It is the photography community to share knowledge, discuss ideas, forge new friendships with others who have a similar passion and interest in photography.
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I must say that I never once doubt that CS is great place for peeps with interests in photography. I enjoy my time surfing CS more than any other sites elsewhere.
CS has evolved into a community as mentioned in earlier posts by some of the Bros.
The community culture is shaped by individuals in this forum.
I can understand the damage a Newbie gets when a questions got shot down harshly. I can also understand the "duh" feeling you get when you felt that a post is phrased out of context , or lacks personal thought process.
I am in a profession which requires me to ask for information from clients all the time. If I dont do my background study and ask a really raw question, I will get it big time from them . Depending on their level of unhappiness, their complains varies from a sacrastic remark on the spot, to a outburst of emotions and to a straight phone call to my boss.
You might say, if they think my questions are stupid and repetitive, they can dont reply me. However, they cannot step away from me because both of us are counter parties in a working relationship which has a common deliverable to our stakeholders.
I also lead a team of professionals under me. Some of them are newly joined staffs straight from Universities who are really green and raw on the work we have to do. Being the project manager, I have an obligation to coach and answer their queries or problems they face on the job.
Being in that position, I can tell you how much we appreciate staffs who take time to read up on background information and updates in the various reports we have on hand , before coming to us to discuss the problem they face and ask for help.
There are some who bring excellence a notch higher as they had actually done their own research and present their facts with their own thoughts on what are the plausible solutions and which should be the correct approach.
Life being life, there are some who will approach me as if I am Google. Instead of keying into the search bar . They ask " How to do this " " Can tell me where to find it ? " " Can you tell me what is the issue"
Typically, I will not blow, and will still calmly coach them and get them to arrive at the information they want on their own. Coaching is very different from telling. If I were to reply . This is A . Or Go to B to find the information. I will not be doing the new staff a service as I am inhibiting his abilities to research and solve problem independently.
I think we all need to exercise the same professional maturity and sensibility on the forum, the same way we do in real life. CS maybe an internet forum where we all post our comments freely and behind a cyber identity, we should exercise basic social manners and social sense.
Having said that, we should also accept that in life, there are not so nice people as well as nice people. We cannot expect everyone to have the same tolerance level or opinions towards all issues.
We say that someone made a comment and a CS member disapproves, instead of shelling the TS, the CS member should not reply. Thats a fair comment.
Likewise, if we see a strongly worded comment made a CS member which we disapproves, instead of making accusation on the CS member being snobbish, playing senior or bullying ( which often is not the true intent of the CS member), we should also try to walk away and not reply to invoke further arguments on the topic. Let the Mods do the job or report the post to the Mods.
Personally, I tend to think that for a CS member to respond,( even if its not such a nice way) its a sign of committment he is showing that he wish to contribute to the TS's knowledge. If hes not bothered , he will not be angry. Typically, we dont feel much for things we have no association with.
If he keep quiet, whats the point of being in the forum? Might as well deregister from CS and move on to greater things in life. CS is meant for sharing and collaborating cum exchanging ideas.
Similarly, for all of us who wish to seek clarifications and knowledge from the community in CS. Do take all comments openly and in our stride. A sarcastic or strong comment may not necessary be invalid. Just because someone is very fierce doesnt mean he cant teach us things.
In my career, the time that I felt like I learnt alot was the time I worked with a boss that F*** me left right up down center throughout the period I was working with him. Thinking back, it was really good training, but only on hindsight lol.
Provided the phone operator doesn't drive you nuts :sweatsm:
