picture perfect... or not

[dr4b]

Okay, I need a second opinion.

Recently I've been getting VERY frustrated at the way people seem to be taking my picture archives for granted, as if it's just an obvious thing that I'll go to events and snap lots of pictures and spend a lot of time resizing/editing/captioning/etc them and put them up on dr4b.org for everyone to do whatever they want with them.

Well, I'm getting sick of that, to be honest. Yes, I might just be having a really bad day (I forgot my keys, I'm stressed over this trip, I need to do my taxes still, I spent last night resizing pictures instead of packing, etc), but considering I seem to keep revisiting this theme, maybe it's time to do something about it.

So I basically nuked my entire pictures directory an hour or two ago. Whee!

The question is, "now what?" Your input is greatly appreciated:

[Poll #122318]

Also feel free to post any advice. Whee.

Comments

[sorjai.livejournal.com]

well, I can see that you deleted your pictures out of frustration. If you want to know whether you should put it back up or not, the question you have to ask yourself is: are you ok with other ppl taking your pictures? If not, then the best thing to do is to not post them at all. Sure you can prevent about 95% of users who aren't computer savvy from saving it, but there will always be people who will be able to get around it (and as a computer geek myself, I know I'm able to steal pictures when it's not allowed, hehe). Ehhh that's all I have to say. You're a computer geek, you should know how to handle it :).