I don’t care if people say they are fake, but if you are going to, prove it. I trust in that places like SLRlounge take a little bit of time to watch that they aren’t, as you did Joe. 

People need to stop being the “shoot from the hip” single line haters. I can’t stand it. And I can imagine it only makes your job more difficult. 

I’ve seen most of these images before under pretty much the same heading under other sites (or maybe this one) and people just did the same thing, rolled out the hater carpet and ran with it. I understand some photos are fake, and I we don’t want them around, agreed, but it’s no different when people run their mouth without backing it up. It makes the person look bad, and it brings the comments down, almost as much as the ‘cool guy” comments when people criticize what the article is about or information stated as though they know better or are more comical. I want to read the comments, I’m interested in what people have to say, but it’s difficult when half of what people put up is not thought through, uneducated, or pure troll evil. 

The internet needs to grow up, period. otherwise sites like this can’t properly grow, neither can their readers, nor the entire subject.