Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/31/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/29/06, Sherool jamydlan@online.no wrote:
The problem is though that a lot of people are remarkably resistant to taking any notice of instructions and warnings. They just want to upload cool images, and get very upset when we remove and delete them.
Which is why we need to remove the upload link. If they need to hunt around a bit before they can upload images, there's a chance they'll run into the instructions.
Simply making the upload link a link to upload instructions... and asking users to upload by forming a image redlink would actually do a lot to help. A lot of images get uploaded without ever being linked in.. and where an image is used is very helpful in figuring it out its status (for fair use images, at least).
While I like that we're debating ways to encourage more copyright-compliant uploads, I'm not sure about this particular idea. Right now, when I happen across an article with a red link for an image, I know to remove it and/or look for a substitute. Do we want to make people wonder whether they should wait around in case there's an upload forthcoming?
--Michael Snow