Reply #3: Answering the question: What do you think. [View All]

[Mira]

First:
I would miss the contests, because they are a lot of fun to me. I learn from them, and from our interactions connected with them.
I think all the things Blueraven95 mentions could still be possible, and encouraged, along with the contests. None are mutually exclusive.

Yet I can understand if for some of us the contests have gotten to be a pain and a drain, maybe we need yet another poll to get the votes from the photographers who like to participate and take the temperature of the group at large.

Maybe those who are weary of them could sit them out for a while.

I'll watch how the responses come in to this question by regnaD kciN and I might start a poll on this question if we don't otherwise come to a consensus.


Second:
After all the back and forth about the "rules" we would not be well served to pack up and give up without settling and finalizing the issues.
We can see this through now much more easily while the issues are still on the table, than to unpack them later when we have to all but start from scratch.
If we decide to abandon the contests for a while at least let us do so with the rules in place for when we start again.

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Overall this has ballooned out of proportion I think, it's a bit rudderless in arriving at pulling together conclusions, and though not all opinions can be served and incorporated, we have enough information in bits and pieces to add the few sentences that have gotten lost and re-establish our modus operandi for the contests.

None of this is worthy of disrupting our happy group, we can play together and solve our problems as they arise.
All of this started over the issue of the frames. We got that solved, and we can now move on to the other stuff, maybe one at a time, and put it behind us.