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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: dwdallam on May 10, 2010, 05:07:37 am

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: dwdallam on May 10, 2010, 05:07:37 am

Thread here:
http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtop...p?f=8&t=538 (http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=538)

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: feppe on May 10, 2010, 06:50:07 am

Quote from: dwdallam

Thread here:
http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtop...p?f=8&t=538 (http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=538)

This should be in Coffee Corner (if even there).

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: william on May 10, 2010, 09:52:24 am

Thanks for posting that.

Quote from: dwdallam

Thread here:
http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtop...p?f=8&t=538 (http://www.paulcbuff-techforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=538)

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: Ben Rubinstein on May 10, 2010, 11:15:09 am

I think that using this forum to leverage your argument with Paul there is not a good idea. As it's politics it's a very very bad idea.

Oh and just to put it into perspective Paul dislikes me personally, I'm no fan of his. Bringing flame bait politics into this forum and potentially to advance your own position in an argument is trolling of the very worst kind. I hope this thread is deleted immediately.

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: Kirk Gittings on May 10, 2010, 11:25:12 am

Though I agree with many of your points in that forum, it has no place here. On the photo forum I moderate, from very painful experience, we have outlawed discussions of politics and religion. This thread would have lasted two seconds.

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: Hank on May 10, 2010, 11:45:21 am

Quote from: Kirk Gittings

this thread would have lasted two seconds.

That long, huh?  You're a pretty liberal moderator!

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: Kirk Gittings on May 10, 2010, 11:55:31 am

Quote from: Hank

That long, huh?  You're a pretty liberal moderator!

We tried a painful experiment, letting people post for discussion pretty much whatever they wanted in a Lounge, this is at the LargeFormat Forum (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/index.php). There came a time when if you pulled up "New Posts" the first 15 posts would be politics. One out of three threads were nasty political discussions (and even threatening at times) with nothing related even vaguely to photography. So we clamped down-to most peoples appreciation. A handful cried censorship, but it is now a friendly place to hang out and discuss PHOTOGRAPHY!

Title: Paul Buff Threatens to Boycott California
Post by: wtlloyd on May 10, 2010, 11:56:45 am

Just read some of the link...

Jeez, everybodys got an opinion...who woulda thunk it.  

There's a historic precedent, however. Ford auto sales remain unaffected.