365 Days / Discuss

chrismaverick    says:

Short Form: This group is now set to Moderate:

Long Form: For those of you who don't know the history of the issue, back a couple weeks ago, when Flickr introduced video, they also quietly introduced Group moderation levels (restricted, moderate and safe). While this seemed like a good idea on the surface, the net effect of implementation screwed things up on some level or another for a great majority of the admins on flickr. Simply put, we were forced to choose between allowing under 18 year old members and German, Korean, Hong Kong and Singapore members or allowing adult content (essentially artistic nudes). So as not to hamper the creativity of our longstanding members, we chose the latter and as a side effect, the group was not available at all to those not signed into Flickr. But at least it didn't hamper the experience of anyone who had been with the group before the change (in fact, under 18 year olds and Germans were not kicked out)

I spent a great deal of my time the last couple weeks pleading with the Flickr staff, along with several other group admins, trying to get them to implement a solution.

That solution came today.

As of now, Germans and under 18 year old members can see Moderate groups but still can't see Restricted ones. It's a compromise, but I think its one we can probably live with. I believe the group is still inaccessible to Korean, Hong Kong and Singapore members, but there's nothing I can really do about that (and I have no way of testing it, if someone from one of those countries has a spare account, I'd love to have you test it and let me know. I don't advise leaving the group to test as I can't guarantee you'll be able to get back in).

I chose Moderate instead of Restricted

The definitions of Moderate and Restricted are still up in the air, unfortunately. I've been personally complaining to flickr as loud as anyone that this needs to be fixed. But for now, I recommend just TRYING to use your best judgement. I know that's hard. If you post a nude to the group especially, please mark it at least moderate. I'm HOPING that whenever flickr verifies the moderation level settings will be ok still. But I have no way of knowing that for sure. Still, I ask that everyone at least try to be as safe as possible just like always and hope that if we do our best to behave, nothing else bad happens.

Thanks to everyone once more for continuing to make this the best group on Flickr.

-Mav
Posted at 6:36PM, 22 April 2008 PST ( permalink )