For a series of “unexpected” events the last couple of months I spent much less time than usual on 43rumors. I had plenty of work to do on my real job and also some urgent private matters to solve. Long time 43rumors readers certainly noted that:
1) increased typos on titles and text. Main reason why this happens is because I mostly write articles in hurry with my iPhone which is set on German language and doesn’t autocorrect english text (it needs to be set on German for work reason).
2) absence from me (admin) from the daily comments.
I apologize to anyone for that decrease in “presence” and “quality” but this site is not my main work and in life it happens that sometimes urgent thing have to be solved first. The good news is that I am finally 100% back right in time for Photokina. I will now work harder on improving my text quality, rumors and comment response. Will also try to get rid of the many trolls on this site 😉
Thank you for your understanding!
43rumors admin
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I think we can sum up and all agree that we Appreciate all the amount of information and time your take to give us the people info on what happening in the world. Thank you for all you’ve done and will continue to do. Personal life takes priority. Thanks!
Glad to hear everything is in order now. 🙂
We might not all understand the pressures you are faced with but I think the majority of readers understand and support you. Keep up the great work.
Thank you, but I actually do care more about Sony 😛
Thanks for the update. If you can’t remove the trolls, could you at least require people to log in with a real account so they can’t keep posing as any name they want. For all I know it’s one person. Make them use their FB login and most of them will be more respectful. Right now they are running a muck and it keeps me from reading or getting involved because there’s too much minutia to wade through.
I totally agree with this. Banning anonymous comments would cut down on a lot of the bullshit.
In any case, keep up the good work, Admin!
Please don’t do Facebook login. Not everybody has, or wants, Facebook.
I already have to use some kind of login credentials, can’t remember right now, maybe a gmail or disqus account.
Why not get one or two of the regulars who want to volunteer to help monitor the comments and just delete the troll posts until they get tired of wasting their time?
No facebook here..
We all appreciate your hard work for the 4/3 communities .
Thank you .
Just get rid of Viezevure please.
Easily the forums most prolific asshat.
lol
Keep up the great work on this site — if you’ve been distracted, this user did not feel a significant drop in quality or quantity of output. It is still my go to each day. Well done
And I’m blown away that you’re able to do all of this as a side project! Truly amazing!!!
Totally agree. If this is your side job, Admin, I can’t begin to imagine you’re real one! All is forgiven, great to have you back, and mFT users are so appreciative of this site. Now, have some fun eradicating the trolls 🙂 !! And thank you for addressing that specific issue in you post, helps us to know you have noticed.
Yeah sometimes I am wondering too how I am able to do that. But the kind of work I do allows me to organize my time. I can work 12 hours on a project in one day and not work the day after. And usually that’s when I work on 43rumors.
I like this site, but while you were gone, someone kept posting advertorials for random vendors of unknown reputation advertising a few cameras for low prices.
Can you please find out who that was and stop him/her from doing so again? I don’t think we really need to know that “SOMERANDOMEBAYVENDOR” has 4 cameras for sale for a few hundred less than a reputable vendor such as B&H or Adorama is selling it for.
I think you’ll find the ads are related to your own browsing. Maybe not directly, but it just shows how your computer is followed by google & other programs you may use to know what your interests are.
Damn typos! That was supposed to be Ross.
he isnt talking about adsense or any ad banners, but actual write up posts here from admin, letting everyone know that some hole in the wall ebay vendor is selling discount cameras.
thanks
Good! Now please ban the trolls that come in here every damn day and ruin the experience.
Good to see you back in strength again Admin, but there is life after this site & we all have a life to live as well, however it is nice to escape into a rumours site like this (not including the moron trolls). Thanks for all your hard work.
Trolls seem to have no life of their own unfortunately (check their posting pattern i.e. uninterrupted 24/7 posting). Hopefully this is the end of their life here.
We’re still here! (reader since ’09)
Since 09? God what a long time!!!! 🙂
This site was one of the main reasons why I bought a GF1! I have always enjoyed your personal input and until this post had begun wondering if the love had faded.
