On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Fastfission wrote:
Well, the thing is that your photos weren't "intended to make a specific point". If you took pictures of a piece of trash in Crater Lake, and posted it on the article page with a caption along the lines of "In recent years, Crater Lake has become full of trash", that would be an illustration of what he was talking about.
But his solution to remove those photos was to ban all images created by individuals. Had I been less passionate at the time I wrote, I would have said his proposal would throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In the end, though, I don't see any necessary reaction to this except our normal enforcement of NPOV and maybe a little good judgment. It doesn't take an art historian to know that images can be inherently manipulative.
Agreed.
Geoff