I'll agree with your "consensus rules," graywolf, except the one about
cat pictures. Let's have not more pictures of cats, only nice dog
pictures!!!
graywolf wrote:
Not rules, Don, just general consensus.
For Sale (and Want To Buy): Pentax stuff anytime. Although many only
want to have to look on Fridays, and prefer "For Sale Fridays". Most
of us would prefer that you limit any non-Pentax stuff to Fridays as
well.
Ebay: It is all right to mention things "YOU" have up for sale. Do not
mention other stuff until it is over. An exception is obviously funny
and BS stuff like the 11 million dollar Canon 1Ds digitals, or
non-photographic stuff like the wedding dress that was the basis of a
long thread here a while back/
Politics/Religion: Since some of us, me up toward the top of the list,
can not seem to remain civil in these kinds of discussions we very
much prefer not to have threads about them on the list. This is
violated often, until someone goes off the deep end and then most of
us shut up.
Guns/Cat Photos: A former popular list participant swore he would
leave the list if anyone mentioned them. He left anyway which shows
that you might as will ignore such stuff. However, many consider
Guns/Abortion/Etc as part of Politics and Religion, so generally they
should be avoided. Although Cat Photos are now seemingly OK again.
Flames/Trolls: People who can not keep from continually attacking
others, or who insist on trying to incite folks to anger should be
totally ignored, these are the only folks I filter out of my mail
stream, and I would suggest everyone else do the same. For they will,
if they have their way, destroy the nicest mailing list on the
Internet. Note: losing your cool now and then is not the same thing at
all, or I would have to killfile my own posts (embarrassed grin).
PAW-- Photo A Week (also PESO-- Photo Every So Often), a thing
introduced to the list a while back by Shel Belinkof where you can put
up a photo you want commented on and folks will tell you how you
should have done it (grin).
WOW-- Work Over a Week, similar to the above where you post a photo
somewhere that folks can download it, and they run it through Photo
Shop or whatever to show you how they would have done it. Seems like a
good learning tool, but I have not seen any lately.
Those are the only ones I can think of that have mass general
agreement, though common courtesy is always appreciated here. Some
folks do not like the off topic stuff, but we who engage in it are
usually the old timers here, and are not going to pay much attention
to them (grin).
99.9% of the people on this list are great wonderful terrific (add 16
more superlatives of your choice here) people who anyone would be glad
to have as friends. I especially know this because many have gone out
of their way to help me from time to time.
We talk about doing this about twice a year, but it never seems to go
very far. So, if anyone has additions, changes, or corrections let me
know and I will edit this and put it up somewhere it can be accessed
at anytime.
