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african serval, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Things I will not do on flickr:

HDR—in the hands of a seasoned professional HDR can be great for an image. Unfortunately there are around ten such people and none of them are on flickr. Please do not try.

"Best" Groups—usually invited by someone that's embedded a stupid image of a ribbon or medal, these groups are a scourge and thinly veiled ego buoy. Often these groups have something to do with HDR (see above)

"365" sets—Taking and posting a photo of yourself every day for a year sounds like a great idea…until you realize that it really isn't. For most people this realization comes around day 13 when they run out of inspiration for new and exciting poses, environs, outfits etc. Most of these photo sets are then abandoned and never returned to. For those that stick with it: we know all we need to know about you from the simple fact you even started the set. And unless you have an extreme mental disorder, you probably don't have more than a handful of 'sides' to your personality, certainly not 365, and most of those probably shouldn't be shared anyway.

Inane commenting—Don't get me wrong, commenting and adding notes to a photo in flickr is a great feature when not abused. Abuse is especially rampant on "the commons" images taken from archives. Please leave off-topic, non-constructive comments for myspace and irq.

Pretentious lingo—I can tell you're from the US, so why do you spell "photo" as "foto." Not basic. Also using the English spelling "colour" or "favourite" are unacceptable if you did not learn british english.

Shameless self-promotion—did you just post your own image in a comment for someone elses photo? Did you digg your latest upload? are you serious?!