On 2011-05-25 9:06, David Savage wrote:
I'd be interested to know what exactly you have a problem with.
Broken trust: (a) "land grabs" on uploaded content ownership; (b)
implementing an API for third-party developers that didn't respect the
privacy settings of the users that posted the content and set the
privacy for them, until the screaming was overpowering; (c) incredible
(incredibly transparent) attempts to make the first two furors go away
with dissembling rather than action.
Like Sony, Flickr permanently and flagrantly threw away my trust. I
don't associate with people I don't trust if I have a choice.
I also think I wasn't crystal clear in my earlier posting. I have no
desire to change anyone's mind. I'll do what I do, you do what you do,
and we'll all get along or go our separate ways. If Flickr is where the
"collaborative project" group wants to work, more power to them. If
Flickr is a convenient place for you to host your PESOs, GESOs, etc.,
knock yourself out. It's none of my business.
That said, I've seen these things play out before. Something like the
collaboration project can be the first step in a downward trend for the
original. In the end, one of three scenarios usually plays out:
1) All of the venues thrive and the overall community gets stronger
2) The old venue withers to pointlessness as the new venue(s) thrive,
or at least hang on
3) All the venues limp or dissolve due to community fragmentation
I'd really hate to see the PDML community fragment into oblivion, though
it will probably happen eventually, anyway.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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