What a fascinating comment. So many things to respond to….

If you feel like linking to my site in that way then go for it. It’s your blog. Put whatever you want there. Clearly you’re not too polite, since you felt free to put this comment here. I actually said nothing about you personally, I only commented on a particular practice and style of blogging. In contrast your comment was a very personal attack. Anyone writing this comment can’t make too many claims on politeness.

If I emailed someone everytime I saw a blog comment/caption/style that I wasn’t personally a fan of then I’d never get any posts written. I’d spend my entire life in email. If you have a particular reason for presenting pictures a certain way then feel free to leave a comment here (or email me or whatever) to explain it. Happy to chat about it or be educated. But just leaving a comment saying I’m wrong without anything else doesn’t really help change my mind.

If we want to go to the dictionary then obnoxious is defined as “annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself”. That seems pretty fair. That frames certainly do attract undue attention given the images are simply reposted.

In contrast egotistical is defined as “given to talking about oneself; vain; boastful; opinionated”. Not really sure how you get to that from my comments. Again feel free to educate me. Obviously it’s my blog so it’s my opinions. If that makes me egotistical then so is every other blogger out there. And I’ll point out I do post original content from my own sessions. Certainly can’t claim that’s why people come here, but I make the effort where I can to add new material.

I’ve no idea where to start on the “close minded” part, but the fact you specifically call out ‘male’ does interest me. Not person or blogger or webmaster. But ‘male’. You think that matters? Is male also a form of denigration, along with the egotistical and close minded bit?

-paltego

Ah, the pivot to “I was only joking” when challenged. It seems that when I comment about an aspect of your blog presentation, I’m being insulting. But you leave a nasty personal comment, and apparently that’s humorous criticism. Interesting philosophy.

I read your FAQ before, and didn’t really buy the argument. I’d have thought putting the artists name on the frame rather than your URL would have been a much better way to ensure proper credit if that’s the goal. After all if someone goes to your site and the picture is buried somewhere on a previous page it doesn’t help them track it down. And I suspect anyone who does reblog one of your images is far more likely to cut off a frame with your URL on it than they would be a frame with a proper artist credit tag on it. After all some bloggers may feel a moral compulsion to retain the artist information, but I doubt any feel a moral compulsion to advertise your site.

Anyway, as I said in my earlier comment, it’s your blog, post what you like there and link however you like. That will continue to be my philosophy.

-paltego