Women's March For Unity

[Andrea B.]

You should have kept this thread closed. The pictures have modest documentary or pictural quality, anyway, and by next week, everybody would have forgotten about this.  By attempting to sanitize everything, you are making it only worse.

We volunteer to run this website and we do the best we can.

Christian, what exactly is the outcome which would please you? Where precisely do we draw the line? Can you make up an enforceable "rule" which works in every case?

And then -- why in the world has this topic upset you so much? Of the thousands of members here, we have had only 3 who want to complain about this thread*. Is it really necessary to do that? Can't you just walk away from what you do not like? There is so much here on NG to enjoy.


*...but more than that who have complained about the complainers. It gets very absurd.

If we move political posts to the Back Storage, we get complaints.
If we leave political posts in the thread, we get complaints.
Would you call this a no-win situation for NikonGear?

[Akira]

Now I'm very happy that this otherwise excellent thread is now cleaned up!

Nice job moderators and administrators!

[DougB]

Rick - excellent set of B&Ws

To those who do not like these or think they are "political" then post your set of photos that suit YOUR political thoughts!
These are just photos & should be judged as such.
If something "bothers you" to look at, then DON'T LOOK AT THEM

[BW]

A newsworthy social documentary, Rick. Keep them coming and dont mind the people who want to gag your photography. It is only a proof that your pictures make an impact. Who the hell want to stay neutral all the time and what progress comes out of that?

[Mongo]

Mongo repeats:-

"……….. One of our members contributes what Mongo thinks is an excellent set of photojournalist quality images capturing a particular event ………… Mongo thinks he has done a very fine job and glad he posted his photo work. ………"

[Thomas Stellwag]

excellent documentation  -  as most what I´ve seen from you - thank you Rick

something I like very much in your style is, that looking at the images, I can 
imagine them "dotted" on front of a newspaper, as well as fine printed  behind glass

[Rick Waldroup]

I want to thank everyone for viewing the photos and leaving comments.

[RBSinTo]

Rick,
Excellent work as usual. Your Documentary and PJ photography always resonates with me.
And kudos to Nikongear for permitting Political content. We who post here are very fortunate that freedom of expression is allowed.
This thread would have been deleted in Pico-seconds by the Moderators at Nikoncafe for example.
Robert

[Bjørn Rørslett]

To be precise: on NG, there is no prohibition of posting what some would designate 'political' photos. However, what we will not allow is an off-topic discussion going into politics on any scale, local, national, or global. For the latter purposes, more appropriate sites exist.