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- andrewcsayer, on 11/30/2007, -10/+111How about the horror story where I had a FLICKR Pro account, and because I allegedly broke Yahoo's TOS on Yahoo! Answers, they deleted my Yahoo! account of 8 years - hence ALL my photos were unaccessible on FLICKR. Oh, not to mention web hosting account and email. I'll never forgive the bastards.
- thebadkitty, on 11/30/2007, -5/+66Oh no!! Someone is sending me--gasp--angry comments!! What ever will I do??
Grow a pair, dammit. - coheedcollapse, on 11/30/2007, -2/+47What about the groups of talentless people who think that just because they bought a 20 year old piece of crap camera that overexposes everything it's "art"? That's pretty horrific, right?
- alexkriegsmann, on 11/30/2007, -1/+38this is so ***** lame
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+35Flickr people weird me out. I'm used to being raped verbally by people online, instead I'm passionately molested by kindness over there.
- ThreeDee912, on 11/30/2007, -5/+26By having a backup of all your photos and not relying on Flickr as a archival tool?
- captaindigger, on 11/30/2007, -1/+18"Perhaps the scariest creeps of all on Flickr though are the people who post no photos or profile details but who have a long list of favorites… all of them featuring children."
These complains were from users who have yet to figure out how to use the private radio button and then the friends and family checkbox. - inactive, on 11/30/2007, -2/+15Heh...I've been shooting film for 30+ years. My folks owned a film lab. I worked on staff at a couple of newspapers, as well as working as a television cameraman. I went to film school. I've shot cinema footage on 8mm, Super-8, 16mm, Super-16 and 35mm. I've even hand-cranked 35mm film. I shoot stills on 35mm and medium format on several different cameras, both vintage and modern...and I still mostly suck. I love it and I don't know what I'd do if someone told me I couldn't do it anymore, but I can put some suckage into just about any type of shot. You betcha. Sometimes I pull film out of the soup and want to set it on fire. Ain't just hipster novices that add to the suck factor on Flickr. It's old guys like me, too.
http://flickr.com/photos/r_jackson/ - Yaanu, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12Do you need to read these out loud in a Tales-From-The-Crypt-Announcer type of voice?
- deadbaby, on 11/30/2007, -2/+14I don't think so. Not everyone is a pro and, in fact, a lot of the pro stuff I see on Flickr is just as unoriginal on a more elaborate level. The great thing about the internet is no one forces you to look at anything you don't like.
- breakaway, on 11/30/2007, -2/+12Lame. Never have I cared so little for a story in my digg history. In fact, I cared so little, it tipped the scale and I cared enough to comment.
- ThreeDee912, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9Basically happens on any social networking website. Spam, flaming, pedos, and just plain weirdness. Reminds me of 4chan.
- fredkreuger, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11"The great thing about the internet is no one forces you to look at anything you don't like."
Wait, have you used the internets before? - aladin, on 11/30/2007, -3/+11Pics or it didn't happen.
- jamauss, on 11/30/2007, -3/+11This counts as horror?
- fredkreuger, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9I didn't know people were in the habit of using goatse in their ads.
- einstevo, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9jesus christ welcome to the internet, where public domain means everybody can see your *****.
- fcukbush, on 11/30/2007, -1/+8The scariest one was the guy who put a photo of his children on the internet and then found out a perv was looking at them....
it's not scary because of the perv, it's scary because someone with the naivety of a ***** field mouse is allowed to raise children. - coheedcollapse, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7There's a difference between someone who isn't a pro and someone who is doing it just to fit into some subculture. My girlfriend is really working at it and she's getting noticeably better, but some chick who keeps on taking emo pics of her cleavage with a Lomo isn't ever going to get better.
- fcukbush, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6well if your gonna get mollested it might as well be passionatly
- elnerdo, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6"Passionately molested by kindness"
Interesting diction there. Nothing quite like 'passionate molestation' - feckineejit, on 11/30/2007, -1/+7that comment made me angry. how dare you!
- s0nicfreak, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Oh noes, people who enjoy looking at pictures of children?!?! What if they reach through the internet, through the camera, and though some time/space paradox and molest the kids?!?! Better put on your burquas, kids!
