» Flickr has censored my account….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkdaze/
so someone complained to flickr about my latest upload, the picture of emma in red shoes and pasties on a green background. Apparently its not safe for work, so some conscientious person at flickr branded my whole acccount ‘moderate’ which means that you cant find me on searches, or unless you have safesearch switched off. This is a real shame, and messes up my website a fair bit, (as it runs directly from flickr api) as now i have to set it that all images even Private on Moderate ones appear on the site. So now my website may not be ’safe for work’ as I have no way of seperating the work. So if before you wanted to see a nude, (i only have about 4 on the whole flickr photostream), you would have to go to the flickr page, not the website to view this. This is tricky, a lot of students of all ages view my site, I know this by the fact that a fair chunk of them contact me with questions, or tell me that they are writing essays on some of my images etc. Now though these more risque images will be on this site, and therefore on your screen at work, college, uni or school, and there aint nothing I can do about this right now. Flickr wont reply to my mails yet- and they gave me no warning at all that they were considering changing my account- just an email this morning saying it was changed to moderate, and then a curtly added final line that they will delete my account if anyone else complains.
Now please bear in mind this was one of the images that they comlained about
Emma in a skirt made of paper, with a paper necklace, and the rubiest of Ruby Shoes, in a house that began to pitch, realising she aint in Brighton no more.
I have marked images as moderate in the past, as I didnt want to offend, but more importantly wanted to keep my website worksafe and now they do this, which is a real shame. I love flickr, its ace, but they can be damn heavy handed in trying to appease the masses, when a huge chunk of the site is now being used for real hardcore porn. Its a shame that its a community that cant police itself, but I guess now its just a bit too big…. Hopefully we can resolve this soon, and they will deem my work safe again and the account will revert. In the meantime the website here may look a bit shaky. Easy now, DD.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
What a pain. Hope you get it sorted soon DD.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Where did you get this theme from? It’s pretty clean and nice