12wonderY
https://www.librarything.com/pic/167803
Please vote no.
Instead of flagging, this image only needed to be re-assigned to the correct James Mason, which I've done.
Please vote no.
Instead of flagging, this image only needed to be re-assigned to the correct James Mason, which I've done.
2r.orrison
While you're at it, please vote against the flag on https://www.librarything.com/pic/134820 which has likewise been correctly assigned.
32wonderY
https://www.librarything.com/pic/6237076
I've explained site policy to this author (which he has deleted) and told him the picture would soon disappear. I think it should.
Please flag.
I've explained site policy to this author (which he has deleted) and told him the picture would soon disappear. I think it should.
Please flag.
42wonderY
This one needs just one more vote:
http://www.librarything.com/pic/6801172
Author is messaging me with defiance, stating with indignation that it is his "official portrait."
http://www.librarything.com/pic/6801172
Author is messaging me with defiance, stating with indignation that it is his "official portrait."
5lilithcat
>4 2wonderY:
Appears to be gone now.
Was that the one with the big question mark? I'm pretty sure that that one had been flagged before, so keep an eye on that author. He may do it again.
Appears to be gone now.
Was that the one with the big question mark? I'm pretty sure that that one had been flagged before, so keep an eye on that author. He may do it again.
62wonderY
>5 lilithcat: Yes, it was.
http://www.librarything.com/profile/KJKruk
I can't tell why he's so shy, but he might also be worth watching to make sure he doesn't add sock puppets. Just a hint of it possibly.
http://www.librarything.com/profile/KJKruk
I can't tell why he's so shy, but he might also be worth watching to make sure he doesn't add sock puppets. Just a hint of it possibly.
7MarthaJeanne
If s/he puts it up again we'll just have to take it down again.
8susanbooks
Copy & pasted from Talk about LT:
"Hey friends,
I posted an author pic w/the author's back turned. It's the only pic I could find of the author & is the image she has chosen to identify herself on Amazon. A member flagged it & we've been debating the rules a bit. The guidelines say:
'before the image is flagged we recommend leaving a polite comment on the picture asking the member who uploaded it to justify its use in that context (an anonymous author using a non-author-photo image, for example).'
As I posted on the page, wouldn't that seem to suggest that a non-author photo used by an author is justified? Since this is an author photo (albeit not one of her face), wouldn't this fall under the guidelines? Or am I reading them wrong? Talmudic explanations welcomed."
In the Talk about LT thread, someone asked what info a pic with an author's back turned could possibly provide. I replied, "This particular picture tells you the author is white, blonde, of thin-to-average build. All of that can mean nothing, but if she's writing about race or body, those things can mean a lot. And it's so much nicer to look at than the generic grey blob."
This is the pic under discussion https://www.librarything.com/author/hammondeva
"Hey friends,
I posted an author pic w/the author's back turned. It's the only pic I could find of the author & is the image she has chosen to identify herself on Amazon. A member flagged it & we've been debating the rules a bit. The guidelines say:
'before the image is flagged we recommend leaving a polite comment on the picture asking the member who uploaded it to justify its use in that context (an anonymous author using a non-author-photo image, for example).'
As I posted on the page, wouldn't that seem to suggest that a non-author photo used by an author is justified? Since this is an author photo (albeit not one of her face), wouldn't this fall under the guidelines? Or am I reading them wrong? Talmudic explanations welcomed."
In the Talk about LT thread, someone asked what info a pic with an author's back turned could possibly provide. I replied, "This particular picture tells you the author is white, blonde, of thin-to-average build. All of that can mean nothing, but if she's writing about race or body, those things can mean a lot. And it's so much nicer to look at than the generic grey blob."
This is the pic under discussion https://www.librarything.com/author/hammondeva
9Nicole_VanK
>8 susanbooks: While don't see such pictures as very useful, I don't see them as a violation of policy.
