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You Have Been Banned From Deleteme

Today I was banned from the deleteme group. I'm not sure what evil thing it was that I did but apparently I did something to piss someone off. I have to say I haven't been all that active in the room.

 

The last activity I had was to write this photo critique for my friend sfbuckaroo on his fine photo below:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/sfbuckaroo/39028582/

 

I'm not sure what they found so offensive about my critique but I have consistently left only the most professional and some of the finest critiques in their group. My critique on sfbuckaroos fine photograph was as follows:

 

"Wonderful blues. Perfect balance. An eerie feel to this photo compounded by the fact that the station is empty. Works exceptionally well. One of the best Muni shots I've ever seen. Hidden perspective that draws you in. Fine work indeed. Someone missed a tag.

 

saveme7"

 

That was three weeks ago. Since then I haven't been involved much.

 

I think it's unfair that I've been banned. Perhaps their reasoning was that already 8 photos of mine had made it through their critique process to their "safe" and they felt threatened by my photographs. Perhaps it was because weeks ago a few of us started our own deleteme uncensored group and they feel threatend by another game:

 

www.flickr.com/groups/deletemeuncensored/

 

Although some of us quite a long time ago used to banter about in the threads and were asked to quiet down, I have been nothing but respectful and have had no involvement in their threads at all since being asked not to express myself there any longer.

 

Because I'm no longer a member there I cannot even inquire as to why I've been banned. I consistently played by the rules, consistently submitted fine photography to their group and consistently wrote quality critiques.

 

I've read that some of the long time members of deleteme have recently been leaving their group. I can see why. This kind of unreasonable administrative response puts a chill in the air. I am glad that a few of us have deleteme uncensored as an alternative and as a place where one need not worry about retribution for their photography.

 

Unfair. It's too bad really.

 

Won't you join us at deleteme uncensored?

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Uploaded on September 21, 2005
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