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Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the screenshots-more-real-than-photos-for-some dept.

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.'"

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  1. simple solutions by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:simple solutions by vishbar · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Delisted, not removed. by Aladrin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are simply delisted. Nobody WANTS to search for your crappy 'I'm so awesome' screenshots. All of your stuff can still be accessed, just not by people who don't care.

    Big freaking deal.

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  3. My Rights Online?!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And what pray tell, do Flickrs policies and actions have any relevance to my rights online or any rights offline?!!!

    If you dont like Flickrs actions, dont use them anymore. This isnt a holy violation of your rights or anything else.

    1. Re:My Rights Online?!! by 14CharUsername · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because it's discrimination against virtual people.

  4. Stop whining by tygerstripes · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If I really really want a steady crapflood of WoW Wedding shots, I'll tick the "bore me senseless" option. You can put what you like on Flickr, just don't assume anyone else gives a damn. Delisting is a good thing for people who want to use the site as it was intended.

    If you're really that obsessed with having people look at your uninteresting life, why not go and get one. Then take pictures of it. Sheesh.

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  5. Re:Virtual != Real (yet) by iainl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They do. Then they delist the virtual one from the search engine, because their site isn't meant to be for looking at some stranger's screenshots.

    Also, this is not news; it was in the click-through agreement from way back, and people who actually draw their own pictures in photoshop or whatever have already hit the problem, had an argument with Flickr and lost once already.

    If nerd X isn't allowed to post homemade hentai, I see no reason why they would let nerd Y post a 3rd-rate imitation of same in Second Life.

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