Jeneane Sessum on Flickr, Please Terminate Me

Jeneane is perturbed by the attitude of Flickr’s community guidelines, and suggest that big company ateriosclerosis has set in, and the playful, open spirit of Ludicorp has been erased by Yahoo lawyerly types [Full disclosure: Jeneane admits that she is working for bubbleshare, a contending photo service]:

I would be honored if you would terminate me.

and before I go, one other thing you never say to your Valued Users is “report you to authorities” — that is a sticky area for you I would think - and I am thinking reading this thinking that you hired an intern to write these guidelines or that perhaps you have lost your fucking minds.

don’t talk about my behavior and conduct - what am i like a 9-yr-old and you’re my baby sitter, flickr?

now i will say, though I heart stewart and caterina, i am now helping bubbleshare spread the photo-sharing love. so you can think i’m biased, but i really don’t think so because i was on flickr before most people were on, and i think flickr does different things than the BS I heart, like for one we make fun of ourselves, not the people who use BS, and number 2 we don’t use words like “authorities” and “conduct” and “genitalia.” At least i haven’t. At least not outside of casual skype calls w/ other bloggers. ha ha.

We don’t want these parameters to be a downer and we want everyone to have a good time. If you don’t feel that you can abide by our Community Guidelines as outlined above, maybe Flickr isn’t for you. Plainly speaking, if you don’t want to abide by our TOS and these Guidelines, don’t let the door hit you on your way out!

flickr that’s just not funny.

terminate me.

Sounds like I have to rekindle the Operating Manual for Social Tools project, so that we, the users, can tell the services how they should operate if they want to retain our good will.

[Update: Euen Semple chimes in:

First I have Mena Trott telling me to be more civil and now I have the guys at Flickr telling to be ashamed of the human body.

DON’T
Upload photos that include frontal nudity, genitalia or anything else that your bathing suit should cover in public areas of Flickr If you do we’ll make your photostream private and remind you of this Guideline. If you don’t heed our warning and continue to make similar content public, we’ll terminate your account without warning. This applies to your Buddy Icon as well.