Originally posted by MRRiley Your friendly moderator staff has added a
SARCASM Alert to yon thread title to somewhat protect the OP from overly zealous forum members.
Mike
PF Moderation Team
As for the real subject of the thread. The K-7 doesn't suck. I decided to skip it simply because it was not "better" enough from my K20D to justify the cost. The new K-5 on the other hand is significantly better in almost every area (except body style for me... I prefer the K20D body style) so despite the price it is gonna be in my arsenal by February... At which time my K20D becomes the backup camera and my venerable K10D may just get treated to an IR conversion.
Mike, that was an excellent idea. My concern, and, I think, the concern of others about a number of threads like this that have cropped up is not, as Todd implies, that we don't want the positive energy of the earth disrupted by a negative statement. It is a much more concrete concern about the role and effect of our forum. I'm not keen on acting either as a fanboy club or needlessly circulating negative rumors about our sponsor (or having threads laced with trollbait, for that matter).
Very little gets written about Pentax, and it is surprising how often a search engine result for something Pentax-related pulls up nothing more than forum posts here. Sometimes all the viewer of search results sees is the thread title and a few fragments. Right now, at one of the most positive times for the Pentax line, our little band of Pentax enthusiasts has quite a few threads titled as disasters, with no hint of sarcasm. Among others, titles of our recent threads have hinted Pentax was dying, new purchasers being very afraid and now that the last Pentax flagship was a piece of crap. In some of the cases, these statements are not even necessary to express the real intent of the poster. The original poster here had good intentions, but misinterpretaions tend bounce around the internet world like a bad cold and become fact. That little title change fixes it--good job in moderating!