Thanks for your work, keep it up. Also, do you still use a Mamiya 7?
Admin — your work on the website has been amazing. You have nothing to apologize for. We get to benefit from all of the great articles and posts you add, and you do all the work. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!
You know we appreciate your efforts a lot.
Thanks for the site, Admin. Anyone who frequents this site should come with some respect and appreciation for the service you bring to us. Keep 1st things 1st.
Since I’ve enjoyed this site for free, for years, I’m going to do something I haven’t done yet, which is to make a purchase through one of your links. It’s the least I can do in return for what you do for us.
Thanks for your hard work. You have nothing to apologize for.
Thanks for your continues hard work. All the best.
You have provided us with a valuable service. Thank you for your efforts.
Great! Thanks! Take care! Good luck!
No complains on my end! I’m grateful! 🙂
thanks for your effort for this site, hope that you can solved your “urgent private matters” beautifully. God Bless u and our family!
Just a quick “thank you” for running this site, which I check daily.
I’m looking forward to the great Photokina rumours coming soon, as I’m looking to upgrade my E-P3.
It would be great to get rid of the trolls …
Regards,
Brian
New Zealand
I still have no info about an E-P3…
A source told me it was released back in 2011 hehe
lol. Meant successor of course 🙂
Admin, thanks for the efforts, you spend on the site and for taking a stronger position against some of the trolls. These trolls are really destroying the quality and reputation of the site.
Dealing against trolls does not mean that people cannot voice founded opinions for or against vendors or products. Most of us have their favorite brands. But particular in this forum, the trolls had no respect for the other posters and mostly just posted to show themselves.
Since you started to do more moderation, the situation improved.
Thks for your work admin. I’ve been following this site for quite a long time and really appreciate your efforts.
A little tip for you: you can setup several Keyboards languages in your iPhone preferences. If you activate both German and English, an additional key will appear on your keyboard (worldmap icon) allowing you to switch easily from one language to the other and then benefit from the appropriate auto-correction ^_^
That’s my setup since my keyboard is normally in French!
Keep on going. Cheers.
That I didn’t know! Will tets it now 🙂 Thanks for the tip!
This is precisely what makes this place great
I was going to write in with the same tip. Keeping my French and English keyboards separate also keeps me from polluting my French spellcheck with English words (the iphone remembers words that you type as being “correct” over time, but that is separate per-keyboard).
Thanks for the update, and for your long-term work on the site. The comments sometimes do get out of hand, but I see the same affliction on so many other sites – it’s just the way our world has evolved.
I for one think that this site will become very boring, if troll posts will be deleted or anonymous posts won’t be allowed, especially for us who aren’t interested in the actual subject matter of the site. Isn’t the internet supposed to be a fun place, where we antagonise each other for no reason at all, so that we don’t have to in real life? Also, the troll posts and their replies are hilarious to read. Superb entertainment, if you ask me!
Mmwuh, I heard the same entertaining joke many times before, I think I can do without it now…
Yeah it’s difficult to find the right balance. I also do not like to remove comments. You will have noticed that heavy critics towards me can be read on this site and I do not remove them. But sometimes there is more discussion about troll comments than about the news I posted. That is boring 🙁
Man with many names uh? let me guess…
Yeah, no thank you, if you’re not interested in the subject matter at all, then why do you come here, what do you comment about ? OH ! I think I get it!
Sorry but no, troll posts are not a form of innocent entertainment (where did you get that ide…OH! don’t tell me that you are…). A Troll comes here with a clear purpose of filling this website with negative propaganda and derail every thread so nothing can be discussed on the comments at all, that’s just noise. If no one is sharing opinions and info then why have comments enabled at all? might as well close the comment system if there’s nothing but spam. Sorry but troll posts stopped being funny the moment they over-saturated this website, it might have been entertaining the 1st or 2nd time around but having to read an endless stream of bigotry and hate every day is not fun at all.
