Comments on: BANNED!! from DPReview.com forums!

By: prorgagging

prorgagging — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:40:27 +0000

Hello I’m new here
And it looks like a good forum, so just wanted to say hello! :):):)
And looking forward to participating.
Going on vacation for a few days, so i’ll be back

By: PP

PP — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:58:14 +0000

Definitely the best policy Jon :) !!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:11:04 +0000

Bizarrely, a few days later I got back on again. Now I know that this was around the time that they were shifting their server, etc, but that’s a long time.

I’m still taking the line that I browse and not post too much!
Best
J

By: PP

PP — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:30:23 +0000

Sorry to hear that Jon,

Perhaps we need a range of t-shirts….. sort of:

“I used to post on DP Review to help people out and all I got was this lousy ban”.. :)

By: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:06:19 +0000

Hey PP,
I got banned yesterday as well. Their loss! Must have been something I said… or a few things! :-)
Jon

By: Jac

Jac — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:46:21 +0000

In lieu of this incident, I will remove them from my bookmarks permanently. I hate behaviour like this from reputed websites. You have my full support.

bye bye dpreview.

By: PP

PP — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:44:47 +0000

Thanks again for the nice words everyone (including those posting on the DPR thread too!)

I’m not bitter about this. It’s just a shame I can’t reply to any posts for help.

But I am still able to read there of course so I will be picking up any queries and trying to answer them here. The search facility here is very good and I also try to categorise everything too.

I have a long list of stuff I want to post about; I’m in busy season now commercially so I’ll try and get another post up in the next few days (quite probably Part 5 of assignment pricing which will deal with re-use or extra usage).

Got some good tips on Alamy CTR and keywording coming too so stay tuned!

By: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:47:42 +0000

Absolutely disgraceful that you have been banned. One of the only other people I know who gave solid, impartial advice, and refused to get drawn into heated debates.

How stupid of dpreview – sorry, amazon – to remove exactly the sort of poster that makes the site worthwhile.

I’m now thinking about whether I should do any more posting on dpreview. I will still read, when it suits me, and it may be of benefit, but why would I continue to help.

Oh well, just think of the extra time you’ll have to do other things :-)
Jon

By: Woblee

Woblee — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:35:03 +0000

I think that you should start your own forum up. I’m sure it’ll take off pretty quickly. Try phpBB.

By: PP

PP — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:57:10 +0000

Thanks for the support everyone!

Caliber, I posted there as “ProPhotographer” and signed posts like I do on the blog as “PP”.

DPReview, I still can’t log in (I’ve just tried) still says i’m banned. BTW, the email I was given when I tried to log-in ‘abuse@dpreview.com’ has not replied to my nicely worded message asking why? Still no communication from them.

J.F, perhaps we should start a club… ;) :)

Regards all