Welcome Lance,

looking at your stated intentions I'm sure you've come to the right place!

Prieni

They use the towels all right after swimming, but not always do they use a swim suit (especially true for East Germans)...

Prieni

Matt,

I think the variation in individuals is always larger than the variation between "the people" from different countries. There are Brits having absolutely no sense of humour and there are phlegmatic Italians. I even have heard of Germans with some sense of humour.

You never should expect anyone to be this way or another unless you know him or her. Nationality has not much to do with it. That's what I tried to convey.

Prieni

They wouldn't, would they?

Gosh, how happy I am to be German. No one ever would say anything against the Germans!
Probably because we are always so well mannered, especially when we are abroad.
(At least as long as no one mentions the war.)

Prieni

Terry,

I think the point is that you get the JPG's quickly but still have the option to work on any picture later on when you think it would be worth it. The RAW button only works when you already know that the shot you are about to take will be worth working up later on...

Prieni

My PC runs a Athlon XP 2000 with 1.5 GByte RAM (you'll find that processor in the history books). And I wouldn't think for a split second of taking JPGs...

Prieni

John, I take your word for it and I do believe that you and all other moderators on here don't take the decision to remove a post lightly and that you all are aware of your responsibility. As you rightly say, I don't have any way of finding out if that post was out of order and this is exactly why it is so important that the power to remove posts is applied with uttermost care.

With all due respect (and I assure you of the same), this should not be your (as in the moderators) call, but can only be the call of the members. If they feel that all has been said then the discussion will stop, just like in any other thread.

You cannot remove posts and call a stop on debating that action.
If you think it's right to use the moderator 'superpowers' than you should have a skin thick enough to endure the discussion about that.

Prieni

Is it really the thread Nathan is referring to in the OP of this thread that this is about? I read the whole thing and cannot see that it was in danger of moving into a fight. (But then, I'm a grown up boy and can take a cotton ball or two thrown at me.)

I think both sides made their points (and I for one can agree with both sides as it seems can most of the contributors to that thread). All posts are less serious IMO than locking a thread. Even if one post was going a bit too far (I cannot imagine that it was removed otherwise) I think we do respect each other here and can forgive a momentary lapse of judgement.

Let's just put that in the 'overreaction' drawer and forget it. It would be extremely sad to see an overmoderation develop here as has happened in other fora that I used to read. But of course since posts have been removed we have no way of judging the removed posts. That is exactly what makes such censorship so dangerous.

Prieni

Never too cold

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Prieni