Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr

An anonymous reader writes "Flickr and Second Life fans seem to have collided head-on over a little known policy on Flickr that 'delists' an account from public areas, including search, when more than half of your content is non-photographic in nature. Flickr stated that most people searching the site are looking for photographic content so the restriction is in place merely to keep the site focused on its original intent. From the article: 'As a result, many screenshots on Flickr are AWOL — at least as far as the general public is concerned. That's angering and confusing some of the people who carefully stage scenes in the popular virtual world and religiously post the results online.'"

Comments

simple solutions

[gEvil (beta)]

This is easy enough to fix. You can take pictures of your computer monitor with a camera, then upload those. Or you can take your screenshot, print it out, scan it back in, then upload the scan. There's a bunch of ways around this. C'mon, use a little creativity, people!

Re:simple solutions

[LiquidCoooled]

What if I take a picture of my screen with the digital camera, import it into the computer, insert it into a word document, email it to a friend who can print it out place it onto a wooden table, take a picture with a nice camera, develop the film, scan it in before finally uploading it to flickr.

Would it be acceptible then??

(appologies to dailywtf for copying an idea)

Re:simple solutions

[vishbar]

Photos are like porn--you know them when you see them.

Need my morning coffee

[gotem]

I at first read that as 'non-pornographic in nature'.
I was about to add Flickr to my bookmarks

Re:My Rights Online?!!

[14CharUsername]

Because it's discrimination against virtual people.