I come here because it’s therapy for me. Anger management, if you like. I choose forums where it’s easy to provoke people, where people have an emotional investment in the subject matter, like camera gear, sports, politics, religion, UFOs and the Flat Earth Society. But maybe seeing a therapist would be better for me?
Or the admin banning your IP, loser. You probably can’t afford therapy after spending all your money on the huge sensors. At least not the therapy you need. But come by my house. We can try electro shock therapy. That would shut you up…I mean that would help you.
No, it won’t be boring at all. The troll posts are the quintessence of boring—repetitive, unchallenging, and devoid of helpfulness. The legitimately critical posts are helpful, anonymous or not. If you don’t know the difference I can begin to understand why you might be entertained by the trolls, but I’ll never understand why you would visit a site whose subject matter doesn’t appeal to you. Antagonism is not in short supply on the internet.
On that note, thank you admin for all you do and for what I hope you’ll do to restore sanity to this board.
“You know, sometimes I go to the park, I see some young kids and I make fun of them, sometimes I even offend their parents. The park is open and I can get in freely. It’s a superb entertainment, if you ask me!”
Seriously.
You are a pervo, hook up with Gaykon. Disgusting… Mafia?
You are always complaining that the rest of us don’t understand irony. . . Marco’s sense of irony too much for you? In this stupid little post you changed Zeikon’s name into an anti-gay slur . . . here again, Admin, this is precisely the type of vicious trolling used by this cretin CONSTANTLY. He is psychotic and cannot control himself. Please remove this post and consider blocking his IP. Blocking his IP would solve over 95% of your troll problems.
By the way, dirt-bag, in the US, President Obama is passing one law after another to protect LGBT people from slurs of this type.
I won’t miss the trolling. Most of your trolling is beneath the dignity of users on this site. If you “aren’t interested in the actual subject matter of this site”, then take a hike. The internet is full of sites where you can log in as hundreds of different users and try to offend everyone with your towering wit.
>> “Isn’t the internet supposed to be a fun place, where we antagonise each other for no reason at all, so that we don’t have to in real life?” << . . . No, it isn't. Who told you such? I have heard many users call you a "coward" because if you tried that crap anywhere in "real life" you would get your teeth knocked out. MOST visitors to this site are interested in m4/3 camera rumors, reasonable speculation and pleasant information exchange. A Troll like yourself only wants to agitate others and confuse everything, (basically turning all our conversations into a psychotic jumble resembling your own troubled mind).
You are the only poster who is "entertained" by your garbage, most of which is deeply offensive to whomever you lash out at. The reason so many people question your age and education level is precisely because adults don't need basic common courtesy instructions to respecfully converse.
I log into this site each day and really appreciate all the work you put in. Great info and community – thanks!!
Sorry for being so harsh towards you Admin but at some point this website was on the verge of being ruined by troll spam and it really seemed like you had lost hope on the site. I really hope this is the start of a new troll-free era and that this website goes back to being a source of shared knowledge among m43 users and most importantly a great community. I also hope you can make this website your refuge from real world problems, next time please just post a small note so we know you’re there.
I completely understand you. It’s the price we all have to pay for a non-professional site. And soemtiems it simply happens that I have to take care of my “real life” more than this “digital life” 🙂
Have you considered using the vote system to clean out the trolls?
If we have a committed community that evaluates posts regularly, no troll can stand a chance against most of us.
Ding ding ding ding! you hit the jackpot. The comment section already has all the tools needed to weed out the trolls (flag,down votes and Admin’s ban), we only need active moderation to use them. I wonder if there’s an option on disqus to automatically erase comments under a certain down-vote treshold, like if a comment has more than 5 down votes it gets erased immediately, that way Admin doesn’t have to enslave himself to moderating the site at the same 24/7 rate that trolls post here.
The voting system isn’t meant to cope with trolls… one can disagree with another, it does not make the initial poster a troll. The tool we have to fight ’em is the flagging system. You see a troll post, you flag. Period.
