Comments on: Did Flickr Add the Yahoo Bug to The Flickr Logo To Quell Rumors That Yahoo Was About to Pull the Plug on Flickr?

By: Darryn van der Walt

Darryn van der Walt — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:03 +0000

Not sure if you have noticed, but the Flickr logo has been updated to only show the (R) from Yahoo bit on mouse over – otherwise it’s nice and clean and just says Flickr

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:11:33 +0000

TranceMist, I’ll probably have a post coming out on that at some point. I’ve been trying to interact with flickr via help mail requesting a list of all of my photos that are NIPSA’d (Not in Public Site Areas) but have been getting a similar run around via a similar amazingly incompetent string of emails myself. My case has supposedly been escalated at this point. We’ll see what they come back with.

But basically Flickr has reviewed some of my photos as “safe” and has marked them as such but has flagged them so that they do not come up in search or other public areas on Flickr. They can’t be added to galleries or other ways that people use images on Flickr. At least the images I’ve been able to uncover as NIPSA’d typically contain critical written commentary of Flickr censorship practices.

So they are essentially censoring imagery of mine objecting to their censorship. Only to my face they are labeling the photos as safe, leading me to believe that the photos are not being flagged when they have a hidden NIPSA flag on them that I or other Flickr users can’t see.

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By: TranceMist

TranceMist — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:01:32 +0000

> “secret hidden flags put on some of my images to bury them on the site.”

Really? You should write about this!
(I don’t recall seeing anything on this before)

By: Adam Harrison

Adam Harrison — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:21:31 +0000

It’s “from Yahoo” not “by Yahoo”.

By: clarke thomas

clarke thomas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:17:48 +0000

I figured they did to re-brand themselves. The new ceo seems to be cutting the fluff.

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By: William Beem

William Beem — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:41:43 +0000

I agree with you that it sucks being banned from the Help forum. If Flickr staff are saying that discussions of censorship aren’t related to Help issues, then they need to create another Feedback forum for such discussions to take place. It’s unacceptable for them to say that a forum isn’t the proper venue, and then fail to provide a proper venue for customer feedback.