Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] TID>Being Polite
From: Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:34:51 -0500

You can always be politely honest.  I've tried to make it a personal policy to
be polite on the Net despite being flamed a few times.  One should never burn
any bridges behind them.
Bud

"B. D. Colen" wrote:

> Eric - I couldn't agree more that one doesn't do someone any favors by being
> "polite," rather than honest, when asked to comment on any form of art.
> However...There's honest and honest. Under normal circumstances I would
> never call someone's work "Crap"-which I did in this case - even if I felt
> it was.
>
> B. D.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:56 AM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #365
> >
> >
> > At 09:46 AM 10/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >photos - the rection would have been infinitely more factful and
> > polite, if
> > >not necessarilly more positive.
> >
> > Yeah, that's probably right. He deserved hard criticism. But
> > then, he ought
> > to count himself lucky. We were honest, not polite. Politeness in photo
> > critiques hardly helps photographers improve. It can, if not used in
> > moderation, cause them to be complacent.
> >
> > Note Shutterbug Magazine. Lots of photos in that magazine (not ALL!) are
> > terrible. Some technically so. Yet the goal for them isn't
> > probably art. Or
> > they wouldn't be writing a techie article to start with. No?
> >
> > This guy was an "artist." Letting himself open to a lot of
> > "interpretation."
> > --
> >
> > Eric Welch
> > St. Joseph, MO
> > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
> >
> > "What a waste it is to lose one's mind -- or not to have a mind. How true
> > that is."
> > -Dan Quayle addressing the United Negro College Fund
> >