Why cant you make some of us “lesser” admins so that we can help you with the daily stuffs such as cleaning trolls posts, collecting rumors and news from readers and checking posts?
“Lesser” describes you fully. Keep them coming!
Good news to hear that your life will get more balanced soon! Nevertheless, don’t worry, your site is really doing very well – regardless of typos (anyway, a rumors site without some typos …. would this work?). Thank your very much for your efforts and time you are spending into this site! I enjoy it every day when I stop by and read what’s new 😉
Those are important issues for you to deal with. More important than typos and being MIA for some pieces of this. You should be allowed some grace for what you do for us so no worries!
Thank you for this great site, I come here everyday to read rumors and comments, even those from annoying trolls like the mental “Viezevure”: )
Last glimps of a constructive dialogue was (for me) about a RicohGR. What?! A non MFT product?! Yes. Photography is our hobby, passion, job, and it’s GREAT when you can talk and learn about it with people who love the medium.
The day after I have found the usually amount of troll spamming.
I can ignore them, but seriously, I can’t stand when missing family members are offended for no reason.
As you said, real life is more important than the digital one.
I hope you will find a balance and continue to run the site. Typos? No need to be so sorry for that: English is not your first language and I’m sure it’s better than my German 🙂 (I understand it a little bit, but I’m not able to run a German blog!)
It’s sad that you felt you had to post this. Maybe those complaining about typos would be wiling to proof read and correct for you. Or at least make sure they don’t have typos in their own posts.
I agree 100% with you The Master. It is sad, and for me, there was no need to write it. Anyway I thank you for it as it transmits us the excellent kind of person you are: Congratulations once again for your efforts, communication and results of this blog.
For me a-must-read every morning!
You and he are one. We get it . . . just like everyday of the world, you post your crap under as many names as you need to make yourself look like a “Liars Brigade”, and then “yuk yuk” . . . take over the entire forum till everyone else gives up and leaves.
If you like the “results of this blog” when decent people give up and turn away and only you are left to slime the forum to the point where the Admin has to return to ride herd on the trolls, then you have made his life more complicated than it needed to be and virtually destroyed the work he has done to provide us a place to convene and learn what is happening in our “gear world”.
You can set more than one keyboards on iPhone and switch between them while writing: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4509
Hi Admin, ‘Welcome back’, family life is more important than any hobby and work comes next, without it family life will suffer. Typo’s, we all make them, even in our native tongue, but our own mind will read what it means, take a look at this page. http://www.douglastwitchell.com/scrambled_words.php
Typo’s what are they???
But seriously welcome back and let’s return to some real rumours, Trolls, they are a minor inconvenience who sometimes help lighten the read, as long as we can tell when someone is trolling and that is almost every time we read from one so what, we are still able to sort the ‘wheat from the chaff’, Admin keep up the good work.
Pappy.
The problem is that this site was approaching 50% troll posts and 20% frustrated users trying to deal with the troll. Many formerly active users, (who have posted since Admin returned), were staying away, tipping the balance of the conversation even further in favor of the troll.
The WORST aspect was that the troll – posting under 4-12 different usernames would hog the top of the thread, thereby making it seem that the rumored new product was commonly acknowledged to be junk, which would drive away any potential buyer or new forum users from developing an interest in the product or this site.
But whose fault is that, the Troll who actually cares about what he does, or the genuine user who seemingly doesn’t care and fails to support the site by ignoring what is going on. There are some of us who have continued to support what Admin has continually tried to bring us through his own difficult time, while others decided to go away and possibly allowing the Troll to win.
Can’t the downvote system be used to nearly automatically purge these trolls?
If the majority of the community takes the responsibility of evaluating the posts, no troll will ever win, he’s only one and has a whole united community to battle against.
Down vote ? Isn’t it better to simply flag their posts ?
How do you flag a post? I don’t see the option on my login.
When you hover a post that’s not your own, you’ll see a flag button on the right.
