Dear Flickr User..
Dear Flickr User Somesai
I know you love Tai Shan. I know he's the cutest, wutest little button panda on the whole surface of the world. I know you love flickr and consider it to be the bestest of the best, I do too, but please for the love of God stop tagging photos of the panda, or screenshots taken from the webcam, with the tag DC. I do not care for the panda. I think the panda would be tasty with a little orange sauce, fried with rice, shiitake mushrooms and green peppers, or maybe with a nice kung pao preparation, but I do not want to see your panda pics cluttering up the DC flickr feed.
kthnxbye.
Tom
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Tagging Ourselves to Death
All Tom Bridge wanted were some photographs of Washington, DC. What he got was a giant panda. This giant panda does happen to be a resident of the National Zoo, and therefore the District of Columbia. But the photos are hardly about DC, so Bridge doe...
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Kung Pao Panda: I think you might have your new computer's name. ;D
Posted by Celsius1414 on February 22, 2006 — 1:54 PM
Hah! That's a good one Robert. But yeah, I think Baby Panda would be way, way better than Old Panda for Kung Pao Panda, the old ones get too gamy.
Now we know the real reason they're going extinct: Tasty.
Yes, I'm going to hell.
Posted by Tom Bridge on February 22, 2006 — 2:40 PM
I've been guilty of this too: tagging "dc" on every little thing as long as I snapped it within our borders, though I stopped doing it for self portraits and cat shots.
Posted by brownpau on February 22, 2006 — 2:45 PM
I would of appreciated if this was bought to my attention instead of the world. Why not send me a message directly? This is a common mistake lots of people make as flickr seperate your tags even if you type it in together. I wanted to put dc pandas as there are pandas in other zoo and it seperated my tag to dc. I did not realize this. One of the main attraction of the DC area does include the pandas so I can imagine lots of other people tagging it with dc as shown here:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/dc/clusters/zoo-panda-nationalzoo/
However, I've changed my tag to dcpanda.
Posted by somesai on February 27, 2006 — 9:50 AM