Comments on: Flickr Tricks-of-the-Trade

Flickr Tricks-of-the-Trade

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:36:51 -0800

I recalled a few of the Flickrazzi's who post the "how-to's" of their daily lives. For example, 7-how-7 works for a production company that produces blow-up dolls for the ~~entertainment~~ film and commercial industry (via BoingBoing today), underbunny works as a mortician, rickenbacker documents his life in fast food, and then there's a variety of active duty military folk who are documenting the mundane "over there", like ob1left, nevadog, At Ease, Doc Torres, enlisted cowboy, Nukeit1, JeffG, Luodanli, and the homsar. But if blogging at work can be bad, than I'm sure taking photos at work and sharing them with the interweb HAS to be worse.

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:43:30 -0800

Tsk Tsk. Self-link = banination.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:46:41 -0800

Too bad, too. It was a great idea for a post.

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:49:41 -0800

Negative ghostrider. Self link is referential and part of the story. If the mod-gods disagree, take it out. Don't ruin my trifecta.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:51:37 -0800

.....some very weird formatting going on too, this post has been cursed! Oh no!

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:52:25 -0800

Self link is referential and part of the story. BZZT! Incorrect! You've been here 6 months, you should know better.

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:53:07 -0800

Yeah, whatsupwitdat. It did that through preview, too.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:58:17 -0800

You somehow managed to close the div, resulting in the odd formatting. I assume that will be fixed when the post is deleted for self-linking.

By: bshort

bshort — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:07:06 -0800

Self-link = badness. You should know better.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:08:14 -0800

The only thing worse than reading books on dead bodies is thinking that pictures from an undertaker are the awesomest thing since sliced awesome.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:31:34 -0800

rzklkng: "Self link is referential and part of the story. If the mod-gods disagree, take it out. Don't ruin my trifecta." Come on, you have to be kidding. Seriously, it's like punching a baby. "No, but it was an integral part of what I was saying! Get it?" Not gonna fly. Good post, but you ruined it. Personally, I hope you don't get banned for it, but, then again, I've had lots of great OMG I BLOGGED entries I coulda linked to and built a FPP around.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:34:59 -0800

Some people just don't know how to read. So... anybody here like pancakes?

By: the_bone

the_bone — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:36:20 -0800

What did you have for breakfast, languagehat?

By: panoptican

panoptican — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:42:01 -0800

Maybe it's just me but this post still shows up even though directly below it, Greasmonkey tells me it's a deleted post...

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:25:00 -0800

I think this is a good post and I'm sorry everyone above me only concentrated on the one self-link you used to put the post in context, even if it wasn't absolutely necessary. But I guess that's what people do here. Everyone point and laugh at the guy who broke the rules! Much easier than tagging it and moving on. Hopefully only the one link will be deleted, and not the post.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:31:35 -0800

it's not the end of the world.

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:38:28 -0800

ratz: why did you just copy and paste your blog entry to metafilter?

By: brownpau

brownpau — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:42:45 -0800

The entire blog entry.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:42:53 -0800

...I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:59:45 -0800

Did I mention that I have one of those new-fangled blog thingies?

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:10:37 -0800

Stynxno, it's actually the other way around.

By: Hands of Manos

Hands of Manos — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:11:56 -0800

fixedgear, tell me moreONEONEONEONE!ONEONEONE

By: euphorb

euphorb — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:09 -0800

I love people that go around thinking that rules don't apply to them.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:46:47 -0800

Pretty girl young man old man man with a blog, two people in love, the rules do not apply....

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:11:39 -0800

panoptican: "Maybe it's just me but this post still shows up even though directly below it, Greasmonkey tells me it's a deleted post..." The aforementioned formatting weirdness confused the greasemonkey script. (How many people really use that thing?)

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:12:43 -0800

Note to the MeFi vigilantes, the mods have spoken. Move along...

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:28:22 -0800

the mods have spoken For future reference, there is only one mod. He owns the site.

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:01:33 -0800

Thanks. I know that. I assumed Matt has other obligations...I emailed him about pruning the first part. Thanks for flexing your eMuscles, though. Your point is taken.

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:17:08 -0800

Okay, now that this whole thing got seriously derailed... how about some actual discussion of the content? : Meh.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:37:42 -0800

Would it have been acceptable to post the offending link in a comment, explaining it as a contextual self referential link? Or just put a [self-link] next to it? Bannination seem harsh...

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:22:43 -0800

self-linking in a comment is *much* more appropriate, but only when it contributes directly to the discussion, and typically when it's not your thread to begin with. Rule of thumb - if you're trying to promote yourself or could be seen as promoting yourself, don't do it.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:34:26 -0800

Bannination seem harsh The way I see it, when the post-a-link page warns you so utterly clearly against self-linking, banination is required more for terminal stupidity and/or arrogance than the actual self-link.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:04:10 -0800

Yeah, and he hasn't even shown any remorse, just whines and babbles about "vigilantes" and "mods." String him up, say I. You do the crime, you do the time.

By: fillsthepews

fillsthepews — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:14:43 -0800

The undertaking photos were really amazing. Thank you for posting them.

By: rzklkng

rzklkng — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 05:50:03 -0800

I humbly submit myself to the flogging by the digerati, and personally offer my heartfelt and most sincere regrets to you, languagehat, as well as the other offendees. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, do you think employers should welcome this or crack down?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:42:46 -0800

I think employers should absolutely crack down on self-linking.