On May 25, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Miserere wrote: > > 3) Larry, John Sessoms and Dave Savage seem to have understood what > I'm after:There are a number of PDMLers that are also on Flickr, so > why not give them the option to add their photos to the PDML group so > anyone (whether they are on Flickr or not) can persue these photos > whenever they want to? Would that mean that some of these photos get > comments like "great capture!" posted to Flickr instead of the PDML? > Possibly. But I'd wager that important comments worthy of discussion > would still be made on the PDML.
That is my feelings too. I will post links to pictures and galleries to facebook, and see that other PDMLers do also. There's an occasional comment there, but not really any substantive discussion. > > 4) If there are going to be collaborative projects between a few > members of the PDML, it would benefit both them and those not > participating if discussions took place off list. This could be done > over e-mail, but in my experience it is easier within a discussion > board of some type, and Flickr provides a decent tool for this, even > allowing posting images inline; furthermore, these discussions could > be private, meaning only PDML Flickr Group members would see them. > Lastly, those who are not participating in these projects, but still > have some interest in them, could persue the discussions at their > leisure. > > I created the PDML Flickr group in good faith and was not expecting > such a debate. I thought people would either use it or not, and > depending on that it would either flourish or die. I wanted it to > become a tool for PDMLers, not a bone of contention. But, that would be the reasonable reaction. It's much more fun to see a trigger word, and go off on a rant about the evils of something that you don't like, than to actually pay attention to what was actually being proposed. Some people are simply incapable of understanding the difference between "here is a handy tool for this task" and "you must use this tool for every thing that you do". > > Honestly, I don't know what to do with all this right now. So please > continue your discussions and let me know if you reach an agreement. An agreement will never be reached. Fairly non-productive conversation on this topic will continue until thread drift hits, it will eventually devolve into a series of puns and die out. Meanwhile, those of us who see value in what you did will go about using it, while others will go about ignoring it. On the other hand, it's good to hear back from OzTutu, so some good came of it. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
