Comments on: Flickr Comment Spam: Any Solutions?

By: Mack

Mack — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:13:23 +0000

Thanks. That’s the one I settled on myself. Initially I was a bit cautious of the vast selection of plug-ins available. Like my cats, I was suspicious and felt the need to wap them first.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:57:19 +0000

Mack: The firefox search plugin I use is Flickr CC-BY full text. You can find it via the link in my post.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:55:43 +0000

Ah, Thanks Karoli. I didn’t understand how that worked. But man, those group invites sure do look like spam! Ugh. There’s got to be a better way to handle that side of the process.

- Amy Gahran

By: Karoli

Karoli — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:11:35 +0000

Amy, that’s not really comment spam. Some groups invite images in, and then the members comment by posting preset code (usually created by the group admin) to award it with a comment and a “vote”.

The more ‘votes’ an image gets, the more likely it is to wind up on the “interestingness 500′, which is the goal of many who participate in the Flickr Community.

I recently posted this photo, which was invited to the same group you mention in your post. As you can see, I didn’t receive the same number of ‘votes’ as the duck did.

Nancy White would call those comments a ‘community indicator’. To me, they’re a lot of work, so I’ve actually considered taking the tack of asking that my images NOT be invited to groups.

(PS — mine are available under the same CC license…feel free to use them)

By: Mack

Mack — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:09:13 +0000

Hi Amy,
I didn’t know about the FireFox plugin. Thanks. Which of the plugins are you using?

I also hadn’t thought of adding a comment to an image I’m using. Good idea. I had been sending private messages to the owner but I like the idea of letting other viewers know that an image has been used.