On 6/21/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Flickr must do something to filter it out. or maybe just having a community orientation is enough to discourage it.
Too many tags knocks down your "interestingness" ranking and reduces your chances of being seen, as does submitting to too many groups. That and social pressure seems to do the trick.
What bugs me in Flickr is people who are too lazy to tag their pictures individually and tag a whole uploaded set - sometimes hundreds of pictures - with every tag that's valid for at least one image in it. So you'll get a whole set of family photos that are tagged 'train' because there's a train in one of them. And these people get really aggressive if you politely ask them not to do that. I'm not sure what the point is of what they're doing, either. If they're not tagging accurately, I can't see how it's even useful for them. It's like they're tagging as a ritual devoid of meaning.
-Matt