- coheedcollapse, on 11/30/2007, -1/+5No I seriously respect what you do completely! I guess my main annoyance is people getting into photography because it's the "trendy" and "deep" thing to do, but not working at shooting anything other than some crappy close up of their thigh or eye or whatever.
By the way, you have some pretty cool shots there. - MunkeeBoy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4Buried not just for lame but for all of the irrelevant links to Flickr accounts in the comments
- fcukbush, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4take a photo and flickr it.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Thanks, man. I wasn't fishing for compliments, but I'll take 'em. Heh... And I know what you're talking about. I have one guy on my friends list who posts 200 or so photos at a time some nights and a LOT of them are of questionable merit. Digital has allowed people to take a LOT more photos in a day than most of us ever dreamed of when I was a kid. If you pay attention to what you see as you download the photos it can be a really good way to get better fast, but it seems like some people just blaze through hundreds of exposures without ever changing the way they approach the craft.
At least the hipsters with their 50-year-old folding 6x9 cameras are having to stop and think about what they're doing. At the very least it takes considerable time and skill just to re-load the film every 8 shots. And then of course they microwave it or soak it in urine or something to make it look particularly...uh...artistic. ;-) - bagboyrebel, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3I think he meant the cleavage
- Pushkin, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Methinks he wanted links to the Emo Cleavage!
- brufleth, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Photography is relatively easy to do. Note I didn't say do well. It is more instant and approachable than drawing, painting, or sculpting though. With a digital camera you don't even need to deal with expensive developing.
So every wannabe artist who can find the white balance on their point and shoot digital suddenly falls in love with their own washed out face. - PorcupineTree, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3When you mentioned hand-cranking the film I immediately thought of my first camera that my dad got me when I was 8 or 9, an old Canon FTb that's twice my age. I don't shoot film anymore, but I still have that camera and I love it to death. Older cameras have so much more personality.
- vinecrawler, on 11/30/2007, -2/+4stop whining, bitch!
Feel better? :) - coheedcollapse, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3I know you're kidding, but I might as well promote her a bit. She'll freak out when she sees her views go up:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leesie28/ - zwaldowski, on 11/30/2007, -2/+4Really? Reminds me of Digg.
- potterboy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2What about Rachel Devine (Sesame Ellis) and Orkut? Those people were flat out stealing photo's of her child.
- s0nicfreak, on 11/30/2007, -0/+24chan is pretty much the internet condensed into one site.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2Cool nick. I saw them at the Fillmore a little while back. Something about those old cameras I really love. I had a Nikon F80 self-destruct at a concert in Golden Gate Park a few months back and I decided I was just really tired of cameras with a lot of little DC motors inside them. I bought a Voigtländer Bessaflex. My first camera was a Yashica TL Electro, so those old M42 lenses feel really familiar to me and the camera and six lenses cost less than the Nikon and two zoom lenses had cost me. It's really calming to shoot with a camera that doesn't even require batteries to work properly.
- TekTrixter, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2then submit it to Digg
- ThreeDee912, on 11/30/2007, -1/+2http://flickr.com/groups/lomo/
For all of your blurry, overexposed, artistic photos shot with a 'lomo' - bitt3n, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1either you've never been tricked into following a goatse link, or you have rather different tastes than the average bear
- asdfuku, on 11/30/2007, -2/+3I honestly ***** myself.
- Askiba, on 11/30/2007, -1/+2Agreed, sir. Agreed.
- bjornski, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1It's on his MySpace
- chugger1992, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1seems to be the same deal as on myspace
- mem2, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1links 2 pics plz :P
- themastersb, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Where are the pics these horror stories refer to?
- dev3, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Where is the ***** cleavege??
- demodawid, on 11/30/2007, -3/+3have you used Firefox + Adblock Plus before?
- gmprunner, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1Buried for making angry comments.
"Is thebadkitty being offensive? Report it" *CLICK* ;-) - redwolf, on 12/01/2007, -1/+1Before Yahoo ate Flickr, I had my account locked for no reason. Well, if there was a reason, I certainly wasn't notified about it.
After three weeks of repeatedly emailing Yahoo's support bots, I got the account back. I still have no idea why it was blocked or why I got it back when I hadn't managed to contact a human. -
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