. I come here for ideas that I might borrow…and to fight against the brand/format/whatever fan boys…because in the end none of that matters. Steve a Perry says…and I wholeheartedly agre…that a good image is defined by the 80/4 rule…8p% of. Good image comes from 4 inches behind the viewfinder. Brand, format or whatever doesn’t matter. Any camera you can but today will produce good images…some enhancements will increase the keeper rate but I’ve got good photos I took back in the 70s with a film SLR that had no auto anything.
Unfortunately…there are too many here that think brand or sensor size or mirrorless vs DSLR are the only way to get a good image…but those people are…bluntly…full of crap.

When I first came to UHH I thought it was a photo sharing network. That's how I have thought of it ever since, and how I describe it when talking to people about where and what I do with my photos. I guess I will have to re-assess my thoughts on this.
I enjoy sharing my photos and I enjoy seeing others photos. That's what I'm here for. I do enjoy some of the conversations that come up, but that is always as a secondary consideration. I'm not a gear expert. And not even close to an expert on the computer side of digital photography. I don't understand very much of that, and really don't want to except when something wonky happens that I have to engage with to be able to get back to what's important, which is the photography.
I do agree completely with the original poster, Moshe, when he says that taking criticism from someone who doesn't post photographs just doesn't work very well for me.

Many thanks. I try to impress the idea that experience, knowledge, skill, and practice are more important than what camera is used.
A DSLR can take images that are no different than those produced by mirrorless models.
Not everyone can afford to switch brands are move to mirrorless.
If you look at every successful professional or amateur, they all will tell you skill and knowledge are important to taking successful images. Most will not mention the camera used because it is not that important.

I couldn't agree more!!!!!
I am currently in between locations and haven't posted much lately...But I will resume posting when that makes sense. In the mean time, many of my past posts are available for viewing for anyone interested.
I don't have many heroes, but TDR is one of those few!
GREAT POST!!