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My disappointing and short experience with 1x.com.

I’ve got censored while answering a critique about my picture with this:

“Thanks everyone for your constructive feedback! I’ll work more on it and see if it brings something better… it would be nice to get such comments when a picture is rejected though… I wonder why 1x doesn’t allow you to see any from the screening process…”

The explanation was:

“Your critique post has been deleted by a forum moderator. If you wish to understand the specific reasons for deletion, please contact a member of the moderation group. You should note, however, that the more common reasons for deletion include:

a) You have not answered the three questions required when you post a photo for critique or your post violates rules established for participation in the critique forum. The rules and guidelines can be found here http://1x.com/?action=critiqueguidelines and here http://www.onexposure.net/forum.php?action=rules
b) Your post failed to provide any REAL critique. Comments like -great photo-, -I like it-, and -superb-, provide no assistance to the poster whatsoever so please remember that participation in the critique forum requires constructive, in-depth comments that explain why you like, dislike or are indifferent about a particular picture.
c) Your post is nothing more than a complaint about being rejected or about the screening process and/or the Crew. The purpose of critique is to gather member opinion about a particular picture. It is not the venue for complaints. If you wish to complain or discuss the screening process, you are more than welcome to start a thread in the Forums or you may wish to contact the Crew directly. Regards. Your moderation team”

I then manifested my disappointed through 1x forum. My topic has been locked.

The whole forum thread is reported below, so that more people will know about 1x.com and their “Honest critique will make you develop as a photographer and encourage you to strive for excellence” as stated on their pages…

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Alberto Petracci
started topic 18 minutes ago 5 forum posts and 0 photos.

Dear 1x.com, I’m a new member, fascinated by the idea of coming into a community where expression through photography is the main focus.As soon as started, I provided feedback, participated in critique, and submitted one of my pictures (*).

My picture has been rejected, without any comment. Keen to learn what I could improve, I posted my picture for critique. I’ve got a fantastic prompt feedback from the members of 1x community, which actually proven right, allowing me to see my creation under a different perspective, allowing me to learn! I’ve never been more happy to be rejected
I wanted to thank these members, so I answered to their posts, and actually expressed the desire to receive such a feedback directly when a picture is rejected. In fact, a picture posted in screening is reject by the same kind of people, hence why not get those useful feedback directly?

So I expressed my opinion as you can see from the message below [same as published above]… and I’ve been CENSORED, as you can still see from the following screenshot as well.

This is really disappointing. If you want to be a site worth of publishing art, you have to be open to constructive critics as mine, as I was when rejected. If you are not able play by the rules you made yourself, I’m sorry but you (1x.com) are not the only ones on this world wide web.

Kind regards,
Alberto Petracci

(*) these pictures is part of a personal exhibition in Aberdeen currently on display and receiving great critics.

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Tim Corbeel
replied 5 minutes ago Forum moderator 909 forum posts and 23 photos.

Alberto, As explained in the mail, contact a member of the moderation group (see about page) if you want to receive more info on why a post was deleted. Your post was deleted for one of the reasons which you can find under:
c) Your post is nothing more than a complaint about being rejected or about the screening process and/or the Crew. The purpose of critique is to gather member opinion about a particular picture. It is not the venue for complaints. If you wish to complain or discuss the screening process, you are more than welcome to start a thread in the Forums or you may wish to contact the Crew directly. Please contact one of the moderators or site crew if you want more info.
Topic locked.

Now, I had a bit of “interaction” via mail with the forum moderators… the official answer is (quoting):

“Alberto, discussions about screening, rejected photos, etc are allways and imediatly deleted from forum.”

In my opinion, this is not a place where a sincere discussion about photography can occur.

You’re more than invited to my exhibition in Aberdeen: 13 of my pictures on the walls of the Belmont Picturehouse Art Cafe’ in Aberdeen!

Nobody knows why, how. We can’t imagine nor we have words to talk about it. Just all the good feelings that come from having, sooner of later, shared a bit of your life. Farewell my friend.

if you’ve got his eye: chasejarvis.com

My iPhone is just addictive: I can now post through it, fast and easy and everywhere! Is this the return of the albazilla? My mumbling mind took lot of pleasure in setting up a site for Little, and something extra may happen now… Who knows?

…so it’s written at the bottom of each page of Wordpress, one of the most powerful blogging engines, the soul of Albazilla as well.
My case it’s a bit more prosaic though, since I’m only able to install and tune stuff on websites, more than actually code.
However, the pleasure of watching your creation becoming alive it’s quite filling as well, and it’s with real passion that I’m helping my better half in putting together a decent site for the little one. Not that Sandvox it’s bad, just that is never doing what we want (or maybe it’s that we want too much from a simple wysiwyg?). So I’m back working with Wordpress, and galleries, and plug-ins, and themes, and… Will this be better than Albazilla?

Would you like to educate your baby to be environmental friendly? Would you like to make him/her bond with Mother Earth? Here’s the eco-dolls house! And I still remember Ken’s secret house, with radars instead of the eolic generator, and Barbie’s house, with the pink elevator instead of the solar panels…

But… did you know that in Italy people still use the fax?!?!

Back in blogging business, let’s start with the link of the week:

http://www.isteamphone.com/

Seriously, this is a cool shirt… and I like the sarcasm: as any smart idea, the iPhone set a standard for stuff we thought it was no use to us (silly humans). Now, I’m sure the ‘flying machine’ of Leonardo received even more negative critics than Jobs’ pods