I myself have had any problem with spam, but all the comments that I have posted with images, in my flickr or in any friend flickr, are simply gone. The information is lost, and even if I could get back the comments and have the opportunity to change the hosting of the image, I wouldn't do it, because: a I simply don't have the time to do it b Even if I had the time, I wouldn't do it because nobody can assure me that the service I choose will not be blocked.
Photobucket, picoodle, picoogle, funpic Yes, I could create another flickr account, but I would need another yahoo id, isn't it? Too annoying. And I point again to "a ". A better solution would be indeed to block spammer accounts, or, at least, let each user decide if they want ImageShack images on their comments or not.
I don't think that the staff wants to punish anyone, like it was said before in this thread. But the fact is that this solution is annoying a lot of legitimate users, even those that have not been annoyed by the spammers, so the only loser here is the end user. I have used Flickr for some years and I have had nothing serious to complain about until now :P In fact I liked the service so much that I was about to buy a pro account I'm a student and it's very rare for me to buy something like this Posted ages ago.
RazZziel , I completely agree! Blocking problem sites isn't unusual. And as we can see its a very effective solution. Plenty of other forum sites block access to domains that are used by spammers. It's been said above that you don't need an account to use imageshack. So there's no recourse for people who are receiving spam, unlike an account-based site where I can complain about an individual and the host can check and see if they are abusing the service.
This is probably why spammers like it. So the first step in finding another site might be to find one that is account-based so that the site can limit spammers internally by shutting down their account. Blaming Flickr because ImageShack doesn't have a means for responding to abusive users is missing the point. Blocking, ok, maybe. But deleting all old comments that contains links to a site only because spammer used the same site?
Why is flickr throwing out the baby with the bath water, again and again? And again no information about the actions until someone finds out and asks. I can't believe it. Ridiculous, to suggest to use some other service. When some spammer chooses to use that service in the far future, flickr would again delete all comments users made until then, right? But IF the comment is spam that would leave the spam there and just strip the link.
And then everyone would complain about spam. A better question for Flickr Staff would be why if Spammers can be dealt with at the Flickr Account level, and their comments removed, there's a need to block specific hosts at all? But I suspect the answer is that an ounce of deterrent is worth a pound of "Why am I getting so much spam?!?! I also suspect it's not a single spammer who used the site but a large number, because as discussed ImageShack is designed so it can be easily used for spam.
I explained how to go about choosing another service - find one that is account based and doesn't have a reputation for use by spammers as ImageShack does. Find something that will meet your needs, and if embedding in Flickr comments is one of the requirements, choose accordingly.
It's not as though ImageShack or another non-account service is the only option out there. I think the subject is being missed.
If it becomes hard for spammers to post images, they will post text-based spam, with links, and if flickr blocks URLs from comments, like Youtube does and I hate it , spammers will simply deform the URLs so that they are not catched by the filter like I do on Youtube when I want to put a link to an interesting page, related with the video This have happened me on my own videos, and it's ridiculous, so I don't think it's a good model to follow.
It pushes normal users to use spammmish techniques to bypass filters, and spammers' imagination is unlimited. Until comments are blocked at all for all users. I think the best tool that Flickr owns here is that, an anonymous user can't post any comment, and it's even configurable which kind of users can do it. The user can even have a "black list" with undesired users. Using this right, we could stop all kinds of spam, and even all kinds of undesired users annoyers, dumb teenagers insulting us for some reason, etc Blocking ImageShack images to prevent spam is like trying to put out a fire trowing water to the top of the flame, instead of the base.
Heh, I think even the people threaten by the fire is getting more wet than the flame itself. Sorry if this was a bit messy, my english is rather clumsy Posted ages ago. With this "censorship" debacle of recent, one should think that flickr would be a little bit more careful with that trigger-finger on the delete button.
