Small rant...

[johno]

Directed at posters in any of the photography groups...

Out of focus pictures are NOT automatically art.

Take a picture of your cat, dog, little sister, a mountain, a tree, a car, etc, etc, and it looks blurry???

Throw it away! Delete it, if digital!

Don't foist it on the viewing public and ask for commentary.
(I won't even go down the "and be nice" clause...)

Because the first comment will be "learn how the focus works on your camera"

{/rant}

Notes:

If you WANT it to out focus and it looks good, then it's ART.
If you got a cool effect, then it's found ART.

Posting a blurry pic and asking "why it's out of focus" is a valid question.

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

the "and be nice" clause...

Oh, it's a "happy fluffy bunny reviewer" group.

Face it, lots of people don't want commentary. They want the happy fluffy bunnies to come up and tell them how nice they are. Iv'e a few friends who left fanfic lists because whenever they made a negative comment or offered constructive criticism the happy fluffy bunnies descended on them with sharp pointy teeth.

I can offer two suggestions:

If it's a community or group you moderate: Ban "and be nice," "positive comments only" and other such clauses. Put in the group description that when asking for comments one must be ready to expect criticism. In the case of LJ, screening posts would still be acceptable, because the entry author would still see the responses.

If it's a community that you don't moderate: I checked. happyfluffy doesn't exist. Register it. Use this ID to join those communities. Use it to incompetently gush about everything wrong with a picture that says "and be nice." Be the teenager who can't spell, capitalize or punctuate. Make people learn to dread happyfluffy's nice comments.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, evil man, you should be in the LOEG HoF yourself.

Done!

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I'm not fictional enough. I will, though, help flesh out the profile for HappyFluffy

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Oooh! *bounce bounce* I want to be one of the evil people behind the dreaded happyfluffy postings!! >:D