Don’t know if it’s available on smartphone version, but on a computer, just hover the right side of a post, you’ll see a little flag…
Hi Duarte,I think you will find that Disqus will not allow a negative vote on the system, only positive votes are counted. If you don’t think that is true check with Disqus support.
I see the buttons. Can you please vote down my previous post (the one you replied to) just to test it?
Thanks.
I’m sorry , can you just downvote this one instead? http://www.43rumors.com/a-personal-important-note/#comment-1507938493
The other one just got another upvote and now I can’t tell anymore…
Hi Duarte, have done as requested to three entries.
Thanks Pappy!
You can undo them if you like.
Downvotes are registered (but not displayed) according to this:https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/658811-how-voting-works
Apparently they aren’t counting to your total account score either. 🙁
As there are no down votes displayed then, you have to assume that no one considers anything as having a negative thought about the associated article.
For your information what I said was from an email I had from Disqus customer support some time ago, where it appeared they simply would not accept any negative feedback whatsoever.
Great to have you back
Hallo Admin
Herzlichen Dank für die jahrelange engagiert Arbeit an dieser Seite! Sie ist eine große Freude und Quelle der Inspiration :-). Ich hoffe, sie wirft etwas Ertrag ab, neben dem Vergnügen an der 43 Technik. Für die Familie und die beruflichen Aktivitäten alles Gute. Die gehen immer vor, Familie kommt zu allererst.
Mir ist klar, dass die Rumors einen zentralen vertraulichen Ansprechpartner brauchen. Für die reine Steuerung der Diskussion würden sich sicher ein paar helfende Mods unter den seriösen Usern finden, die Auswüchse an Trolls reglementieren könnten. Da könntest Du dir mal eine Regelung überlegen, das würde der Seite guttun und dich entlasten.
Schöne Grüße (noch in die Pyrenäen?)
Admin, thanks for this great site (which I eagerly visit daily) and for taking time from your family and job to maintain it!
Trolls are indeed an annoyance, but probably an unavoidable consequence of the success of the site and of m4/3 in general.
Keep up with the good work!
No apologies needed, only continued thanks from your readership. Negative voices often seem loudest, since the overwhelming majority with only positive thoughts tend not to post. So try to keep in mind that for each dripping brickbat there’s an ocean of unspoken gratitude.
Absolutely agree!
Understood. Its laudable that you have given it as much as you have. Best wishes
Thank you for featuring and hosting this camera discussion site. I look forward to reading it daily.
My understanding is that this is also a revenue generation site, by virtue of the click through to featured vendors.
In a classic sense, a troll is someone who posts for no other reason but to cause controversy.
As used in blogs like this, the meaning is changed, such that anyone who disagrees with the wonderfulness of a given consumer product is labeled a ‘troll’ by fans of said product. That is not a troll, that is someone who simply may not agree, and presumably has as much right to his opinion as one who posts simply to fawn. So it will be curious to see how this is used.
I wouldn’t worry too much about misspellings, we all make mistakes, and luckily there are spell checks that can quickly make short work of it prior to posting. Personally, I haven’t noticed any misspellings.
Thanks again!
Your assumptions are wrong. Most of us are talking about the multi-post, different name but same user that comes in and blabs on about full frame, our tiny little useless sensors, and how’s he’d take our tiny little m43 cameras and smash them to the ground. I don’t think you cone here very much or often enough. If you did, it would be blatantly obvious who the troll(s) are..
Indeed.
I’ve been both an Olympus and Panasonic user and I’ve been critical of both companies, I also value the combined effort of both companies into making ONE incredibly versatile system. There’s no denying the presence of fanboys here from both Oly and Pany and I hate their attitude too because they miss the whole point of a shared system, it’s clear to me that those people come from a canikon background and haven’t yet dropped their duopoly mindset in favor of m43’s multi-vendor system culture.
