Comments on: Hilarious Conversation Between Member and Staff Member: I’m a Jerk and I’m Also Wrong

By: My Epic, Unneccesarily Detailed Recap of South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) 2009 - ManagingCommunities.com

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:13:50 +0000

[...] and how we’ve defended and supported the Flickr Community Guidelines time and time again. I actually wrote about this and a hilarious conversation where someone attacked one of my staff memb…. She appreciated it and was very nice. I had also wanted to meet up with Mario, but we didn’t [...]

By: My Epic, Unneccesarily Detailed Recap of South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) 2009 » Patrick O’Keefe

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:56:29 +0000

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:58:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Eelke.

Basically. Well, in all, posting the hotlinked images, having them removed, being warned, posting it again and referencing the deletion, having that removed and then being very rude and disrespectful to my staff member. I don’t have a lot of toleration for people who talk to my staff like this.

By: Eelke

Eelke — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:40:50 +0000

So, was this behaviour alone enough to ban him, or did other nasty stuff follow?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:13:57 +0000

hehe. It’s a unique picture, isn’t it? ;)

Patrick

By: Martin Reed

Martin Reed — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:02:15 +0000

Why on earth did you use that photo as an example in your post? Almost put me off my cup of tea, that did!

- Martin

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:44:47 +0000

Definitely. :)

Thanks for the comments, Rafael.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:04:10 +0000

I guess the guy also didn’t understand that “downloading the pictures from google to his computer” does not constitute acquiring ownership of the photos. That’s a whole other can of worms though.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:02:47 +0000

That is funny. I wonder why he didn’t just use photobucket or some other host