Why is this forum so depressing?

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sgoldswo
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Re: Why is this forum so depressing?
In reply to Peng Bian, 6 months ago

Peng Bian wrote:

This may be the most active m43 forum, but it's also the most depressing. It seems 1 out of every 2 posts is someone arguing with someone else.

Just now, I saw:

- A post about m43 lenses possibly having better performance at larger apertures, an interesting topic turn into a religious debate on when/why one should stop down.

- A post, seemingly a troll post to begin with talking about how m43s are losing their size advantage and becoming same size as dslrs.

- Same posts about people either inquiring into implications of smaller sensor size getting scolded, perhaps because their intentions were misunderstood, or full on trolling posts about the so called inadequacies of 43 format.

There is trolling, complaining, whining, tech obsession, fanboyism you name it. It's lively though and most of the posters, even the mad, bad and dangerous to know ones know a good bit more about photography than many of the posters on other mirrorless fora. But that it seems to me is life on a very active forum.

I guess my main point would be that a lot of people enjoy it the way it is, so (within reason) try and enjoy it as it is (if you don't want to argue you don't have to - there are a lot of pure photography posts too) or try another forum.

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