You have little or no control over a conversion from TIFF to jpeg. I was happy with the conversion which clipped the blacks. The image you posted in Reply#10 is a png image and not a jpeg. According to my research it is rarely used on the internet because it has less compression than jpeg. Please post the image again in jpeg so that there is a better comparison. The blue indicates it is the black clipping in LR. If so can you tell me if you had LR set to Adobe's default which isn't zerod but has a contrast boost which makes the blacks even more blacker...
You are hairsplitting and grasping at straws here. Several members noticed the clipped blacks. It is so obvious that it does not need measuring. However, in the spirit of "critique" (supposedly objective) vs. "criticism" (subjective), I offered an objective measure of the clipping via LR. You seem to be disputing even that.
As you can see from the attached screenshot, LR does not boost contrast to imported jpegs, nor does it change the embedded profile to Adobe's default.
As for png vs. jpeg: screenshots on my Mac are automatically generated as png. Since it does offer less compression, it is thus supposed to be better for comparison, not worse. But, since you requested, I did convert it to jpeg, first at maximum quality (middle shot), then to minimum quality (rightmost shot). If anything, the minimum quality (i.e., the most compressed jpeg) results in slightly less clipped blacks. I would suspect that is because the image I work with is much smaller than the original (i.e., less pixels to play with during compression). But clipped it stays nonetheless.
Here is what I do when posting jpegs of my own images here: I noticed that my jpegs are generally darker and more contrasty than the file I worked on in LR; part of it can be explained by smaller size, part by the whitish background they are posted against here. Therefore, I either add ⅓ of a stop more exposure or so before converting, or open up shadows a bit.
...The inclusion of the "joke" wasn't in any way related to the thread's content. It could be seen as hurtful to members who are black. Did you think about that? In the last few months you seemed to have fallen out with a few of the members of the forum. Is it accidental or just careless?
Your PC analysis of my jokes and my interaction with other members isn't in any way related to the thread's content either. But since you brought it up, let me say that I have no problem "falling out" with
some members of the forum. I can't please everyone, especially not on the Internet, where it is absolutely guaranteed that there will always be someone, somewhere, offended at some point by what I say (or anyone else, for that matter). I've had very, very few people on my ignore list, none currently and no current member either (which is telling in itself - those few who were on my list where banned from LuLa soon thereafter).
There are many members of the forum whose opinions and comments I respect. If some of them would tell me I am wrong (as some did) I am open to reconsider my position and apologize, if necessary. Then there are some other members I really do not attach much importance to what they think or say about me. In other words, and to answer your question, it is neither "accidental" nor "careless."