Nifty Fifty wrote: You're welcome to do that with your pictures, but please not with mine. Thank you.
Without engaging the rest of the exchange, I want to chime in to say that I strongly agree with this.
It is very bad form to take someone else’s photo posted in a forum and, without asking them, post a revised rersion of it that you think is “better.”
I understand that sometimes this is done by a person who is genuinely hoping to be helpful, but can also be read as insulting.
Generally, when you see someone’s photo posted in a thread that isn’t specifically asking for critique, don’t offer it in the thread — at least not without asking the person first. In addition, when someone posts a photo as an illustration of something under discussion, discussing how it does or does not illustrate the topic is fair game, but insulting the photograph is not.
Just imagine where this leads otherwise…
Nov 15, 2025 at 03:44 PM
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