That being said, David is absolutely right, those who we call trolls are not those who simply argue against this system, that’s ok, in fact we ourselves complain a lot about m43 and its companies from time to time (just check any big announcement in the past 4 years). So no, we do not call trolls those who simply argue against us but those who exhibit a very particular behavior of compulsive bigotry and senseless spam, those come here day and night to spread misinformation and bad advertisement regardless of facts. Someone with a coherent argument is not a troll, unfortunately most people who come here to campaign against m43 do not have an argument at all.
The more you write, the thicker you look. Watch it.
Good, now let’s have a troll hunt.
Put then on the rack or burn them at the stakes!
This crackdown by the Admin obviously will not solve the entire troll problem – but hopefully it will put a stop to most of the foul-mouthed misogyny.
A troll’s job is never done, but a lack of response from the legitimate community decreases it more than admin intervention. Unfortunately, there’s no will, especially in the land of the internet, to ignore that which one doesn’t like.
Perhaps with, some trolls, that is generally true. Concerning the head-case we have here, it is demonstrably NOT true. I have seen our name-changing, shape-shifting troll go to the extreme of using 5-10 different fictitious logins just to converse with himself, pretending to be “different” people, with the same issues, each one at variance with the spirit of this forum, arriving at about the same time, niggling against all m4/3 products, lying, spinning, using other’s names in foul configurations, trying to inspire intramural squabbling between Oly and Pany users, etc etc etc etc.
He never tires of trolling, name-calling, invective hurling, trash-talking, spitting, cursing, and generally trying to destroy the hard work of our Admin by turning this forum into his own latrine. The troll does this around the clock, every day – including, (as anyone can easily see), all up and down this thread – he’s already had several of his posts deleted and he is getting frustrated. As such he resorts to ever more offensive poo-flinging and foul mouthed sputtering.
Or burn your bum on the grill, why not? It’s already full of holes.
Great news admin. Thanks for all the work and effort.
Your time is coming! 🙂
He’s already modifying his tone 🙂
Admin is back! Thanks for your work, I believe most of appreciate it! I do at least!!!! 😀
Glad to see you back on business 🙂
“As usual, your comments are irrelevant, just like YOU, MrALLCRAP.”
C.C., a Olympus die-hard, who attacks my comments on the regular.
That’s just one of the comments I get harassed on, whenever I comment.
I’m not going to stoop to pathetic levels like some are here, I mean some people do come here simply to troll M43, but we all know this site has a very strong bias towards Olympus.
So if I dislike Olympus and make a valid argument about ANYTHING, I get attacked by the usual group of fanboys.
I’m on my phone, so i don’t want to search posts to find the blatant attacks, but they’re there. Just look for comments after mine, that simply say, “Loser”, or some lewd comment, ending with “AllCRAP” or something. No valid response to my comment, just petty attacks.
I’m not going to ask you to ban users like C.C. or Marher or whatever his name is, just delete their comments, whenever they reply with a garbage comment.
And to the rest of yall, don’t like what i think of Olympus and can’t reply with a valid response to my comments, like say, Marco or anybody else with sense, keep your childish comments to yourself.
MrALLCAPS
Boy, how you made my day with that one ! 😀
MrALLCRAP – YOU are the troll around here. Admin – be sure to ban this troll and his worthless, baseless, crap comments. I think it’s hilarious that this anti-43 troll needs to justify himself. We are clearly getting to him, so, everyone, keep it up.
Once again, Admin, put him on the hit list for banishment.
See…..?
Also, i don’t attack anyone, or name call, like C.C. just did.
And wait, I thought I was the troll?
“We’re clearly getting to him, so, everyone, keep it up.”??
THAT’S not Trolling?
wow.
Admin, just check C.C.’s comments… they speak for themselves.
Again and again. Get real. YOU are the person with a strong bias. YOU never give any reasonable facts to support your extreme bias against Olympus. YOU are one of the persons, who shows no respect for other posters here, and you wonder why you get attacked by other people? People would accept valid opinions against any brand, but you don’t offer them. If you would change your posting style, nobody would have a problem here. But it is your style of posting, which is one of the reasons, the admin took action.
