I have ran in to this on the app Threads. Very condescending and opinionated. Unfortunate

I wont even hangout with my local photographers. Everybody judged WAY too much in the photography world.

honestly man most people who spend a significant amount of their free time on forums is probably miserable in their real life.

The MagMod Community on Facebook is largely pretty nice and inspirational. But even there, I managed to run into several people who suddenly decided they needed to critique and offer (bad) advice on my photos despite it being a primary rule not to offer unsolicited advice. Anytime I call people out for it, they lose their minds and cuss me out (then get banned). It’s a good time /s But for the most part people are really nice there because it’s active and the MagMod team moderates it.

You could remove “photo” from your question and it would still stand.

In almost any place where people gather - virtually or in real life - it is close enough to a certainty that at some point, however well-intentioned, well-moderated and well-meaning the place is, people will start being a**holes to each other.

I can think of exactly one place where this didn’t happen, and that was on Ming Thein’s site when it was running. The comments section of his articles (which was the closest thing the site had to a forum) was for the most part extremely cordial, or at least polite and respectful. Trolls and other such types were rare in the extreme. I can only guess that people were responding to talent and good writing.

But as a rule, yeah. It’s like that old joke: God gave man religion, and then Satan came along and organised it. In this case it’s like Tim Berners-Lee and the US military gave us the internet / web, and then people took this world-changing technology and used it to belittle each other over petty nonsense that means nothing.

Anyway, everyone knows that Canon cameras are garbage, I’m sorry, I said what I said, GTFOH, etc :-)

That’s literally every Reddit forum unfortunately

No, what you’re seeing here are people who won’t be honest with you and stroke your ego, and you loving it because you can’t take the truth. You’re seeing and hearing what you want to.

Stop going to social media sites, and try forums specifically tailored to & for photographers, but only if you want honest opinions. If not, then you’re right where you should be.

You should see r/beatmatch

Not just outside of reddjt

you lost me at “outside of reddit”. I see many egos here in reddit too. dont let it despair you and never care about downvotes. This is just a website.