Competition versus Co-operation

I don't have a lot of confidence in the integrity of the Administrator there.
The fact that he is attracting some refugee moderators from DPReview suggests to me that moderator bad behaviour will not only continue over there but probably be encouraged by the Admin guy.

Anyway, this here is a much friendlier environment :-)

hopefully maco11 will go there and stay there ...

lol.....I too have just been sandboxed by Aquired Taste after posting in his thread. But it's too late. Screenshots of the conversation I had with the Admin guy are on the Internet.

There are already 6 moderators on DPRforum, it's gone big 😂
I feel like the atmosphere will quickly look like DPReview
dprforum.com/community/members/?key=staff_members

But it's membership and forum activity is much smaller than here.
I've said my piece elsewhere about their admin guy with supporting screenshots, so time will tell.

I'm a member on the other site as well. Had a PM conversation with the Admin on there about a couple of posts. It was interesting and I have nothing against that forum. However I will go where I know a lot of the members and that's quite a few after 23 years and really, that's only one place at the moment.

Yes Dan I did see your post. It was interesting in how it was handled and also it was mentioned in a message. ;-) I'm a Kiwi, so I don't mind speaking out.

Danny.

my wishes as well, he was the major player in the demise of a few forums.

Yes, he was a strange one. On one occasion he helped me out a lot but on every other interaction I had with him it was so-so and a couple of bad ones thrown in as well
Even he comes here, if not already, I suspect he won't get a role as moderator.

i better not post there as 3 of those mods banned me in the past and im using my original name. i am a member over there but knowing this im going to cancel. the action is here on bobs forum, so thats 2 down and this one wins my vote. :-)

Yes, he was a strange one. On one occasion he helped me out a lot but on every other interaction I had with him it was so-so and a couple of bad ones thrown in as well
Even he comes here, if not already, I suspect he won't get a role as moderator.

If many of the "dodgy" DPR moderators are going over there I suspect it's mainly because they feel they would have little chance of being a moderator here. And if they are thrown into the forums without "superpowers" to protect themselves they probably fear copping some flack from members here :-)

And I've been one of his victims, a few times.
He's probably the worst of all, with a huge ego.

Politics, sigh ...

I, and I suspect a lot of other people, don't much care about fancypants tech, modorators etc. It's about traffic and content.

I'm also not a big fan of Facebook and its ADD approach to content. I can join endless groups on fb if I want that.

I will stick around here and attempt to post to contribute to content. Hopefully it works out.

You can safely skip "probably"
He chased away two (that I know with certainty) valuable posters from Portrait Forum.
He would delete posts of people disagreeing with him on photo issues, civil, reasonable posts.
He "moderated" his own discussions on photography related issues.
Without much exaggeration , DPR moderation was one of the reasons of its demise. And that happened with Admins approval.
No questioning moderators actions?
In the end what was left of DPR was Forums and their participants. A great bunch of enthusiasts with some moderators doing their best to chase them away.
MAKO2011 was without competition.
Yesterday I saw posts disappearing in a thread about this site there was no reason, none, he kept deleting them..
And now banning someone for 7 days just before DPR closes for good with no explanation that makes any sense?
I hope moderators here are vetted. You do not need bad ones..

YES please!!!

I went there just now to see how it looks and they are trying to position themselves as a seamless transition between DPR to their new site with a 1:1 look and feel as the original. I like they already have dark mode.

As a member of the Leica l-camera forum, rangefinder forum and fredmiranda all since 2003-2005, I never see these communities as “competition” because members don't have to choose to be part of one or another.

I bet many people will join both and the experience will decide where to spend more time.

I just got censured by the emperor again 👍🏻
See my post on "Moderation" here: dprevived.com/t/moderation/319/6/