Just Rolling With It

18/02/2023

If you are experiencing odd spikes of spambot activities, feel free to share your experience in the replies!! Here's another post with testimonies of others who's going through the same stuff.

I've reported up to 100 bot accounts each day for the past 3 days after making the help me make soup poll... Here are the bots that just arrived while I was making this poll :[

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The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

The world is complicated.

Make your own content.