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Lincoln
1 Oct 2008, 3:57pm
Shadowing Flickr's community manager (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/29/onthejob.DTL) touches home for several of our staff members, I'm sure (via Waxy (http://waxy.org/links/)).... Continue reading (http://icrontic.com/ticker/flickr-communitys-moderator)
Buddy J
1 Oct 2008, 4:52pm
Indeed, for all its color, the site is governed by gray. Take, for example, what I call the penis quandary, endemic to any operation like this: A photo of a penis will be flagged on Flickr as offensive and relegated to the site's version of an adults-only zone. But what about a photo of the word "penis"? What about a cloud that looks like a penis? What about a penis on a Greek statue?
I've always said that if the penis photo is color, it's pornography; if it's black and white, it's art.
So if I desaturate "Debbie Does Dallas," it's art? SWEET!
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