On 02/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
We allow fair-use images. We allow them. That's my position.
Well, yes, we do ...
Running bots to tag improperly tagged images (11,000 in two days) and then asking admins to run through with meat cleavers and weed-whackers, was incredibly irresponsible. Now we have to go back, and reload many images improperly deleted because admins were given an impossible task.
Despite me repeatedly requesting you do so, you've yet to name even one case of such, let alone many. Let alone one (or many) that were somehow irrecoverable due to admins going through with meat cleavers and weed-whackers.
I didn't bring this issue up. It was and is a serious problem. Some corrections have been made. I don't think however we've seen the end of it. And the insistence that there isn't a problem, doesn't make it go away.
I'm still utterly unconvinced it's more than a public relations problem with BetacommandBot's presentation, problems that Betacommand has in fact been addressing. Because, you know, the bot really isn't doing anything that's actually contrary to the wording *or* the spirit of the non-free images policy.
- d.