I received this email yesterday. Locked

Neil -

I disagree with some others where although this IS a gear forum dedicated to and I quote "Nikon FX SLR (D1-D4, D600-D800) Talk", you can't always talk "gear" like cameras without the question:
"How does this picture look? I took it with such and such settings, this lens, and blah blah"

I've browsed DPR for 12 years, used to learn a LOT about both the gear and photography, but ever since picking up my D800e and browsing this forum of late, it's 60-70% you looking for compliments on your pictures, you bragging about what other people not on the forum has said to you, or someone else (we all know the names) totally sick of it and calling you out.

You're more co-dependent than the clingiest girl I've ever known and resorting to elementary school levels are constantly the guy going "are not" while everyone else is going "are so". Do I think you should be banned? No. Do I think you need to take the hint and do I think the forum needs an ignore option so those of us who know the only contribution you bring to the forum is posts of your own pics - without any of of your own critques or insights - and it's just making a mockery of what should be the more PROFESSIONAL of all the forums on DPR (given the equiptment) Now, I'm referring to type of people buying these cameras, not whether or not you get paid to take them.

This website is and always has been "Digital Photography Review", basically news, rumors, and reviews of digital cameras and accessories. There is a "Portrait and People Photography" forum on the site, that's where most of your posts belong. But a post like this one, I don't know where it belongs, but I know it doesn't belong here. If for no other reason than that no one gives a $hit.

Respectfully,

Kevin Park