[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Bubble181

Bubble181

Squidleybits said:
The admin who helped me would now like me to re-post the image back to the group. Before I do, do any of you know how to restrict my posts from being shared? Some of my photography groups have turned off sharing all together. I've gone through the privacy settings on Facebook several times but I'm not seeing where this option is.
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Plenty of options to restrict sharing/viewing when you post something on your wall. Once you post it to a group, though, AFAIK it's subject to the group's regulations, and you can't manually change it yourself.
The admins should have options to (dis)allow sharing only within the group, publicly, not at all, etc.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I'm still pretty angry about it this morning. She wrote "Thanks" in the comments and proceeded to share it publicly without my permission.

What sort of an asshole thinks that's acceptable behaviour? I searched the group and she's never contributed any photography, only shared other people's hard work. I'm not sure why the admins would want a leech like that in the group.
 
strawman

strawman

Though you are well integrated with that group it may simply be time to stop participating in that group, or put only very low resolution or heavily watermarked photos there, looking for a better group where the admin makes choices that better align with your needs. Maybe start your own photography page that doesn't allow sharing, put the high res photos there, then the low red ones in the group with a link to your photography page.

In fact you should probably do this anyway, start promoting your own page, control your photos, and only give sample quality in the other groups.
 
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Dave

Dave

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This is only a minor rant due to the fact that we always knew this was going to happen, although it sucks.

This weekend we are moving my mother out of the nursing home she's in. She's been trying to escape (successfully a few times) and they are just not equipped to dealing with dementia patients. They do medical patients well, but they just can't handle someone like my mom any more. So we're moving her to a place called the Hansen House in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They are a nursing home that specializes in memory and dementia patients. They did an assessment on her and decided that on the Reiserg Scale she pegs in at a high 5/low 6. Out of 7. 7 means the disease has progressed so far that it's ready to take her. As it stands, she'll go to the high functioning side (4's & 5's) but they may need to move her to the side with more care soon.

I'm really torn about this. She's already showing signs that are explained in the stage 6 symptoms. She didn't recognize me the last time we were there and she's already showing other (more TMI type things) that are firmly in the stage 6. I hate moving her again because she doesn't know what the fuck is going on and every time we leave it's like we're abandoning her all over again. I fucking hate this disease.

https://www.dementiacarecentral.com/aboutdementia/facts/stages/
 
fade

fade

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The pop-up Spirit of Halloween set up a sign and storefront here in late July. That's the earliest I've ever seen one. Not sure if it's open yet, though. If it is, can't tell from the parking lot. No one is there.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

fade said:
The pop-up Spirit of Halloween set up a sign and storefront here in late July. That's the earliest I've ever seen one. Not sure if it's open yet, though. If it is, can't tell from the parking lot. No one is there.
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Exact same thing here. It's definitely not open yet though.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

DarkAudit said:
This appears to be another case where YOU ARE BEING ABUSED.
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I'm not being abused in this situation because I shut that shit down within an hour of it happening. I reported her to Facebook for using my intellectual property without permission, I removed my original post so that she had nothing to share on her wall any more and I blocked her so she can't steal from/leech off of me ever again.

I don't mess around with my pictures. I worked really hard to learn how to photograph the Milky Way and I'm not letting some bitch steal my hard work.

I discussed the issue with the group admin and he thought that I should consider it a compliment and didn't understand why I wasn't happy. He thought I was being really harsh on the person who did it. He can think that if he likes. It wasn't his image that was taken. Once I had corrected the situation, he wanted me to re-post the picture to the group, but I have refused until he tightens the security of the group or restricts it to photographers only. When the group started, he handpicked a small group of astrophotographers from a few local groups and it was awesome. I didn't post for an extended period when I wasn't well so I didn't notice that the group grew to over 1,200 people in that time. There are still only a handful of good photographers, but now there are a ton of other members there that aren't contributing any images. Most of them are cool people who enjoy our images and wouldn't steal them, but there are a bunch of leeches there who take without asking and have ruined the group for me. I certainly won't be sharing any more images there.

