>>33118021. He accepted full blame, in fact he was somewhat harsh on himself by explaining he was a casual extensively, you are the one that can't see he's just explaining the circumstances of the photo
2.If his circumstance as a casual is irrelevant, but what makes the circumstances of "professionals" so relevant is that it's the board's attitude? In case you didn't notice, he's a poster on the board as well as you, and you haven't even posted a photo. He's a part of this board just as much as you are, and this "harsh" criticism you're saying he'll receive is different from what you're giving him. Harsh criticism isn't beratement for not meeting standards, it's holding high standards, and he understood full and well he didn't meet those. You're not giving him harsh constructive criticism, because he was already given that and listened, you're just being an asshat while also not understanding that he's listening to you.
3.He wants to get better or else he wouldn't have asked to be critiqued, he listened to the criticisms. You're criticizing him through a different lens than is necessary, he's learned his lesson but you're essentially just shouting at him for not knowing it in the first place, and it's not actually helpful to anyone.
It's more like he walked into a photography club and asked for a critique, got his critique, and when they said "your focus is on the wrong thing" he says "okay, I'll fix it next time, i didn't know", but then you continue to berate him needlessly for explaining himself. He explained he was new and not so good along with the circumstances around the photo in order to let y'all know that it wasn't because he was lazy and didn't want to improve, it was that he didn't know how to improve, that's why he came.
He wasn't mad at the criticism, he was mad that you didn't know the distinction between beratement and relevant criticism.
I'm done defending an anon who's probably asleep already to one that can't listen.
