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Merkle923 · 03-31-2017, 01:23 AM

There's a policy here of attributing all posted photographs, accurately, as best as can be possibly determined. The moderator shares an image, it winds up elsewhere on the net, reposted here and credited to another source - there's nothing more annoying and nothing more disrespectful to the etiquette here than for somebody to not even take the time to do a simple search to see if the image they are about to post is actually from here. It happened to me a few weeks ago and was never even acknowledged by the poster, who had already been banned once and is back here under a new identity.

When politely asked about this - and I'd underscore this again, by the moderator who keeps this site going - instead of "oops, sorry, had no idea" we get a paragraph-long defensive, petulant lecture and the moderator gets blamed for not immediately remembering and re-posting one of the, what, 5000 images he's already posted here? He gets told to "check his ego" the same way I was called an "elitist" for asking that we not let this thread turn into just another site full of the same baseball cards that can be found anywhere and everywhere else.

It's unacceptable.

I have been largely avoiding the site lately and am going to give it a day or two's thought but my inclination is to depart permanently. My livelihood comes from politics and there are sites in that field with better conduct on the part of posters than I've seen here recently - and that's saying something.

03-31-2017, 01:23 AM	#30614
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,171	Enough. There's a policy here of attributing all posted photographs, accurately, as best as can be possibly determined. The moderator shares an image, it winds up elsewhere on the net, reposted here and credited to another source - there's nothing more annoying and nothing more disrespectful to the etiquette here than for somebody to not even take the time to do a simple search to see if the image they are about to post is actually from here. It happened to me a few weeks ago and was never even acknowledged by the poster, who had already been banned once and is back here under a new identity. When politely asked about this - and I'd underscore this again, by the moderator who keeps this site going - instead of "oops, sorry, had no idea" we get a paragraph-long defensive, petulant lecture and the moderator gets blamed for not immediately remembering and re-posting one of the, what, 5000 images he's already posted here? He gets told to "check his ego" the same way I was called an "elitist" for asking that we not let this thread turn into just another site full of the same baseball cards that can be found anywhere and everywhere else. It's unacceptable. I have been largely avoiding the site lately and am going to give it a day or two's thought but my inclination is to depart permanently. My livelihood comes from politics and there are sites in that field with better conduct on the part of posters than I've seen here recently - and that's saying something.