Religion, politics, sexual orientation, and race are not good topics for any forum, and generally ignite a purposeless day or two of hostility. Inasmuch that they have nothing to do with Pentax or photography, they are best avoided.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are photography forums that are so closely monitored, one can get a reprimand for bringing up the topic of fountain pens. Just last year, I got a rebuke for asking for opinions on folding bikes on the LUG. Jeffery On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Tom C wrote: > I'm not condoning name-calling or derision of any list member, however > I didn't find it as gratutiously offensive as you apparently did, and > the one called that is certainly public about it. > > There's been plenty of other deriding comments on the list in the > past, including regarding people with religious beliefs. I didn't see > list members raising a hoopla about that. > > Seems a double standard exists. > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Because it was gratuitously offensive? Because its sole purpose was to >> offend? If Robb wanted to call him that, he could have done it offlist, but >> wanted an audience to see it. The audience saw it. If this list were >> entirely composed of racist, sexist, homophobic members, then that sort have >> post would have gone either unnoticed or been applauded. But some of what >> are apparently the "idiotic" members didn't like it, and nobody applauded. >> >> Jeffery >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
