Correct me if i'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge this was mostly
spontaneous during the hackathon? If it was social media team then it wad a
job well done, but that ix not how i perceived it.

Lodewijk
On Aug 11, 2014 12:07 AM, "Joseph Fox" <josephfoxw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I’ll agree with that, Tom. It strikes me as the social media team jumping
> at a chance to go viral - which in fairness is sort of their job. It sucks
> that these kinds of roles can be as unintentionally dickish as in this case.
>
> Joe
>
> On 11 August 2014 at 12:01:38 am, Tom Morris (t...@tommorris.org) wrote:
>
> Thomas Morton wrote:
> > I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing it in the
> > photographers face.
> >
> > Its fine to take a stand on a point of copyright.
> >
> > But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we want
> > to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather than
> > trollish.
> >
>
> Agreed. It is rather tacky, juvenile and slightly unpleasant. Be
> magnanimous in victory and all that. It'd be nice to know who thought
> "take a photo with the monkey selfie" was a useful and productive piece
> of free culture activism. Because it just makes us look like mean jerks.
>
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