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Flickr awardy things - wtf?

  • 28-06-2007 9:44pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭


    Guys, I joined Flickr a few weeks ago and a few folks have commented on my pics (thank you, you know who you are).
    But what is about these awards that folk give when making a comment, how do/can they do that? When I look at some oh-so-ordinary pics that don't inspire me to even look a second time, I see some that have a sh*tload of these awards like this
    and this.

    I mean, WTF? Am I looking at the same photo as the rest of these people? Are there some people on Flickr that have nothing to do all day but dish these things out?
    I have seen some absolute gems while cruising Flickr and those do deserve their awards, but COME ON! A wall with a crappy HDR sky?

    Not that I'm jealous about not having any, mind you. :rolleyes: They obviously don't mean anything, looking at some of the ones that have them...

    How seriously do other Flickr'ers take them?

    B.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Post a pic then ask everyone in After Hours to vote it the best.


    Simple really.


    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Hehe, with a very large grain of salt is the answer to that.

    Personally for me it depends on who has commented and the nature of the award. If its a random posting some dog picture saying my shot has been 'sniffed' out as being 'cool' then I pay it no heed whatsoever. Think 'nice of you to post but errr I dont think ill join that group thanks'. I reckon those ones are just an effort to get you to join the group they are tagging the shot for.

    A few of my contacts, who I respect have posted 'awards' on my shots though that I would value more. The tend to be groups with specific themes like macro or bw, and also tend to have simple award gifs, or even just text, usually accompanied with a decent comment from the contact saying something more meaningful than 'cool man'.

    I think we all have flickr contacts whose opinions we really value and appreciated. If i get an award/group request from one of them Im happy, but sniffing dogs and oscar style awards... errrr thanks but not today mate!! ;)

    (ps: some lovely shots there on your flickr... must take a proper gander)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭Ideo


    Benster wrote:
    I mean, WTF? Am I looking at the same photo as the rest of these people? Are there some people on Flickr that have nothing to do all day but dish these things out?

    ROFL when i clicked on the crappy wall wih warped HDR!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Just some people with nothing to do than showing their own interest in some photos.
    Personally, I prefer teling the truth or nothing. My award is to download the picture and look at it few more times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Tbh, there's a lot of pimping of work in Flickr. People sign themselves up for every group, and enter their photos into every group.

    I prefer someone posting up something rather than a generic award or a 'hit or miss' etc... Though I don't enter my photos into many groups at all - Maybe the boards.ie ones and that's about it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    It's pretty much a case of "ooh I just spent ages picking out a gif for you, now come and comment on my pictures and plaster them with awards too please"... flickr's version of socialising is, well, mutual appreciation, to put it politely.

    It's just one of those things, I suppose, some people use tons of smileys and stuff like that on forums, and it's the same thing there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Flickr seems to be more like MySpace than a proper place for people to post their work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Tbh, it really depends on what you use it for...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭shanethemofo


    Tbh i like those pictures u think are crappy, its not all about what your taking a picture of, its the way that you take it that counts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Benster wrote:
    How seriously do other Flickr'ers take them?


    I hate any GIFs, logos or anything else in comments that isn't just plain old text. I usually delete comments which have gaudy crap all over them and I DEFINITELY delete the ones that are animating. It can really ruin the viewing experience to have one of those stupid childlish things flashing in yer face. Uhhh, I guess I don't rate the awards then. Except on the rare occasion I make it into Explore, that's cool but it's bad for your sanity, coz trying to get into Explore is more addictive than crack.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I hate those "award" replies, and I typically delete them on sight.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Never got any of those dog or oscar awards although I see them everywhere haha.I won't usually add my photos to those broad kind of groups that accept any photos but if I get an invite to a topical group(e.g forest group,castle group etc. )I usually add it.You're just showing the photo to people with similar interests so I don't see the harm in it.

    On a similar note I tried out the whole "add to loads of groups and get loads of awards" method on one of my photos to see whether it would make explore.Turns out if you have any average photo and you send it to the right groups it's quite easy.Most of the people who comment hardly even look at the photo though so it feels kind of cheap :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭bigeoino


    yup, the quality on Flickr is pretty varied - both of the images and the comments... so as you would expect poor photos on Flickr, it's only fair to expect pointless comments. It's how you take them that's important, as has been said above, I would suggest just taking on-board the ones whose author you have respect for.

    As for the "sniffed out"/ "flickies" type comments, it's sort of like photostream pollution, I honestly don't mind anyone leaving a comment but I am really starting to resent them littering a photo's comments with this Gifs.

    If I could delete the GIF while leaving the comment I would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Benster


    You can delete comments? Cooooooool!

    Well, having come in today and seeing the comments left by some of you overnight, I thank you again. (wasn't trying to just pimp my pics, honest! :-) I'd take a decent one-liner which actually deals with the particular picture more seriously than a generic "Nice one", even if the person really hated it. So I'm hoping to AVOID getting any of those Gif awards, to be honest, as I do think they are meaningless (in an American "Havaniceday!" way) and they dilute/pollute what I think is a great site.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    I tend to add my photo's to a good few groups. Groups that are themed so that the photo can be seen by like minded people. I fell into the trap in the early days of submitting some to those voting/marking groups. Not anymore.

    Another thing that I've noticed lately when I comment on a photo and that photo has been added to one of these groups that my recent comments on others is clogged up with crap. Some good photographs from members here go without comment from me for that reason.

    Give gifs the gip I say!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    A lot of the sh*te comes from those Post 1, Rate 3 groups too, where people have to post up bull about photos. Avoid them like a young wan with a dose of the clap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    lol, I cracked up at that photo of the castle. It's like bebo. Are the premium account worth it? Being limited to three sets is fairly annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Unlimited sets, unlimited storage & the Replace feature make it so. But I'll be slightly less tempted to renew my account now that they've ditched Paypal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    TimAy wrote:
    Being limited to three sets is fairly annoying.

    Didn't know you were only allowed 3 sets.
    So much for expanding my Flickr gallery...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭CONMIKE12


    The way i look at it, posting to groups is a way of showing your shots to a wider audience and seeing what people think of them. Like having an exhibition . You wouldn't have an exhibition in a gallery and then not advertise the fact that it was on. Tbh , i appreciate more when complete strangers comment on one of my shots and you can often get critque comments that teach you a thing or two. Also , I often get to see shots that i never would have seen , because they are ina certain group that i've posted to.Then you check out the persons other shots and you can learn a lot from following on from there and finding stuff you never would have come across . I save any comments that I have for photos that i truly think are good. If a group I've posted to requires me to comment on , say another 3 shots within the group , i make the effort to find the ones i think are great shots. I think it offers the person encouragement and confidence that they are heading in the right direction with their work. I know it did just that for me when i took up photography .


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