Mike Wood Photography
Censored by flickr
I received an email from flickr support staff today telling me my entire account had been set to Moderate because of someone complaining about Violet's 'Curve' image and a couple others... Apparently that image is against the community guidelines specifically as the rep wrote that "as the "safe" area of the Flickr site must be free of all frontal/rear nudity, thong/butt/pastie shots, sexualized content, etc..." and that apparently includes models that are fully dressed and wearing more than a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or the ads in Vogue.
So I had to manually sift through in Organizr and reflag all 100 nudes or semi nudes or not nudes at all apparently and make sure they were set to moderate. The other 2200 images in my account - including the whales and cars and mountains were blocked to casual viewing outside of flickr till I did. I even tossed in a couple more like Violet's image to made sure I didn't offend the gods.
Where will this stop? I can see on some levels how nipples may offend kids who have never breast fed or not been to a nude beach or taken a shower before. but a bum? My work for the most part is not 'porn'. and yet the people who send me invites and have their cum shots, anal sex and so on in their streams and are still counted as SAFE. When you complain it is well known that flickr will often send a response back saying that you need to know how to manage filters or block users...
Do a search sometime not logged into flickr for NUDE and you come up with 137,000 images by that tag alone (none of my nudes were ever found that way). And yet a fully clothed albeit sensual image gets my account blacked out to the world till I play nice? Fair? No.
I however have to play by the rules. And I am not about to rat out the artists whose work I enjoy and have their nudes set as safe just to make a "he is doing it too!" point a la McCarthyism. but every nasty banging your wife image I see that might be an unflagged nasty shot will be reported.
Where does this vanilla or yahooization of flickr end? As it is seen in the Middle East, if someone complains there that one of my images of a woman doesnt contain a head scarf, do they bow to that lowest common denominator?
Really. I have been on Flickr since 2005. Been a pro that long too. and I have seen some changes.... but this is almost enough for me to throw in the towel when a non nude non sexual image gets flagged.
Censored by flickr
I received an email from flickr support staff today telling me my entire account had been set to Moderate because of someone complaining about Violet's 'Curve' image and a couple others... Apparently that image is against the community guidelines specifically as the rep wrote that "as the "safe" area of the Flickr site must be free of all frontal/rear nudity, thong/butt/pastie shots, sexualized content, etc..." and that apparently includes models that are fully dressed and wearing more than a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or the ads in Vogue.
So I had to manually sift through in Organizr and reflag all 100 nudes or semi nudes or not nudes at all apparently and make sure they were set to moderate. The other 2200 images in my account - including the whales and cars and mountains were blocked to casual viewing outside of flickr till I did. I even tossed in a couple more like Violet's image to made sure I didn't offend the gods.
Where will this stop? I can see on some levels how nipples may offend kids who have never breast fed or not been to a nude beach or taken a shower before. but a bum? My work for the most part is not 'porn'. and yet the people who send me invites and have their cum shots, anal sex and so on in their streams and are still counted as SAFE. When you complain it is well known that flickr will often send a response back saying that you need to know how to manage filters or block users...
Do a search sometime not logged into flickr for NUDE and you come up with 137,000 images by that tag alone (none of my nudes were ever found that way). And yet a fully clothed albeit sensual image gets my account blacked out to the world till I play nice? Fair? No.
I however have to play by the rules. And I am not about to rat out the artists whose work I enjoy and have their nudes set as safe just to make a "he is doing it too!" point a la McCarthyism. but every nasty banging your wife image I see that might be an unflagged nasty shot will be reported.
Where does this vanilla or yahooization of flickr end? As it is seen in the Middle East, if someone complains there that one of my images of a woman doesnt contain a head scarf, do they bow to that lowest common denominator?
Really. I have been on Flickr since 2005. Been a pro that long too. and I have seen some changes.... but this is almost enough for me to throw in the towel when a non nude non sexual image gets flagged.