Group: Gulls (Larinae)

An interesting discussion. The spam I really and utterly detest is the kind where one person leaves many many comments, all for different groups or for no groups at all as I have seen certain people split up a comment into four, five, six separate comments: one comment for each sentence. I loath that. But whatever form the multi comments take, I hate it so much that I can't bear to be connected with people who's comment streams are filled with it, even though they themselves do not spam.

When I came here last year May I made 50 contacts very quickly and was very active for a while and sure enough I had more comments than ever before on flickr. Well, over the past few months I have removed, one after another, a great deal of those contacts for the sole reason that scrolling down their spam filled pages is torture for me. It really is.

Of course my view count has plummeted, as have the numbers of comments, but luckily I have never been interested one iota in statistics so that's quite okay.

I'm also happy to have found some people who detest spam as much as I do. That is really nice and it makes the little island I feel I have retreated to, just a little bit bigger. :)

The endless scrolling past awards on flicker drove me nuts as well. I had a couple of contacts over there that I dreaded visiting and made a point to know when they usually uploaded something new so I could get a comment in fast and run before all the flashy signs gave me a siezure. Never seen a comment broken up into multiple comments before. That just sounds like someone desperate for attention or outright crazy.

I arrived last May as well and built up a big contact list, but have also pared it down. When someone made me a contact I would naturally reciprocate but then I would notice that their stream consisted mostly of flowers or architecture or macros...things I can appreciate for their beauty, but not really my cup of tea right now or just not a form of photography that I currently have an interest in. I'm sure people visit me and see cats & gulls and don't return...to each their own taste.

I never use comment codes or links in comments I post, but you may find a few on mine. Don't worry, I will never be one of those endlessly scrolling award seekers. I'm just here to view/share and have fun.