1st Impression, Join the Forum?


1st Impression, Join the Forum?

I watched this forum for a while before I decided to join in 2019. I'm glad I did, however recently, if watching, I wonder if someone would enthusiastically join.

This was based on my initial experiences when joining the Sony Cybershot Forum on Digital Photography Review (dprreview.com) back in 2012.

Sony had announced a new game-changing camera, and I was among many wanting to learn more before it became available.

After joining, I found there were some nasty people, and many members who wasted their and everybody's time baiting and arguing, on and on. My 1st impression was not good, however, the coming camera (rx100m1 late 2012) made me stick around.

Thankfully, the nasty people went elsewhere, thus poor reactions lessened, and if someone joined after that, their 1st impression would be as it is now, one of the friendliest forums on the site. It has stayed very positive since around 2013.

Humor, I'm all for it, one mistake is to assume people 'get' my sense of humor, and I forget that English is not some members primary language.

I'm certainly no one's mom, morality police, but I would like to be proud of the forum.

 

elliottbnewcombjr

I joined not too long ago.  I don’t have the history or co text of many of you.  
 

The insights and posts I have read here have dramatically helped improve my system and probably have saved me a good amount of money in helping me avoid errors.  
 

I am grateful not only for the posts I’ve participated in, but numerous others that I tag and read responses to.  Very helpful. 
 

That said, I didn’t fall off the turnip truck this morning. There has been a recent uptick in trolling.  I do my best to ignore it and not feed the trolls. I’m sure I will fail at some point but I do my best.

CTL

It’s been my forum of choice for a while. There’s less of the unpleasantness that is common on other forums. It’d be a shame if the bots spoil that. 

I'm also a photographer. Photography is active, while audio is passive. I need to do something to get a photograph, but consume pre-made audio recordings. 

@pindac Re combinations, there are plenty out there in photography land as well, particularly once you go into the specialty areas such as LF and IR/UV. Just considering tripods makes one's head spin: wood, CF, Al, Mg, 3-4 sections, center columns, heads (ball, pan-tilt, motorized). Then filters. Digital workflows are likely more involved than in audio. I still shoot mostly MF on FF dSLR with Zeiss glass. Easy to see the difference for instance with lateral color.

Disagreement is healthy. Feuds, sigh, move on. The biggest complaint about agon is with including images in posts. Well-known issue, no need to rehash.

This site is pretty good in my opinion. I am also on Canuck Audio Mart, and somehow I spend nearly no time there.  However, I have found that on Canuck site there are virtually no nasty or rude comments.  That could be my lucky experience, I just don't use that site much.
Pentax Forums ( I use Pentax and have been since high school ) has never had nasty, rude comments.  Very knowledgeable and helpful.
I believe there is an offshoot section for another major brand, most likely Nikon/Canon. A camera is a tool for getting images, and a means for applying all that background knowledge and ability photographers use.   

@oberoniaomnia 

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/posting-photos

1. the image must be already anywhere on the web

2. right-click the image: copy image address

3. this window: top bar, 6th icon from the left, IMAGE, click it

4. a window opens, waiting for you to paste the Image's URL (it's address on the internet). Paste the Image Address in that URL box

5. width: enter 600 (the height will be automatically entered)

6. click OK

maybe you can tell me how I am explaining it wrong, because I have written the solution several times, and otherwise intelligent people aren’t getting it.

reminds me of when people could not set the clocks in the early VCRs, thus they couldn’t set the guide to record, thus worthless.

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I just re-wrote the instructions, a bit differently

@billstevenson , others

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO COPY AND PASTE ??????????????????

what is unclear? have you tried it? try it right now! That’s an order!!!!!!!!!!

1. prep: open a post your response window, see the top bar of icons, see 6th from left, icon of sun over mountains (Image), you will use that later

2. new browser window, go here:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/threads/mini-challenge-818-whats-the-story.4839069/#post-68715226

3. hover your pointer over this image (or any following image you like)

 

4. right click, a pop-up window appears: find and select ’copy image address’ (it’s url)

5. back to post window, click the image icon, a dialog box pops open, an insert already blinking in the url line, waiting for you to:

6. paste the image address you copied (it’s url)

..................................

not done, now it’s about preventing distortion, you will change the width

7. width box: delete whatever is there, change it to 600.

8. click OK

The clock is ticking!!!!!