Comments on: On Joining The Male Butt-Crack Flickr Group

By: outbreak » The little bumps of the first time user (written on July 3rd, 2006 by Marko Mrdjenovic)

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By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We’ll I’d rather join the BCrackG than the BHoleG. Qualification for the latter is probably by invite only. Why would anyone want that picture anyway? Isn’t that what photoshop (or the gimp) was invented for?

By: KJC

KJC — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

my new favorite unusual Flickr group: Unintentionally Scary Clowns www.flickr.com/groups/clowns/pool/

By: Shavonne

Shavonne — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just send the picture to the administrator of the group telling her the picture can be posted to the group providing she gives proper attribution to you. That way you won’t have to join the group but your picture could still be submitted.

By: will

will — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As long as that’s not the pink taco town, I think we are OK.

By: dustin

dustin — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i run the taco town group on flickr..dont look if youre hungry. http://flickr.com/groups/93851968@N00/

By: Faruk Ateş

Faruk Ateş — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh c’mon Mike, you’re not fooling anyone. We all know of your fetish with male butt-cracks.

By: Andy R.

Andy R. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I got the same butt-crack photo request, but I had the opposite reaction. "You mean there is a group for pictures of butt cracks and I've been invited to join?!" Granted, my photo was from a medical procedure (donating bone marrow) so it's one of those instances when I can be proud of having my crack on display. Or not... The picture is here: http://flickr.com/photos/andydr/45535959/ [If your workplace is not a safe place to view the male butt crack, then this picture is not safe for work.]

By: Seth Thomas Rasmussen

Seth Thomas Rasmussen — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“It amazes me that people bother to set up such obscure groups that few people are going to want to join anyway.”

Stick with the herd, and you can’t go wrong!

By: Ian Lloyd

Ian Lloyd — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am forever getting this type of request. Recent ones include:

It amazes me that people bother to set up such obscure groups that few people are going to want to join anyway. Most of the time the photos that people comment on in this way are random snaps that you take and do not suggest that you have any great passion for the topic, but it doesn't seem to stop them asking. Now if I had a portfolio consisting of *hundreds* of matching car-trailer combos, or pages and pages of public fibreglass art, well then I could see why they might want me to join their group :-)

By: Nick Douglas

Nick Douglas — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On the upside, that would start my tag cluster, “Nick Douglas” and “Butt-crack.”

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The way I think the process should work:

1) Susan clicks on a dropdown that says “Add photo to Male Butt Crack group”.
2) When she trys to add it, you get an email saying “Susan would like to add your photo to the Male Butt Crack group. Is that OK?” If you approve, the photo is added. Done.

By: julian

julian — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flickr is actually set up for this, join said group, add the photo, quit the group, bask in the glow of having your photo be a part of the Male Butt-Crack Group but not still being a member of said group.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark and TC: I’m not sure Zeldman overreacted at all when you consider the circumstances. People don’t react to what “happened”. They react to what they *think* happened. It was Flickr’s fault that what *appeared* to happen didn’t actually happen. Obviously, kudos to them for not actually deleting photos when an account expires, but they should also not even give the *appearance* that this has happened… thus avoiding the confusion.

When Zeldman realized what happened, he was fine with the situation, but he rightfully pointed out that the user experience could be improved with better communication.

By: Seth Thomas Rasmussen

Seth Thomas Rasmussen — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You’re male, you have a butt crack(I assume*).. I fail to see the problem here.

* assume! EL-OH-EL