Malingering’s World

The good news is, Nomar is visible again.

After being convinced by LAist that Moses would wreak havoc upon my soul if I didn’t write up my Flickr perils, I wrote this little silly article on LAist. People started coming out of the woodwork (yay!) and then it showed up on Digg (check out the comments, they’re hilarious).

Whether or not this prompted the response I got from Flickr, I’m not sure, but then I received this email:

Hello Malingering,

First off, we’re very sorry! I’ve gone through and remoderated your photostream as safe (except for those that you’ve moderated yourself).

We owe you an explanation. It seems that your photostream attracts quite a bit of attention from the community, and when this happens you turn up for review by staff again and again. I’m afraid when this happens, we start feeling compelled to “do something”. In your case, it was clearly the wrong thing. As you rightly point out, the photos have been taken in public.

We’ve taken steps to prevent your account being marked restricted for this type of content again. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to respond to this email, and I’ll do my best to address them.

Kind Regards, Michelle

Well, I guess I have one concern. Is it a good policy to feel “compelled” to censor someone as a knee-jerk reaction to people complaining? It’s punish first, correct later? Is that a good idea? I’m not sure. I’ve never been in charge of a big corporation, or any business, and I certainly haven’t paid much attention to PR stuff, so I have no clue.

At least I’m not as bad off as Gail Orenstein who was somehow removed from Flickr altogether, though it appears she’s back. Goody.

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