Caffeination / Joseph Dunphy posted a reply:
I could go through the various ways in which you guys have gone out of your way to be douchebags. There was the member who kept submitting portrait shots promoting her line of avatar fashions, even though there is a posted rule against the posting of portrait or fashion shots, and for a very good reason: they're boring. But there are even better reasons: because it's my group and I said so, and you all agreed to respect my wishes in this matter when you joined the group, so one has to ask, are you as good as your word?
Once again, somebody who was 100% in the wrong got a mouth on her, and got her sorry ass banned as a result. There should no surprises in this: if you were a guest in somebody's home and you abused the host, would you expect to get to stay? If your answer to that question is "yes", were you raised by wolves? Who thinks like that? The answer would seem to be "most of the membership of this group", because as some of you will remember after this girl was thrown out of her (and deservedly so) the rest of you staged a little mutiny and started submitting nothing other than portrait and fashion shots, with the thought of putting me in my place, I guess?
Again, I had to ask, why am I bothering to help these people?
The latest issue doesn't involve any rules of the group being broken, but it does reflect a growing problem at Flickr: mass crossposting of images. Almost all of the several dozen images in the queue this morning are already in over a hundred groups, apiece, so I find that I'm being asked by the members to take my time to approve images that provide little added value to the groups in which they appear, because they are the sort of content that visitors have seen again and again. My time as a volunteer is not being valued and my efforts are not being respected by those on whose behalf I have offered them. The group has failed to function as a community, the discussion section having been shut down after I discovered that the only new topics being posted came from mass crossposting assholes who wanted to post abuse because they were told that they couldn't do just whatever the Hell they felt like.
There are other things I could mention, but a beautiful autumn day (and a cup of tea) is waiting outside for me as I write this, and most of those are far more interesting than the basic lack of civility that I've seen out of most of you, and the failure of socialization that this group keeps putting on display. I don't need this shit and I'm out of here.
Maybe I will come back in a few months, reopen the pool for submissions and see if you guys have since developed an interest in the possibility of acting like human beings as opposed to ... I don't know, rabid baboons? Probably, I won't. Some of you know what I am in real life, when the Internet is not involved, and one thing I've never been short on is things to do with my time. My social life might not be everything I'd like it to be (whose is, really), but when I turn off the computer, it is a Hell of a lot better than this shit, that's for sure.
The Internet consumes my time and my good spirits, and I really don't see what it is giving me in return that I really should want to hold onto. If something occurs to me, maybe I'll give you guys another chance, but I can't imagine what that would be, so for the duration I am done promoting your work. Go find yourself another sucker to abuse.
One other thing - this is not baseball. I don't have to give you guys three strikes before you're out. If I do give you another chance and you make me regret that, I'm not going to try to win your over and I'm not going to wait for you to come around. I'm going to lock this group down for good, and we'll be done.
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