LAist: Flickr Now Limits You to Zero Mistakes Per Person

hexodus

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:05:43 -0800

Wow. This just happened to a good friend of mine. They deleted her account completely, and did not even give her a reason as to why. The whole story is here: http://hexod.us/a/2008/01/my_friend_semshine_was_deleted_from_flickr.html

widderson

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:05:39 -0800

overreaction as it was called here is a very polite description for continued dilettantism and ignorance!

PeggyArcher

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:21:21 -0800

I'll also recommend Thomas Hawk's photo sharing site called Zooomr. I think all of us need to move to another site en masse instead of just sitting there and taking it.

Mela

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:08:46 -0800

Flickr isn't a community any longer. At the latest since it is a yahoo company. First the censorship affaire.. and now it is just an imagedump for yahoo-users. Ipernity may be smaller but has a nice community. The community on 23hq is not so active.. but surely nicer than flickr.

hubbers

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:32:11 -0800

Yuo guys have to remember Flickr isn't a friendly little start up now. It's part of Yahoo and a lot of baggage comes with that.

fancyfeast

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:46:57 -0800

Flickr is also bad for uploading anything naked. Try one of the web 2.0 porn sites like prickr.

cmgrowl

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:09:16 -0800

Another thing that worries me is that I use flickr as an off-site backup for my photos. The fact that they had no easy way to restore the user's comments after they changed their minds about the "scrubbing" action doesn't give me much confidence in using them for that purpose.

dangerousdan

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:15:43 -0800

This is about measured response of which Flickr had none. Instead they nuked a paying member's comments and negated hours and hours of her time without so much as a "howdy do". I see this has made it to the front page of Digg so I'd urge those as pissed off about this as I am to make their comments seen/heard there. Thanks again Mal for fighting the good fight.

tequilaanddonuts

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:34:28 -0800

Thanks for the article Malingering. It means a great deal to me. I'm exhausted from all of this and more than a little embarrassed. flickr users need to file this incident in the back of your minds. Remember, you are NOT in control. HEATHER IS.

cmgrowl

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:16:57 -0800

Ipernity is another photo sharing community. You can also share videos and other documents there. The interface is pretty similar to flickr otherwise. Many people switched over to it after the previous censorship battle. This has taught me that you need to have one flickr account for hosting your photos and saying "great capture" and a second free account for getting into serious debates. You never know what is going to happen to you. So much for being a community. Instead, it will be a community of faceless trolls.

Malingering

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:41:31 -0800

Come to think of it, I've had a Buzznet account since July of 2003. I wonder where that went.

caliking01

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:25:47 -0800

Damned dirty Christians!

Anti

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:15:00 -0800

I have had a buzznet account since before Flickr ever existed. It was then and continues to kick the ass of anything else. It at least kicks flickr's ass.

samkim

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:29:17 -0800

just start recommending flickrs rivals as comments and see waht they do...

_wskrz_

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:28:14 -0800

Thank you, Mal, for bringing this to everyone's attention. Everyone, whether they have a flickr account or are considering purchasing a flickr account, needs to know about this. I'm still amazed and shocked that one offense can cause flickr staff to overreact without any chance of appeal by deleting comments, regardless of the fact 99% of them had nothing to do with the original offending comment and regardless of the fact that they were in other people's streams. I've had some of her comments erased from my stream. You'd better believe that if I knew someone was going to do that, that I would have put a stop to it. flickr put a bad taste in my mouth from the previous censorship episode that you experienced. That taste is more bitter than ever now.

db

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:23:10 -0800

What a fucking smug response from Flickr. But given they are part of a Yahoo, which helps the Chinese government imprison bloggers, I guess we're just lucky they haven't been turning us into Homeland Security. Yet. It truly is the community (ie. the actual users) at Flickr which makes it worthwhile. But stories like this are having me seriously considering taking my photos (and yearly subscription dollars) elsewhere.

BillS

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:15:06 -0800

It is good to see someone with such a following (such as you and wskrz) blogging this - people need to be aware of the level of "service" they can expect when signing up for a Flickr account. Whatever happened to this country? We've gone from "the customer is always right" to "up yours, jack, I've got your money so piss off". Thanks, Mal. Bill S.

PJ Bird

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:14:16 -0800

Even though the first wave of rage is over, I am STILL so pissed off about this. Way to overreact, flickr!

ben bang

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:36:55 -0800

Dayum... and just when I was all set to finally set myself up a flickr account. On second thought...