Wow, they're on drugs over at Flickr...

[giza]

Wow. I sent an email off to the tech support over at Flickr and I got the below response. Note the bolded section:

Just a quick email from Team Flickr to let you know that we've successfully received your recent Help by Email query and we hope to respond within 3 days.

We'd also like to take an opportunity to remind you that one query is sufficient and multiple queries regarding the same issue make the Magic Donkey cry.

Lastly, you may not be aware that our FAQs and forums are full of help goodness:

http://www.flickr.com/help/faq/

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/

The Flickreenos

Flickreenos? Magic Donkey? Wow, they must be on some good stuff...

Comments

[simbab.livejournal.com]

The "good stuff" they're on is alternately called venture capital funding or Web 2.0 kool-aid...

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I deleted my Flickr account. It kept getting hijacked.

[giza.livejournal.com]

By what? I haven't had this problem.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Dunno. Twice though, someone logged itno my account and signed me up for interested I'm not into. And one time, they made comments to someone's photo as me. Each time I changed passwords and they were right back doing it again.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for asking what may be an obvious question, but did anyone else use your machine? Have you done any checks for spyware?

I just haven't heard of Flickr being implicated in any recent security issues. If they had issues, I would have expecting to see Flickr being used as a launching point for phishing scams instead...

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

No, nobody else gets to use my computer. Not even the wife - she has her own laptop. She also doesn't have my passwords, to my computer or to my Flickr account. Other than the family, nobody gets close to the machine - I don't have visitors over or anything. So no, I don't believe it's an inside job.

When it comes to computer security, I've been described as almost paranoid. When it happened the first time I decided my password was too weak and I made a stronger one. I was hacked again in less than a week.

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

They got tired of competing Winamp's Ass-whipping Llama, and got themselves a magic ass to compensate.

[netcrimes.livejournal.com]

Did you make more than one query, you bad boy? And doesn't everyone know about the Magic Donkey? Where have you been?