Correct me if i'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge this was mostly spontaneous during the hackathon? If it was social media team then it wad a job well done, but that ix not how i perceived it.

Lodewijk

On Aug 11, 2014 12:07 AM, "Joseph Fox" <josephfoxwiki@gmail.com> wrote:

I’ll agree with that, Tom. It strikes me as the social media team jumping at a chance to go viral - which in fairness is sort of their job. It sucks that these kinds of roles can be as unintentionally dickish as in this case.

Joe

On 11 August 2014 at 12:01:38 am, Tom Morris (tom@tommorris.org) wrote:

Thomas Morton wrote:
> I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing it in the
> photographers face.
>
> Its fine to take a stand on a point of copyright.
>
> But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we want
> to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather than
> trollish.
>

Agreed. It is rather tacky, juvenile and slightly unpleasant. Be
magnanimous in victory and all that. It'd be nice to know who thought
"take a photo with the monkey selfie" was a useful and productive piece
of free culture activism. Because it just makes us look like mean jerks.

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