Slight departure. Found this in the comments on Flickr (via Waxy). Apparently Flickr had a “Pirate Day” or something where they temporarily changed their logo. Who cares? A whole shower of bleating idiots, that’s who.
I too thought that the site had been hacked and feared for the safety of my account and photos.
What are Flickr up to?
I really hate it when websites change their logo to something stupid like this, stupid hacker-like childish stunts reduce confidence in a site and are less likely to make me want to continue with Flickr.
From reading this thread, I gather that the pirate flag is deliberate by Flickr so i am glad it is not the result of hackers.
But does it mean that Flickr are using pirate software? Or they trying to encourage software pirates? Or photo pirates (i.e. people who steal other people’s photos to pass off as their own on Flickr)?
king_david_uk
Online “communities” make me sad.
One day, David, something really bad may happen to you. My advice would be to conserve a little more of your emotional reserves for such a day, rather than pissing your knickers about a website changing its logo.
So none of these people hovered over the logo which had title text saying “It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day”
Perhaps they should just rename the site Spackr to rub it in a bit.
some people should be made to do a test before they’re allowed to use internets
I don’t know what aspect of that whole thing scares me more - the “zomg I thought my computer had been hacked” side, or the “you’re glorifying pirates and rapists and murderers” side. Either way, it’s a bit special…
Ye gods. Do these people have someone employed to remind them to breath?