Crying out justice, but seeking out triumphs (iwanttobeasleep) wrote in

otf_wank,
@ 2007-01-06 00:43:00

Flickr is a website where people share photos of themselves, often with complete strangers.

Nachismo is a photo-sharing member who comes with a harrowing tale. Apparently, someone else on Flickr (Whitman) had some pictures of his daughter posted on a pedophilic site (the original story has been taken down, so no further details). So she creates a petition to make Flickr stop the pedophiles from viewing photos of children on the site. Throughout the comments there is a lot of support, and people calling for the balls of pedophiles on a silver platter.

Flickr should be a safe website for friends to meet new friends and to share pictures: Flickr should not be a playground for pedophiles.

There's also: It's okay to spam and if you don't like it, you're with the pedophiles!

And: I'm sad that my paranoia keeps me from showing pictures of my kids to complete strangers.

Whitman comes in to say that: Flickr accounts should be verifiable. Like Paypal. Even the free ones.

Not to mention: They seem to have a big problem with spamming.

And this last one, because no wank report is complete with someone bringing logic in a tl;dr style.

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brown_betty
2007-01-06 10:15 pm UTC (link)

Lemon Frosted says:

What seems to be the problem here is that there are a lot of people who are categorically incapable of accepting the risks inherently associated with the internet, and are inventing complex fantasy worlds in order to cope with that.

But why can't there be a world where there's some sort of anti-murder device? I think the police should do something about that. It would be quite simple, perhaps a flying monkey would follow everyone around and then if they saw someone with a knife or a gun pointed at their person, attack them. I don't know how exactly, I'm not a flying-monky-ologist, I leave these details to experts.

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	darkeyes 2007-01-07 12:15 am UTC (link)
	I don't know how exactly, I'm not a flying-monky-ologist, I leave these details to experts. Maybe they can implement some form of flying-monkey-anti-murder script? repost due to typo (Reply to this)(Parent)

GIP (sort of)

rhrsoulmates
2007-01-07 02:16 am UTC (link)

While the anti-murder idea is very noble since you would feel much safer knowing a flying monkey will swoop down and come to your rescue should you need it (like Superman in a way), when you crunch the numbers, one is far more likely to encounter someone exhibiting Teh Stoopid than find themselves face-to-face with a murderer.

The monkeys could be trained to slap someone upside the head if they even look as if they're going to do or say something stupid. Just throwing the idea out there. Like you said, we'll leave the details to the experts.

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	tangentialone 2007-01-07 02:44 am UTC (link)
	No, no, obviously it should be flying squirrels. Monkeys can't fly! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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