Comments on: More on Flickr vs. illustration

By: photos vs illustration

photos vs illustration — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:37:12 +0000

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By: Notes on Design » Blog Archive » FLICKR AND ILLUSTRATORS

Notes on Design » Blog Archive » FLICKR AND ILLUSTRATORS — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:40:01 +0000

[...] used to focus exclusively on photos, and even had a policy early on making non-photographic content [...]

By: fabulousrice

fabulousrice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:45:05 +0000

Hahahah, this is such a nice message and I share the views of the person who wrote it and the concerns of keeping together a website that wishes to gather photographers and nothing but photographers. “It is not the end of the world”. Notice how nice the person is in talking, sort of, to the “rest of the world” aka flickr users who might need to read this, kinda like patronizing and cheering up billions of people all at once in just one sentence… Brilliant..

By: fabulousrice

fabulousrice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:45:00 +0000

By: Yada Yada Yada » Blog Archive » I Hate Flickr

Yada Yada Yada » Blog Archive » I Hate Flickr — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:21:02 +0000

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By: Kary

Kary — Wed, 31 May 2006 04:10:26 +0000

Well, I’ve been Nipda’ed too. And the kicker for me is two things:

(1) If you do a public search for something you know will bring up non-photographic images (like collage or illustrations) you get hundreds of thousands of images…just non of them mine. ;-)
(2) Because I have been NIPSA’ed, if I go into a group I belong to and don’t sign in…my photographs don’t appear. So they aren’t viewable even in photo pools unless you actually log in.

I find this whole thing ridiculous. Obviously their own standards aren’t being held up to from one reviewer to the next or from one day to the next. Hence the reason why some people’s photo streams are deemed acceptable and others not.

By: Kary

Kary — Wed, 31 May 2006 04:10:00 +0000

Well, I’ve been Nipda’ed too. And the kicker for me is two things:

By: Salvor

Salvor — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:26:16 +0000

I suppose I am also a victim of flickr NIPSA and to have my pictures show up in public searches mean a lot to me. Actually that was my reason for using flickr. It is not that I sell my pictures or want many people to look at them – it is just that I am a educator thinking that social tagging (folksonomies) are something my students should understand and flickr is the best example to illustrate social tagging. But then your tags have to be social.

I had quiet a lot of visuals, I started this since I noticed other educators were using flickr for their slides models etc. and my main reason for using flickr was to explore this tool in educational settings.

I am very frustated with being set as NIPSA, I try to obey all copyright laws and I am not comfortable in an environment that I feel is killing creativity.

By: Salvor

Salvor — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:26:00 +0000

I am very frustated with being set as NIPSA, I try to obey all copyright laws and I am not comfortable in an environment that I feel is killing creativity.

By: t o n x

t o n x — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:54:45 +0000

I asked a number of (i think reasonable) questions in that help thread that nobody on the flickr staff has responded to. I'm not directly affected by this, but I'm pretty disappointed. A good chunk of what I enjoy on flickr has been the work of illustrators. I think its odd that Cory Doctorow (who is on their board of advisors) has been pimping numerous non-photo flickr memes on boingboing and yet the staff seem unwilling to acknowledge that this aspect of the service is of value to many users. I know flickr is a small group of people with a lot on their plate, but this seems unnecessarily lame.