If they're not trying to steal my images, they're asking really stupid questions about how to take the images. Did you use a tripod? Seriously??? I try to be patient and answer questions nicely, but there are only so many times I can answer the very same question in the same picture's comments. Asking it slightly differently is not going to change the answer or magically make my picture be taken with different gear.

In fact, I may have to go so far as to make a gigantically ugly, full page sized watermark for every picture I share on Facebook going forward. What's wrong with these people?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Squidleybits said:
I may have to go so far as to make a gigantically ugly, full page sized watermark for every picture I share on Facebook going forward. What's wrong with these people?
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If you are thinking about software to watermark your images, you're looking for "robust" watermarking. Watermarking that is categorized as "robust" can survive being enlarged/shrunk/blurred/etc. Of course, if you just want to superimpose a giant transparent font or something, that'll work too. :)

--Patrick
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

So I tried signing up for a SCENE Visa credit card recently. Partly for the 2500 Swagbucks through that site, and partly for the SCENE points for the theaters.

I get an e-mail for my pre-approval of my application and it asks me to follow a link to submit proof of employment. Cool, no problem.

Then the confirmation number they provided doesn't work. "We cannot locate your application. Please re-enter the information and try again."

All right. There's a "Contact Us" link above and hey, there's a phone number.

Oh. Apparently the agent can't help me because I made an online application. So I need to wait until Monday to call THAT separate number. Then why the fuck was the other number an option at all?

I ranted about it on Twitter, tagging ScotiaBank. And they replied, asking me to direct message them. They told me the same shit.

So forget it. This kind of bullshit runaround isn't worth it.
 
Emrys

Emrys

In a lesser whine, my internet service where I live (in the middle of nowhere) has gotten so erratic that I'm probably going to cancel my service. I spend most of my time at work anyway this time of year and the internet here is fantastic!
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

sixpackshaker said:
...and the fucking difference?
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Hey, we don't know why seawater worked. Was it the salt content? Are plankton like germs to them? I don't know if they go into the exact mechanism by which seawater hurts them in the movie, but if it's something other than just the pure salt content, then that's something you are NOT going to want to discover after a triffid has already started bearing down on you. More science is needed!

--Patrick
 
fade

fade

Staff member
All these aliens allergic to the thing covering 70% of the Earth's surface really need to do better research.
 
Gruebeard

Gruebeard

fade said:
All these aliens allergic to the thing covering 70% of the Earth's surface really need to do better research.
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Just want to point out that triffids were a Russian invention, the product of genetic engineering. Well, in the book.

I never did see the schlocky movie with this "sea/saltwater hose" thing. Maybe they were aliens in that abomination.
 
David

David

Squidleybits said:
I often share some of my Astrophotography images in a few local groups on Facebook. If people ask if they can share them, I usually say yes. With "ask" being the key word. I shared one recently and this person liked it, then commented "Thanks" and shared it publicly on their page! Publicly!! Not ok. I contacted the group admin and at first I don't think he understood why I was upset. He told me that I should take it as a compliment that someone should find my images good enough to share. I said no....I take it as theft that someone shared my image without permission. He is friends with the person and said that they aren't a bad person and that their wall is full of shared things that other people created/posted. That only made it worse for me. I explained that I am very unwell and that I only get out to take pictures very rarely now and that I don't like people taking without asking. I thought it was pretty ballsy of her to thank me and take it like that. It annoys me that people are let into photography groups like this one who never share photos and are only there to leech.

I think that he understood then or at least said that he did. He showed me how to report it to Facebook and sadly, my original post had to be deleted out of the group. The good news is that her post is now gone because there is nothing left to share. I also blocked her so she can't share anything else I post or worse - steal a copy of the image.

The admin who helped me would now like me to re-post the image back to the group. Before I do, do any of you know how to restrict my posts from being shared? Some of my photography groups have turned off sharing all together. I've gone through the privacy settings on Facebook several times but I'm not seeing where this option is.
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Sounds like a losing battle with the nature of the platform, tbh. No setting on facebook will stop someone from just downloading your image and reuploading on their own page where you'll never get any kind of notification that they shared it. Have you considered watermarking your images? At the very least, a photo thief would be also sharing exactly where they sourced it from.
 
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