Comments on: Do You Find This Painting Obscene?

By: darkfire

darkfire — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:36:26 +0000

@Dane Deasy he already does its called Zooomr

By: Dane Deasy

Dane Deasy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:39:17 +0000

Flickr has the legal right to do whatever it pleases. If their practices aren’t up to your standards, don’t give them your money.

Get your own domain. Put any image you want on it. Then you can be free and rely only on yourself as censor. That’s the way to go.

By: santa

santa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:38:53 +0000

I don’t understand why people continue to use Flickr given all the bruhaha about censorship. I don’t use it and with all that I hear about its’ rampant censorship I would never even think of using it. Nor do I visit flickr accounts. I just avoid doing business with assholes in general.

By: Hamayoon

Hamayoon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:51:09 +0000

Beauty is which attracts your soul and that which loves to give and not to receive.

By: Andy Frazer

Andy Frazer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:11:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Flickr search trick. I never realized that the Flickr Ministry of Values had marked some of my photos and not-safe.

That explains why my daily view counts for one of those pictures suddenly dropped from 20/day down to nothing

Andy

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:49:59 +0000

Jason there is nothing wrong with that picture even if you hired a model to do that same pose as the painting as it’s a work of art. Art is a passion for people and the even if this was a photo look how much time and work that would of went into this just for one photo as it’s a passion. I agree with Tom on this matter as if Yahoo wants to stay competitive with Google they really need to think about the staff at Flickr and let them go and move on with more a open mind for Artist.

Problem with Flickr they can’t tell the difference from Art to Porn.

James

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:40:39 +0000

I think the problem is the cropping and effects on this photo. If you had kept in the painting’s frame and not converted to black and white, it would have been more obvious that you took a photo of a painting and it wasn’t some artsy photo shoot of a live model. I’m sure Flickr’s censorship department has to review images pretty quickly, and you didn’t make it easy for them to identify the subject based purely on the photo. That doesn’t justify the restriction, but I can see how they could make the mistake…