On 7/29/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
I'm working on something like this. It's already up to ten questions just to decide if an image is under a free license, a non-free license, or is self-created. You can't just ask "do you think we can use it under 'fair use' provisions" -- the answer will always be "yes". The set of questions for determining fair use is going to need to be fairly large.
My presumption was actually to do something like this: 1 Do you think it can be used under fair use? Why? 2 User writes some half-arsed response 3 Image is stored in quarantine 4 Periodically, administrator goes through and checks if any have decent rationales, and deletes the rest
That is, kind of like a police officer dutifully noting down "So, you're an extra terrestrial here to save humanity by removing gold necklaces from "earthlings" necks. That's great, thanks".
I suppose it would be kind of bad faith, but how else to resolve the problem?
Are you offering to do the reviewing? There are over two thousand images uploaded each day, about half of which are uploaded by very new users.
Once the images are filtered appropriately, spend as much time reviewing them as is appropriate. In "problem areas", delete slabs without looking if needed.
Steve