Hard to love...
I was in two minds about posting this, but what the hell. There's something else about Flickr I feel needs to be aired, brought out in the open, examined in all its glory.
Just as there are some people whose photos you love, those you add as Contacts and Favourites etc etc., there are some people who just bug the hell out of you and generate irrational hatred. Obviously this has nothing to do with actually meeting them, nor anything to do with their photos. It's just that you get a sense of their irony-free, creepy, over-ingratiating personalities because they post loads of bland and sucky uppy comments on other people's photos.
There is one individual who is often first with a comment. I tend to feel that the first comment sets the tone for the rest of the thread. I try not to leave too many "great photo" comments these days. You want to compliment people occasionally, but these days at least Flickr lets them know even if you just add the photo to your favourites.
It shouldn't annoy me but it does, the sucky uppy "vote early, vote often" commenter. Sometimes you laugh, when someone has posted something mildly erotic for example, and you get the likes of, "great depth of field," or, "superb focus," when what people are really thinking is, "great tits," or, "nice bum." Or is that just me? Anyway, at times you get the impression of some underhand stalking, the idea that someone is lying in wait, logged into flickr 24/7, and adding comments as soon as something new goes up... you see this particular person's face so often that you want to run screaning from the room.
And, of course, he's prolly thinking the exact same thing about me.
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Just as there are some people whose photos you love, those you add as Contacts and Favourites etc etc., there are some people who just bug the hell out of you and generate irrational hatred. Obviously this has nothing to do with actually meeting them, nor anything to do with their photos. It's just that you get a sense of their irony-free, creepy, over-ingratiating personalities because they post loads of bland and sucky uppy comments on other people's photos.
There is one individual who is often first with a comment. I tend to feel that the first comment sets the tone for the rest of the thread. I try not to leave too many "great photo" comments these days. You want to compliment people occasionally, but these days at least Flickr lets them know even if you just add the photo to your favourites.
It shouldn't annoy me but it does, the sucky uppy "vote early, vote often" commenter. Sometimes you laugh, when someone has posted something mildly erotic for example, and you get the likes of, "great depth of field," or, "superb focus," when what people are really thinking is, "great tits," or, "nice bum." Or is that just me? Anyway, at times you get the impression of some underhand stalking, the idea that someone is lying in wait, logged into flickr 24/7, and adding comments as soon as something new goes up... you see this particular person's face so often that you want to run screaning from the room.
And, of course, he's prolly thinking the exact same thing about me.
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Friday, February 18, 2005
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