I removed the link to the weirdo in the Flickr page. Didn't feel like giving him the benefit of publicity on Flickr. This is him, though.

This Flickr thing - well it's really the only outlet I have. I guess getting a couple on explore so soon is just beginner's luck. I'm not a member of any photo club or anything so short of continuously boring my kids with it I have to show my rubbish somewhere

It's nice, especially when you're new to Flickr like I am. 100s of views and contacts with new people - that's really the reason I do this Flickr thing, it spurs me on =)

Crikey, silly old follow up to this same old thread. So I look at my stats and see referrals to this photo from this 'explore' page - and couldn't understand why. But on the hoverover - little old Emma is apparently "interesting". That tickles me pink

Strange, and sad, isn't it. How their flagship dslr has been undercut by the k-x.

Yeah, he's well weird. He ticks a lot of "uh-oh" boxes. That American lady lawyer even mailed me back, nothing to do with her either.

Thank you ever so much for the kind words, one tries

About the copyright though, I don't really mind anyone using my stuff as long as they at least give me named credit? My stuff is just a bit of a hobby anyway - hardly worth anything - and I only ever put the low res image on there (so that in the unlikely case that I ever make the cover of National Geographic they would presumably need to contact me to get the pixels for a 300dpi print...?)

Probably because you called them bits of meat - you mean burgher

(Funny to me because I'm dutch and it's a dutch derived word)

This is seriously weird.

There's a person on Flickr called aftab.com who runs groups dedicated to posting pictures of children.

The domain, aftab.com, is for some US lawyer "providing expertise on cybercrime and cyber-abuse prevention, privacy and data management, cyber-risk management and cyberspace in the workplace issues and on children's Internet and wireless issue"

Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit odd?

I'm a Flickr noob, I've only been there a month so still in the process of discovering how to avoid the nitwits... failing apparently

... so I ask, ever so politely, in a photo's description not to add graphics - ie butterfly or fairy or whatever icons inviting me to whatever group or giving me whatever award. They make the page load slow, and well some are really just desperate please for attention.

One guy comes along and posts 25 in his comment

So I mail him, ever so politely - could he please edit his comment and just remove all those graphics, thank you?

He has a complete tantrum, unfavourites the photo which he thought was just amazing, deletes all his comments, sends me a stroppy mail and then blocks me

yeesh

Flickr is nice to meet other enthusiasts but that sort of stuff just makes me despair

That's ludicrous, isn't it