I know that's not the right phrase I am looking for but its close.

Here we are in a forum with similarly minded individuals that all share a passion for the work we do. Most of us are even bidding on the same jobs and there has to be one winner eventually.

As a photographer I often have the opportunity to interact with my peers and fellow artists. While we are interested in what each other is doing, and often admire each others work, we all have the same unwritten moral code of respect for each other. While I have no interest in shooting weddings I don't ever put down the wedding photographers I know.

If someone wants to share what they are doing out in the real world on the forum I would honestly say that they are happy with the outcome.

The honest answer or feedback would be praise, approval, or a congratulations.

There seems to be one individual in the forum that feels the need to constantly put people down. To invoke chaos, to bully, to degrade, to put it bluntly be an 'arse-whole'!!

In this day and age with plants closing, equipment going to auction, bankruptcy looming the last thing we need is someone that belittles us even more.

Perhaps he is angry he didn't get the job or that kind of work seems easy to him and warrants no praise. While my gut instinct is to respond to his unacceptable post I feel I would only be fueling his inner rage.

He has done this is other threads before and I think it is time he was shown the door.

If you don't have anything nice to say....don't say it. That's what I was looking for.