You say that this forum has a string bias towards Olympus? This shows, how blindfolded you are in fact. People react to your bias, and that does create posts, which simply correct some of your statements, which went out of proportion. If anything of a bias towards Olympus is true, that bias is created by yourself.
Where have i ever attacked anyone like you claim? If i don’t like Olympus, that’s simply MY opinion. Stating that Olympus is hurting themselves is MY opinion.
Case in point, i stated the PEN series is dead, why would Olympus continue to beat a dead horse, it’s only going to effect them financially, and BANG! attacked.
No justifiable reply to my comment, just rabid Olympus Fanboy attacks.
I don’t like Olympus, and i dislike it’s rabid fanboys even more, because they refuse to partake in duscussion, they only spew nonsense. And name-call. And sorry, I can’t stoop to childish levels.
The last paragraph is exactly the problem of your attitude, don’t you see it? YOU call everybody, which disagrees with you “fanboys”, you say that you don’t like people posting here (that in itself is already not a good style for a forum), you say that responders to your “opinions” “spew nonsense”.
Sorry, but sensible forum discussion – even with pronounced opinions – look different to me.
You don’t discuss here, you conduct a personal anti Olympus campaign for yet unknown reasons.
Thank you anyway for your work anyway! I don’t mind typos, especially if you’re not English nativ. A tip for your iPhone: you don’t have to set the whole iphone to english to get English autocorrection, you can pick international keyboards: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4509?viewlocale=de_DE&locale=en_US. Then you can easily change the keyboard during typing by pressing the little globe key. This also turns on the respective autocorrection.
Glad to hear things are improving for you. Thanks for this site, I look at it every day.
It’ nice to have you fully back Admin. Daily reader since 2010 here. Keep up your excellent work.
At last! This place is full of salespeople who try to flog their stuff, and there are also a couple of poofs trying to pull, abusing any forum rules.
nice site – not to worry about some typos – keep up the good work – thanx for the work
Read this site every day. Thank you for the great work!
i read every day waiting a fixed 4k m43 camera with all gh4 features and fixed prime lens
You’re doing a great job — keep your chin up and don’t look back 🙂
Great news! greetings from Argentina, a daily reader.
43rumors continues to be my go to site for news in the M43 realm. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
I respect you for what your doing, priorities need to attended first….Keep up the good work Admin…..And for trolls – Hope we never see y’all again coz the admins back yo
Definitely not, and we all hope we get more brill comments from you.
@Admin . . . this jerk is using a very foul form of misogyny in his name. This is a post which deserves to be deleted. It doesn’t get any worse. If you ever want women to feel comfortable here, the use of such filthy misogynistic terms and this level of guttersnipe name calling must be filtered out.
Oh mighty admin!! We are not worthy of your apology. Seriously though this site is the best!! You do great work.
I have been very pleased to see an occasional deleted post in recent articles. Thank you, do keep it up. If you can delete all ‘full frame trolling’, even posts that *look like* FF trolling, this place will be much more enjoyable, and many of us more gentle serious folk will return.
He (the troll) is pushing hard to stretch the boundaries of tolerance and testing the Admin. He is resorting to using gay bashing and misogyny to substitute for any kind of rational argument or discussion. (See sample post just below). Every decent forum participant should “Flag” such posts to help our Admin ride herd on this one miscreant.
If we all join up and flag his gay bashing and misogynistic posts or maybe block his IP it would clean over 95% of the garbage here.
Its a daily read for me too! But seems like all popular m43 sites will eventually be overrun by trolls. I learn to ignore those post as I fully understand the pros and cons of using the m43 system coming from both apsc and full frame cameras. And we have the best of both worlds from the electronics of Panasonic and lens engineering of Olympus and if people don’t see the benefits they’re just missing the whole point of the m43 system.
Yes, the m4/3 fanboy trolls have been allowed to overrun this site completely. We would all benefit from a more critical and objective discussion of the m4/3 system.
