Flickr Creator calls user "A Dick"... PR Problem? Not for Flickr...

Saw this link via @courtenaybird and had too much to say about it to fit in a tweet...

http://gawker.com/5288759/flickr-founder-calls-nuked-user-a-dick

Butterfield doesn't work for Yahoo of Flickr anymore. This isn't a "PR" or "messaging" problem for those companies. It's a "PR" problem for him personally if at all...


Also, I don't really think he's too far off base with his assessment. This user was trying to get his message out, which he has the right to do. The problem is that he went about it in the wrong way. Assaulting the system with volumes of messages is only going to lead to trouble.


Furthermore, why is the burden on Flickr/Yahoo to restore the images? Shouldn't the user have his own backup? If those images are so important, make extra copies, use JungleDisk, Cloudsurance, Blank DVDs... something!