Event photography: Best practices for getting paid to practice?

[wonkavision]

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[Chris of Arabia]

what trolls usually do is post off-topic comments designed to inflame or incite

You've got that bit right

such as goofy pictures.

This is generally an optional extra

Is this thread worth any more TPF bandwidth or have all the options been explored now?

 

[wonkavision]

Chris,

Who do you blame for wasting bandwidth?

 

[ajcstudio]

hey wonk u have 10 post and they are all for this thread u are just some stupid kid or even worse an adult looking to piss people off stop stalking tpf and then make a username to just arouse people.

 

[wonkavision]

hey wonk u have 10 post and they are all for this thread u are just some stupid kid or even worse an adult looking to piss people off stop stalking tpf and then make a username to just arouse people.

HA HA!

Here we go.

Three claims here:

1. People who have just 10 posts are worth less than people who have 200 posts.

2. I am either a) a stupid kid or b) an adult looking to piss people off.

3. I have been "stalking" TPF and making usernames just to arouse people.

Now, claim #1 is the cause of claims two and three. This is a perfect example of cognitive bias. The online forum user's identity becomes fused with the forum itself, and any attack on the forum (such as a "noob" contradicting "senior users") is interpreted as an attack on the ego itself. Any number of people can fall prey to that, misread comments in their agitated emotional state, and post poorly written/poorly thought out kneejerk responses.

Steve McQueen's first two comments in this thread are a perfect example, assuming he wasn't drunk.

As to claims #2 and #3, can ANYONE find any proof for those claims?

I can go line-by-line and prove the existence of poor reading comprehension, bad spelling/grammar, bad logic, hyperbole, and irrational group behavior; but can anyone prove the accusations that have been made against me?

Accusations, such as that I'm a terrible photographer.

This last set of claims is tantamount to mob violence. It's a group gone mad, flailing its arms and lashing out at a heretic.

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Moderators,

I hope this thread chills you to the bone. You are moderating an irrational mob, and this community's failure is your own.

While I have never trolled this forum, it has proven itself EXCEPTIONALLY vulnerable to trolling. I guarantee you, I could turn this forum into a gibbering loony bin in about five weeks.

I **** on you all.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Oh well...