Comments on: Use a Swear Word in a Private Email at Flickr and You Get Your Account Deleted

By: Omsel

Omsel — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:07:27 +0000

Perhaps Flick is just trying to weed out some bad street photogs to improve site searches.

Recalling his hot headed rants in the forums years ago, with a too big for his britches attitute its no wonder after a letter like that he got snuffed. I do shed a tear but Flickr staff maybe a bit sensitive to being called twats and morons??

By: NJHunkguy

NJHunkguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:24:07 +0000

Has Flickr only hire that only one person named Terrence? I was thinking in this economic downturn massive layoff, he should have been fired! NOW!…..

By: bonkyprima

bonkyprima — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:03:08 +0000

Derek Powazek has anger management issues and nothing to do besides play with his star wars legos and wait for his wife to bring home the check. My experience with him is that he is scary phony IRL and ridiculously trite and desperately dismissive of all except his own work. Played the big victim at jpg after blocking progress for years in my view. He’s a stay at home dog mom toy playing miserable little creep in my opinion.

By: jm

jm — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:25:54 +0000

just get on with your life and say the hell with flickr. it’s just some staff that deletes accounts because they don’t like certain pictures, comments or descriptions. it’s some weasel pressing a button. you don’t want to be part of a site like that!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0000

people have been deleted from Photo.net for far far less than that.

its internet Eugenics if you ask me

By: Nathan Sparks

Nathan Sparks — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:41:00 +0000

Huh, off-topic. When did Thomas stop declaring that he’s the CEO of Zooomr when talking about Flickr?

You always have done in the past Thomas, is this an oversight or has something changed?

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:20:00 +0000

Pierre’s email is pretty much the poster child for ‘Customers I don’t need’.

While I’ve got issues as well over Flickr’s policy towards heavily blocked accounts, given that sort of response from a customer for a $25/year service I would terminate them immediately. And unlike Flickr apparently did, I’d make it clear that they were not welcome to return. Some people are simply more trouble than they’re worth as customers, especially on low-buck services.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:34:00 +0000

"would you still have defended your friend?"

The issue isn't whether or not that was a "good" letter to send. I believe Thomas Hawk has already stated that he doesn't approve of the letter. The issue is whether or not flickr staff should have responded by deleting the account. If I walked into my bank and talked that way to the receptionist, I would be told to stop. Then, if I continued, I would be asked to leave. If I continued to come back every day and repeat the behavior, perhaps then, after those many warnings, they might revoke the account, give me my money back and tell me to leave. Flickr basically skipped all those in-between steps, and went straight from "objectionable behavior" to "deleted account," with no intermediary steps. The only warning flickr had given previously was for a different issue.

Angela

By: Mathew Ballard

Mathew Ballard — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:29:00 +0000

Wow! This is looking very ridiculous. I’ve never been a huge fan of Flickr, just like some of the features they have. And although, for now, I won’t stop using Flickr I will seriously think about not continuing my pro account once it runs out sometime next year.

By: tinou

tinou — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:47:00 +0000

your friend is a fucking twat, to use his own words. he does realize that his email is read by a human being, not some robot, right? would he have said the same things to a person’s face? how would you react if he had walked down to flickr HQ and cussed out the receptionist. would you still be defending your friend?