A darker side to Flickr...

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So I was just mooching about on the internet, flicking between TP and Flickr (you know, a usual day at work ;)). All of a sudden, whilst browsing a group of images, I stumble upon some serious NSFW stuff (let's hope no one has been watching me!!!). It was completely pornographic, no two ways about it. Now I know Flickr has filters for Nude/Glamour photography, but I wasn't aware that users were allowed to freely upload pornographic images. Is there a niche for this kind of photography? I mean obviously there is :p but I didn't expect to find it on a photography community website for the same reason I wouldn't expect to find it here...

Discuss.
 
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Eddzz!! said:
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Got any links :D..................... :exit:

For some people though it might just be being used as a file hosting site (like Picasa or Photobucket) or they forgot to make them private
 
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I definitely haven't bookmarked for later...:cool:

rpsmith79 said:
For some people though it might just be being used as a file hosting site (like Picasa or Photobucket) or they forgot to make them private
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Yeah I guess so, but I just didn't think Flickr would have allowed these kind of uploads... I mean, there's not just a couple - there is a whole horde of them! I honestly don't know how I hadn't discovered this before now lol. At the end of the day, Flickr is another social media platform. So if Facebook doesn't allow this kind of content, why would Flickr?
 
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I can't say i've found anything like that on Flickr, but i always get funny looks from my better half whilst browsing 500px sometimes :lol: i'm forced to turn the NSFW filter on to hide any nudes on there :lol:
 
Use the search function on it then and type in any filth you want.
 
Doesn't even have to be filth, search for greedy (at home) sort by interesting I got about 4 pages in before i hit some NSFW images.
 
Eddzz!! said:
So if Facebook doesn't allow this kind of content, why would Flickr?
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Facebook doesn't have a system for restricting the content shown and it's not a primarily photographic site. Flickr is primarily for photography and has a three-level "safe search" system with the stuff you're talking about being filed under the top tier if it's been posted correctly, if not it should get removed or changed to the top level and there's a reporting system for flagging things you think are set to the wrong level.

On Flickr:
Settings > Privacy and Permissions
Scroll down to the bottom and you'll see "Content filters" with "Search settings" under it.
Click edit and you choose to have see only safe content (top option), safe and moderate content (middle option) or safe, moderate and restricted content (bottom option).

When you upload something you set it to one of those three settings (or it goes to your default setting), your photostream also has a setting. You can control the photostream setting and the upload default setting under Privacy and Permissions.
 
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NSFW Right, for the perverse among you, here you are. Some of those in there aren't just Nude & Glamour... You have to be signed in to see them.

DazJW said:
Facebook doesn't have a system for restricting the content shown and it's not a primarily photographic site. Flickr is primarily for photography and has a three-level "safe search" system with the stuff you're talking about being filed under the top tier if it's been posted correctly, if not it should get removed or changed to the top level and there's a reporting system for flagging things you think are set to the wrong level.

On Flickr:
Settings > Privacy and Permissions
Scroll down to the bottom and you'll see "Content filters" with "Search settings" under it.
Click edit and you choose to have see only safe content (top option), safe and moderate content (middle option) or safe, moderate and restricted content (bottom option).

When you upload something you set it to one of those three settings (or it goes to your default setting), your photostream also has a setting. You can control the photostream setting and the upload default setting under Privacy and Permissions.
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I'm not saying that what I've seen has particularly offended me (though it probably would if my girlfriend caught me looking at it :p), I just didn't expect to see those kind of images on Flickr!
 
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"Today I went on the internet and found this.....!"




http://flic.kr/p/dAFH8f - I've seen better baps in the supermarket.
In the bread aisle.
On the shelves!
Jeez you're a dirty, dirty minded bunch.
 
Eddzz!! said:
So I was just mooching about on the internet, flicking between TP and Flickr (you know, a usual day at work ;)). All of a sudden, whilst browsing a group of images, I stumble upon some serious NSFW stuff (let's hope no one has been watching me!!!). It was completely pornographic, no two ways about it. Now I know Flickr has filters for Nude/Glamour photography, but I wasn't aware that users were allowed to freely upload pornographic images. Is there a niche for this kind of photography? I mean obviously there is :p but I didn't expect to find it on a photography community website for the same reason I wouldn't expect to find it here...

Discuss.
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code - Hi my name's Eddzz and I've spent the day looking at porn on the internet at work... I'm worried I've been rumbled and so am quickly creating this thread so that if my work is now monitoring my internet useage they'll see that it was all a big accident and I'm not pervy


;)
 
ajax_andy said:
code - Hi my name's Eddzz and I've spent the day looking at porn on the internet at work... I'm worried I've been rumbled and so am quickly creating this thread so that if my work is now monitoring my internet useage they'll see that it was all a big accident and I'm not pervy


;)
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Lol! I wouldn't even try! They pay me far too much...
 
after looking through the photos in the link I have to say 3 things..

1. Actually, some of the photos are very artistic.
2. Some are plain porn
and
3. This guy has a VERY healthy sex life :)
 
lmgculley said:
after looking through the photos in the link I have to say 3 things..

1. Actually, some of the photos are very artistic.
2. Some are plain porn
and
3. This guy has a VERY healthy sex life :)
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+1 ;)
 
Errr you might want to remove the dodgy link, theres younger menbers on here as well as us over 18's.
 
swanseamale47 said:
Errr you might want to remove the dodgy link, theres younger menbers on here as well as us over 18's.
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While I totally agree with protecting young people from hardcore pornography, if they want to watch it they will, and what's more, they will go and find stuff a LOT harder than what is in that link...
 
Judging by this thread, they'll also find it a lot more easily than some of our over-18 members:D
 
When I clicked on the link I was told the content was above my 'safe search level'.

I figured it was a bit advanced for me, so went back to looking at pictures of cats.
 
We have friends who use flickr to upload all of their BDSM stuff to post out to other people and put on sites they are members of just in the same way we have to have a site to upload pics from onto here.

So you will get people that use it for other reasons than photographers up loading lovely pics of landscapes etc for TP
 
it takes all sort's to make the world go round :thumbs: it's funny one of my photos from flickr regularly gets view from a blog it was featured on that nearly all the other photo's are of nude guys, quite a lot of them are quite well taken art nude type photo's but still, why they'd also feature a photo of the moon taken by me I really don't know :lol:
 
Oh dear, I thought it would be a good idea to click the link. Anything else and I would have been fine, I just think a particular thing should be like a one way street :lol:

Certainly a strange taste...
On what he likes to shoot I mean!
 
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