Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr

An anonymous reader writes "Flickr and Second Life fans seem to have collided head-on over a little known policy on Flickr that 'delists' an account from public areas, including search, when more than half of your content is non-photographic in nature. Flickr stated that most people searching the site are looking for photographic content so the restriction is in place merely to keep the site focused on its original intent. From the article: 'As a result, many screenshots on Flickr are AWOL — at least as far as the general public is concerned. That's angering and confusing some of the people who carefully stage scenes in the popular virtual world and religiously post the results online.'"

Re:They're screwing themselves ...

[Rob T Firefly]

Just upload a crap load of pictures, yours or ones you find randomly on the `net, and then add all the screenshots you wish.

Nice one! You can even hit up Wikimedia Commons [wikimedia.org] for free public domain and Creative Commons pics to use, and it'd all be nice and legal to boot.

Market Forces

[Doomedsnowball]

So why don't people use Photobucket [photobucket.com] or Snapfish [snapfish.com] or Snapzilla [sluniverse.com] or VillagePhotos [villagephotos.com] or Zoto [zoto.com] or TinyPic [tinypic.com] or SmugMug [smugmug.com] or Greatest Journal [greatestjournal.com] or...

My personal favorite DeviantArt [deviantart.com]?

There's not much of a story here except that if you commit to one hosting service, you run the risk of them being complete jerks with your content choice.

Re:Makes Sense

[tehwebguy]

i've never browsed rederosity, but myspace is not an option. 8 image uploads are allowed, and not as a gallery. they are greatly resized using horribly low quality jpeg compression.

deviantart is one of the slowest sites i've ever used.

flickr should definitely change their policy for things like this.

Screenshots sites

[jedigeek]

A friend of mine developed a site specifically for screenshots in virtual worlds:

http://multitap.net/ [multitap.net]

It's fairly popular, easy to use, has an API so you could hack it straight into WoW. Maybe some of you upset by flickr would like this?

Re:simple solutions

[bob65]

It brings up a good point though, since cameras are moving away from film to memory cards and pixels: just what constitutes an image?>

Well in this case it's pretty clear-cut - it's whatever the flickr creators want to have on their website. I guess that could result in some "unfair" "censorship" but meh: their site, their rules.