Saturday, March 26, 2016

Inconsiderate?

Flickr is a photo site that allows even pornographic photos but then it has a system of content filters where when marking photos "restricted", people with a so called Safe Search on cannot see those photos.


 I was looking at pending photos as a moderator of a group and a photo came in with two cute young kids. The photographer was thanking people for a very large number of views. I was wondering so I looked at the list of people who had faved the photo. A suspicious name took me to a favourite's page, where, using a moderate setting, I could not see most of the photos. But what was worse was that one could immediately see photos that should have been marked restricted but where marked moderate. It is strange that people who know of the different filters, should so misunderstand and misuse them.


 I understand people who will not show photos of children in case the "wrong" people might fave them. At least you should always check where your photos are included.


 It leaves the question whether I should contact the photographer? But they are his photos and his responsibility. He might not like interference.

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