The rush to post
Post last updated 6 hours, 31 minutes ago
I'm not sure this is a newer thing, probably not, but lately I keep seeing people desperate to post something, irrespective of the quality of the posting. Given I've recently picked up photography as a hobby I've interacted ever more with that type of content and it's getting frustrating to see the 1000th post for the day titled along the lines of "2 seconds ago my camera arrived, here are the first pics with it".
I don't want to sound mean, but 99% of such posts are total garbage. "Maybe people just want some guiding" I hear you murmuring to yourself. That's fine and the perfect place for such posts would be a dedicated (mega)thread (like in the good old forum days1) specifically for beginner questions, not having a ton of separate posts flooding the minority of better than average posts.
And there's something deeper here: people just don't have patience to grow. You just got your first camera, great, have fun with it, but take a bit of time to understand the basics2, to learn your tool. And after doing this and having some idea about what you're doing, please, for the love of God, don't start teaching others from a point of superiority.
This behaviour leaks into other parts of the (digital) life, too: I've seen many, many Facebook posts (don't ask me why Facebook pushes stranger's 1 react posts to my feed) of people giving their opinion on a subject they had no expertise in, and trying to act like they are experts in that subject, of course.
My 2 cents: before posting something, just take a bit to reflect where you post it and if it's not just impulse posting.
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