Bas

Same here. At least fora that MAKO2011 moderates.

Bas

Yes, there was a time that camera was quite popular and even adored. There was such a thing as "Kodak Colors". Enjoy! I love old cameras too!

Bas

It's not until you are banned that you realize that you have zero rights and can be eliminated at will. No trial, no jury, no questions asked by anyone. Is that a society one should conform to? Personally I will not post again in MAKO2011 moderated fora. In the meantime giving the good examples here seems like a good plan, yes. At the same time blowing off steam is so understandable, if you've been made mouth-dead at DPR without any form of discussion.

Bas

It seems so yes. I made a public post questioning the deletion of an earlier post. Still, what's the point of deleting completely harmless posts in a forum that is next to dead? Off topic or not. And the forum will we even more dead now, I was one of the few active posters. Now that I think of it, most fora that MAKO2011 is moderating are pretty quiet, if not dying.

Bas

[quote="@simplejoy"]
I'm not sure that's really going to be my list at the end of the year, but for now, that's what I came up with:

Hi SimpleJoy, just wanted to say that I like your photos a lot and I think you are a true artist! Probably will look you up at Flickr.

Bas

No idea how what the official name of the insect is, but it likes flowers...

Spider macro of last summer.

Kind regards,
Bas

Good that you mention it, I started to use USM over the old school sharpening parameter in DPP, maybe I will tone it down notch.

Bas

Well, the Leica 28/1.7 has quite a good macro mode, so that might explain some of it, yes.

Bas

Depends how you look at it. If you mean did I had any harmful intentions to the forum and/or members, the answer is no. I just had taken a few looks in the Leica forum and saw some great stuff especially from the Leica Q series, which has a fixed 28/17 prime. Still some shots had tremendous subject isolation, which I wouldn't have thought was possible with a WA lens and that is exactly what I wanted to discuss. And also I saw a quality that was different from Canikon FF images, and this intrigues me. Off topic? Quite possible but the discussion would be interesting, and WHY then such panic in a forum that is half-dead anyway? Chances such an off-topic discussion would derail the the superquiet forum are zero. Still I realize that that some people in the forum could have complained about the post and MAKO2011 reacted on that.

Bas

PS: there was a time where DPR apparently suffered from bots, and the policy back then was to sandbox all new users. But MAKO2011 kept users sandboxed for weeks and weeks even after they had posted dozens of posts. I mean after a couple of approvals it should be clear there is no bot, right? But, no, he kept approving post after post for weeks. What kind of personality does such thing? Until forum members started to wonder "and all these approvals are still necessary because of bots?" ;-)

The old town of the city of Leer in northern Germany.

Bas

[Edited by Alan to show the picture]

Actually it's interesting that you both mention the many references to Sony and this makes it even stranger. One post "do you ever peak in the Leica forum" and asking a question about the deletion of that post. That was enough for MAKO2011 the trigger-happy moderator.

Bas

It's always the question, if a moderator starts interfering, if this is a reaction to other people complaining. Perhaps more often than not this is the case. Doesn't change much, anyway.

Bas

Wow, that is scary. Where there is power, there is abuse of power, it can take a while but eventually there are no exceptions. I tried to contact Simon Joinson, but can't send private messages.

Bas

Gerlof, is that you? Thanks for the warm welcome :-)

Bas

[/quote]

Have you written to Admin via the Feedback form at the bottom of the page. It takes a couple of days, but you can usually get reinstated if they feel the moderation has been too harsh. It worked for me a few times when I was victimised by a Fanboy moderator.
It was explained to me that they do not like comments that challenge the beliefs of those emotionally attached to their brand of gear.
[/quote]

Thanks for the pointer, though I am not sure I am going to beg to be reinstalled. I think I now rather will avoid all forums that MAKO2011 is moderating. It's cool that I still have a voice here, after being made "mouth-dead". I see I can not send private messages, but the feedback option escaped me.

Bas

No arguments with other users, no hot debates nothing. Just saying that the Leica Q3 images, with it's fixed 28/1.7 lens inspired me, and making a philosophical comparison with Canikon fullframe got my post deleted. My post title was "do you ever peek at the Leica forum". But low and behold, this was posted in the Canon full frame 5D/6D forum, what a TERRIBLE mistake! When I asked it this was normal moderation behaviour to remove posts like this, BOOM post deleted within 10 minutes and I am now sandboxed. Member since 2005, made thousands of posts, posted SO many images, participated in challenges.

DP Review folks are not realizing how damaging MAKO2011 is to themselves and how many users he has driven away from Dpreview.

Bas

One week ago I made a post in the DPR 6D/5D forum, where I (after posting many many 6D images before) I made a comparison between Canonikon IQ and Leica IQ, especially the Q3 impressed me. Because of the subject isolation they can pull off with a 28/1.7 lens, which I wouldn't have thougt was possible. I was intrigued and inspired, so to say. BOOM post deleted: off topic. Made a new post where I questioned this deletion and asked it this was normal moderation behaviour. BOOM post deleted within 10 minutes, and I am now too sandboxed. Can't send private messages. Posts have to be reviewed. Moderator: Mako2011.

If this is the kadaver discipline we have to follow, I'm out of there. I will not post again in any forum that this Mako2011 type is moderating. He is driving the last actiive users off the forum. I think DPR staff is not aware of the damage this Mako type is doing and how many users he has estranged from DPR. There's no way to appeal or complain. Even access to other users PM is cutoff. Indeed, North Korean practices.

Bas