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Originally Posted by RB
That's exactly what I was trying to convey in my last post too.
There is lovely work being done across the whole spectrum of astrophotography, why should we be antagonistic towards each other because of which equipment we use.
I'd rather learn from others, not have ill feelings and misunderstandings towards each other.
Let's have our 'show downs', our 'competitions', lets compare images but lets do it in a civil and courteous manor and think about how the other person feels when they read our posts.
To me this seems a more adult way to act and at the end of the day it's all in fun, it's a hobby LOL.
Yes sorry to get off topic Scott, looking forward to some extraordinary images this year as our equipment and skill progress.
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Surely there's no harm in lighthearted challenges. If you aren't interested in them then don't participate in the thread, pretty simple. Sure some posts can become a little off topic and personal and I don't like those either but lets not get too precious and way over politically correct, after all this is an Aussie site and we are proud of of our ability to be jockular (Peter Garett?) and can take it on the chin if someone says their car goes faster than ours, I mean who cares? It's "just" one of millions of web forums afterall. So far I haven't seen the "my car goes faster than yours" thing delivered in anything other than a fun lighthearted way...?
We aren't just here for the newbies either, sure we can and indeed want to help where possible but we shouldn't stifle our perosnalities to be seen to be doing the right thing, like self ritious role models, otherwise this forum would be mighty booooooring IMO.
Nothing worse than a forum that feels compeled to only say "Terrific image" or "Nice work" we are all individuals and should, within limits, be free to express ourselves.....silly pointless challenges can be one of these expressions
Just my thoughts
Mike