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Photograph of Anna Bell's Face and Some of Her Ink

In accord with the Flickr rules for moderating my photos, I have selected "safe" for this portrait instead of "moderate" or "restricted." As late as February 1, 2022, Flickr staff provided this simple guide for Flickr users so that we might select the proper rating for our photos on this site: "'A good rule of thumb is, bare breasts and bottoms are 'moderate.' Full frontal nudity is 'restricted.'" That "good rule of thumb" has been the Flickr standard given by staff members for many years. A woman's face, in profile, and the art work (ink) on her back do not cross the line according to Flickr rules.

 

I originally posted this portrait a few years ago. Tonight, on February 1, 2022, looking at it again, I decided to revise it, make a better version. (I was listening to EXILE ON MAIN STREET as I did this, a "remastered" version of the double album I bought on vinyl back in the early 70s when the Rolling Stones released it. Apparently, the Stones felt the album could be "remastered" to sound better in 2020, and that's the version I was listening to on Apple Music.) Once I "remastered" the photo above, I moved it to the front of my portfolio. I immediately received a "notification" message (under the "bell icon") from Flickr informing me that the "Flickr Moderation Bot" had changed the rating on my photo to "restricted." That wasn't the only change. When that happened, the groups this photo had been in dropped dramatically to only those groups that accept "restricted" photos. I did not remove my photo from any group; the bot's rating change did. Following the rules laid out by Flickr, in case I felt the bot had made a mistake, I changed the moderation to "safe" by doing so "manually." The photo, however, was not added back into the groups from which it had been removed by the bot. No word in the title or in the tags suggests that this photo should be rated "moderate" or "restricted." I do sometimes see tags under photos that are not related to the photo, but are clearly tags used to bring viewers. When the bot decided my photo here should be "restricted," that bot was not acting on any words in my title or my tags.

 

For more Anna Bell, click on her album below. (To access her album on your iPhone, click on the information icon at the bottom of this screen; then, when your next screen appears, scroll down just a bit, and you'll see her "album.")

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Uploaded on February 1, 2022
Taken on January 21, 2016