Absolutely! People frequently talk about the ‘fun factor’ and ‘sweet spots’ when discussing the merits of MFT, suggesting they aren’t assessing the system objectively at all, but let their own subjective preferences, needs and desires cloud their judgments.
But that’s exactly what it is all about. Finding the system with best sweet spots for your own fotographic needs! These “People” are absolutly right in their judgments.
Actually, this forum will never be a respectable place for decent men or women until your IP address is blocked by the Admin. YOU are the troll who has taken over and ran this forum as your own mental torture chamber every day (at least, since I’ve been coming here).
“We” will never “all benefit from a more critical and objective discussion of the m4/3 system.” . . . . There can be ZERO benefits from your endless, tiresome tactics to trash this forum, insult and irritate our fellows, childishly berate the m4/3 format, and show your contempt.
You are incorrigible, insufferable, unrepentant and incurable. As you blathered recently in your end zone-dancing diatribe, you don’t care about photography, cameras, most of the topics on this forum, and obviously you care nothing for anyone in this community.
Shall I quote you? . . . “My own personal motivation for trolling is, as I said, mainly to have fun, but also to perform social experiments. I like to stir up people’s emotions, to poke at them to see what happens, much like a scientist tests how an amoeba reacts to different external stimuli. It’s very revealing and interesting.”
You are not interesting – you are malicious, perverted, degenerate & disgusting . . nothing more.
So requesting an objective discussion makes you a troll, but calling someone “malicious, perverted, degenerate & disgusting” does not? Right.
What a huge improvement in this forum since the name-changing troll’s posts are being deleted. Admin has done a wonderful job removing ugly and insulting troll posts. It is a whole new forum!
I believe this has been coming, yea overdue even for some time. With Photokina approaching MANY new photo buffs will begin to watch this site and it simply couldn’t be permitted that 1 or 2 malicious thugs could commandeer the forum and drive away all the traffic Photokina will generate.
My congratulations and best wishes to our Admin and all our gentle-posters here!
Actually, there are at least five trolls:
Mr. AllCaps (Olympus hater)
Viezevure (FF troll)
SuxDix (FF troll, also uses many other names, frequent sexual and misogynistic posts)
Photomeister (FF troll, also known as Gordon/FullFrameForever/Camera market researcher/Full frame for everyone/Assman/Senior proctologist/Chief rectoscopy technician/Semiconductor engineer/Award-winning photographer, he seems to be obsessed with the anal region)
Hedge Hopper (a particularly malicious troll posing as a sort of forum moderator, and a self-appointed guardian of morality and decency)
We’ll see how it develops. This site is overrun by salespeople trying to flog their products, and some “photographers” bleating along. Any opinion not entirely in line is considered “trolling”.
The tech contents are poor, take away the fights and the site will be worthless.
Go fight somewhere else. Stand before the mirror and pummel your puny self to death. Just stay out of our faces with your crap, troll. Everyone else here likes it better since all your psychotic flame posts have been removed.
Relax sunshine, it’s all in good fun. Issues?
Autocorrect…. you can set your iphone to easily switch between english and german….
I am doing what I can to help the moderator recognize the true threats to his forum. Someone has to stop you from destroying another man’s work. Admin has done us ALL a great service by providing us this forum and the rumors and other helpful information. I am honored to do my bit part to help him keep this site from being turned into your head-case latrine.
I have studied your troll posts very carefully and can recognize them after reading just a couple words. Here in this post you, (of course) are lying about me, but you are also lying about SD, & company (too numerous to list) being a separate troll from Gordon, Photomeister etc,. I have your own end-zone dancing, braggadocio, coming to thank for that.
You haven’t studied them carefully enough. I know what I’ve written and not written, and ‘SD’ is another person. The writing style is different, and he’s more prone to spelling errors than I am. Also, you have now begun to accuse innocent non-trolls of being ‘me’. So much for recognizing my style after reading a couple of words. Your crusade have made you blind to reality, dear Don Quixote.
No apologies necessary but please just give us some new rumors of the coming Pany new m4/3 model on which you said you had more information and promised to publish?