At least for a couple of days. Obviously not. Obviously there is not the slightest bit of doubt involved, when someone somewhere sees some "greater benefit for all". And not the slightest bit of doubt whether it might be a better option to inform the affected user instead of letting him find out the hard way.
I give up. Just curious - any idea on how much longer my comments the ones I made on my own profile are going to be blocked? It's been a little over two weeks now, and I was just wondering how much longer it's going to be. I'd love to know what's the state of the problem too. Only now I know why one comment has screenshot from imageshack is gone! I thought the person who commented deleted it! I also noticed one comment with against flickr sensor image is gone. Just so you know, the comments and images aren't gone, they're just being blocked because spammers were using Imageshack.
Once Flickr unblocks the images, the comments will be back. Hopefully sooner than later I don't want to come off as 'demanding' or 'whiny' like some of the other posters in the help forum, but if an admin could respond as to when my own comments on my own profile will become unblocked, it'd be much appreciated Any idea when my comments on my own page will become unblocked?
It's been six weeks since an admin posted in here, and I was just hoping to get a idea of when I could edit them. Hum, it seems that the problem is fixed; at least I can see the images in my comments posted on my page.
Thank you again for the suggestion. This was already set to Auto Detect. Since my last reply I even went to Imageshack and opened an account. I can upload to their site but cannot see the image after uploading. I think the problem must be in Windows 7 somewhere. It just makes no sense!!! Until a few weeks ago, I could see the images just fine. Since Chrome won't show them either, I doubt it is a browser problem don't you??
As the issue occurs on both the browsers, i. It could probably be an issue with the security in the connection firewall or with the operating system. Therefore, we need to work systematically, eliminating all the probable causes. Here, I would suggest you to create a new user account and check, if the problem persists in the new account. To create a new user account, you can refer to the following article.
Hope this information is helpful. Thank you Anshul for this suggestion. Sorry it took so long to reply. I did create a new user account on the computer and the results are the same.
I have tried everything I know to try. Any other suggestions are welcome. I would suggest you to try changing the hardware acceleration options on the Internet Explorer and check if this helps. You may follow the steps below to change the hardware acceleration options. I do appreciate the help. I did try this just now and it did not solve the problem.
I didn't much think it would as Chrome gives the same problem if you recall The problem simply must be in my mind in Windows 7 somewhere. Norton looked into it for me Community Bot 1. James Donnelly James Donnelly 6, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. ImageShack is not holding up and is desparate to make money by any means possible. Looks like a failing business A more radical solution would be to block all image hosts other than the SE imgur account.
MadScientist if this is done it should only be done from this time onwards since it will needlessly break existing posts with good images. Motti Well force changing it in an edit? Motti That is part of my old feature request, it doesn't disallow them retroactively. Motti Is there any precedent of incentivising users to fix a mass of content?
In this case ideally users could edit a mass of posts with soon to be disallowed links and reupload the image to the StackExchange hosting instead. Some of those are already broken, some not yet; a few are false positives where someone already fixed the images, but left the original URL in the alt text.
IlmariKaronen I think that site search url:imageshack is preferable, because it avoids the already-fixed posts, and also because some posts by low-reputation users have non-embedded links due to new user restriction. Of course, some posts may have both. So both of those are useful tools for finding posts to fix, but neither one is sufficient alone. Gone are the good ol' days of "image not found" or whatever they used to show instead.
Good for Imageshack on coming up with another source of revenue, I guess, but we're gonna be blocking this. We're currently investigating options - may end up just blacklisting imageshack outright.
Not sure if there's a way to retrieve these images and upload them to our image host or something, but we can at least stop the proverbial bleeding. AnnaLear Would there be much notice of this decision happening?
I'm trying to reupload some still existing ones to SO's own hosting so ideally I could catch more before ImageShack gets blacklisted assuming it does. IlmariKaronen Wouldn't it become hard to search them if they were mass edited out though? Unless they were somehow tagged as previously containing a link. I have reached out to ImageShack to see if we can get some cooperation between us and them.
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