[Leica] Flickr followers

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Hi Douglas,

You just reaffirmed my decision to avoid all social media.  The LUG and 
the Olympus List are all I need in the way of on-line correspondence.

Yes, Brian is the greatest "enabler" that any photography nut could wish 
for.  Thanks, again, Brian!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/20/2015 7:27 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> I mentioned the Flickr follower problem before. I'm still getting a 
> number
> of new followers for my little used Flickr a/c - some are fine, but 
> some are
> like this guy - followers of hundreds of thousands. As some others 
> here also
> use Flickr, this is my somewhat petty riposte to him and others by way 
> of a
> Flickr testamonial. Flickr doesn't seem to have an adequate complaints
> procedure that will handle individuals that are seemingly wasting others'
> time in their drive to get their own numbers up.
>
> You said this about Name Deleted:
> "You have to admire this photographer's dedication, resources, and 
> chutzpah.
> He has added my work to the other 154,860 photographers he is 
> following. I'm
> so thrilled that he obviously spends all of his time so devoted to the 
> art
> of photography, and regularly checks 154,861 photographers' work. As 
> many of
> these multiple thousands of photographers post several images a day, 
> he must
> have to look at several hundred thousand images a week at a minimum. 
> That's
> real dedication.
>
> How long do most individual images get vetted for? Probably 10 to 20
> seconds, longer if one wants to appreciate the nuances, and context of 
> the
> image and the photographer. How long is that? It's almost immeasurable to
> people of my limited mathematical abilities. What a guy! What a life of
> dedication. There should be some sort of award for this. I nominate 
> him for
> the Flickr Faithful Follower Award. If there is no such award, I think 
> there
> should be. Did I look at his own pictures? No, sadly. I didn't have the
> time, and I rather suspect he doesn't have the time to take good 
> images, as
> he seems to dedicate his life to other people's images."
>
> I know this won't affect many people here, but it's irritating that a 
> site that I pay money to, allows its customers to be plagued by people 
> like this.
>
> Aren't we lucky that we all have Brian Reid!!
>
> Douglas
>
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