Horoscope Fish
Senior Member
This has pushed me over the edge: I just gave up on Flickr. I've never really *liked* it but I've used it anyway for some time... Now I'm done.
Time to find another site to host my photos.
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Flickr now is auto tagging my stuff.
- Thread starter Blacktop
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Time to find another site to host my photos.
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BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Again, it's obvious that this is a limited roll-out, hence the ALPHA in yellow next to the Flickr applied tags. That it offers suggestions is one thing, but in that it applies suggested tags to others' images without their approval for others to see, trial or otherwise, is BS. Yahoo is using a huge community to test software that can be rolled out and utilized in lots of profitable ways in exchange for free photosharing (that they exploit in other ways).
I need to get off my ass and get my own site finished so I can blow that joint.
I need to get off my ass and get my own site finished so I can blow that joint.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
My take is if you don't tag your photos, it's sort of a non-issue.
But, if you are the artist and you have taken the time to choose how you want to tag your shot, that also means that you've taken the time to not tag your photos in a certain way. For instance, I'll tell you what the photo is of but I'm not necessarily going to give you style tags - on purpose. So, if Flickr is throwing "Abstract" on my photo because I chose to either do something abstract, or worse yet because it can understand what it is, that's a problem for me. Heck, even if the nail the style, I may not want "Portrait" on something that's obviously a portrait because I do not want a potential customer looking at it and thinking I do portrait photography. Their evaluation of my work can point someone searching for a particular tag to a very bad example of that style within my portfolio - even though it's anything but "bad" for every tag I've assigned - and my reputation suffers because they are trying to "help" me.
If they want to offer the service, make it opt-in for those who want to use it. Otherwise I'm happy to opt out of the service. With extreme prejudice.
Waiting...impatiently, I might add.
Seriously, I hope you will have the time and desire to work on it. 
Same here just appeared today for mine.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Same as everyone else - Beta tags added, new Photostream options. Not in any way happy. Here's an example of the madness:
Photo:
Tags:
Of the tags added, some are out and out wrong, some are redundant, and some I just don't want. Please show me how the hell to turn this off!!
Photo:
Tags:
Of the tags added, some are out and out wrong, some are redundant, and some I just don't want. Please show me how the hell to turn this off!!
sonicbuffalo_RIP
Senior Member
Be glad (for now) that this is BETA. Hopefully it means that they will see the error in their ways and change it back. I don't blame you for being pissed off though.
RocketCowboy
Senior Member
Thanks for the link. Looks like there is no "opt out" choice at this point. I also went back and found a lot of incorrect tagging. Lilly the Rottweiler is pretty pissed. She is not a "cat" !!
There is always an "opt out". It's called using a different service.
Guess Yahoo is catching up with Google on abusing the users of their services.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
The nice thing is that you can delete them. The bitch is that they've tagged everything going back in time. The one saving grace is that I decided not to put my Flickr link on my business card in case I dump them.
I mean how many photos are you going to get when you click on an "outdoor" tag?! It's worthless!!
singlerosa_RIP
Senior Member
See em. Like em. Some of them are kinda silly. I will not opt out.
BackdoorArts
Senior Member
Funny thing is, if you go into your Tags under the '...' menu it doesn't show you their tags. And there's no option anywhere in any setting I can find that allows you to remove their tags.
Umm...I just hovered over their tags and an 'x' showed up within each boxed tag. Then I clicked the x and viola, tag was deleted. Only did it to a couple of my photos so far.
Here is more info from Flickr on it.
https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157652019487118/
sonicbuffalo_RIP
Senior Member
I agree....my picture of a giraffe at the zoo was tagged with "outdoor". What crap!
sonicbuffalo_RIP
Senior Member
@BackdoorHippie.....this sounds promising from Flickr: "What’s next for tags?
We will continue working to constantly improve this feature. Flickr’s tags may evolve as the image recognition technology becomes more accurate and as the algorithm learns to recognize additional concepts. We also want to bring more control to you, so we plan to add tools soon to allow you to batch edit these new tags."
We will continue working to constantly improve this feature. Flickr’s tags may evolve as the image recognition technology becomes more accurate and as the algorithm learns to recognize additional concepts. We also want to bring more control to you, so we plan to add tools soon to allow you to batch edit these new tags."