The carnivorous sheep of Skye

[shewhomust]

As we all know, Flickr has its funny little ways. There doesn't seem to be anything to be done about this: you ignore it you find a workaround, or you go elsewhere. I'm not enthusiastic about its new trick of adding tags to my pictures, but mostly I pretend not to notice.

I have just uploaded the last batch of photos from Skye (so there may be another holiday post quite soon) and this was one of them:

I tagged it with the location 'hebrides, skye' and then on second thoughts went back to add 'sheep', because I might want to find all my pictures of sheep, sometime. Flickr had got in ahead of me, and added the tag 'sheep'. Also 'outdoor' 'animal' and 'carnivore'.

Do they know something I don't?

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Does it actually add them or are they suggestions? If it does add them I'm quite annoyed. I never use dull, vague tags like "outdoors!"

Edited to add: It sure does add them. Go to your settings, then privacy, then look down for Autotags and edit to say fuck no do not autotag me. And then they disappear.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Please, it's too early in the morning... I can't find 'settings' in the new setup. To which menu has it fled?

Edit: Never mind. Found it now. Thank you, or I would probably never have found the darm ticky box, just muttered angrily and deleted those I saw. They always get everything wrong, and I am meticulous about tagging my photos. ('Outdoor' - why 'Outdoor' on every photo, even indoor ones. Who the *!?*& searches for 'Outdoor' in tags?)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Good to know it's possible to get rid of them - but, like lil_shepherd, I can't find settings...

They only do it to annoy -

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Click on your buddy icon.
Choose settings.
Choose privacy & permissions.
Under Global settings (the first section) you'll see "Show autotags."
Edit it.
Select no to stop Flickr automatically tagging you.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Thank you! I'd clicked everything I could think of - but hadn't thought of the wee icon ('buddy' icon? really? oh, well...)

[sovay]

Flickr had got in ahead of me, and added the tag 'sheep'. Also 'outdoor' 'animal' and 'carnivore'.

Who knew you were so lucky to get back from Skye without a run-in with sheep?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Quite: it's why Hebridean wool is so special!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

There must be some way to turn off that bloody auto-tagging...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

athenais is my guide in this, as in other things photographic!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I listed the steps up above. I should add I have a paid account and don't know what kind of options free accounts have, but I do hope that's one of them.

[anef.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there is a Tanith Lee novel featuring bone white, carnivorous sheep, but I cannot now remember which one.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

There are carnivorous sheep in Diana Wynne Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, but they're not as scary as the ones you're thinking of sound!

[anef.livejournal.com]

They might have been venomous rather than carnivorous...

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I never read a word of Tanith Lee (though I recall having read about her because dfordoom admires her innovative writing) nor of Diana Wynne Jones (that everyone but me has read) so clearly a case of intranät synergy or even just the Common Carnivorous Sheep of the Skies being more plentiful than we had suspected plus disguised as plain blondes (to get at their blood) but as we now happen to know, (bit as with the position of the Lurch in Monty Python's Flying Circus) distinguishable by way of the colour green; in spots (as seen above) or in total, as seen in the Dordogne (unhorned to seem meeker).

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

They grow wings and hunt only nights ((this works like the cows in Larson's universe who will stand discussing postmodernism til the farmer comes) , do you zealously (Mollberg typoism pottery; I was meaning to say seriously) mean to say, you didn't know? But I assure you, they avoid puffins due to dietary requirements! This is why the Romans left England, eventually (not that some island named Skye would belong to that Queendom) for they feared nothing but bloodthirsty Skye sheep. Nights, I often heart them flapping by because they got motorised by the Aliens long ago but *sssh* it's a secret secret, that. Otherwise they come jumping one's bed to take revenge, nights and this is why there are so few blondes left, for some reason they need their blood to keep their hairdoes curly; but I have no idea, what the horns are for. Or why they sing sad songs in that weird language of theirs.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

If I have nightmares tonight, I shall blame you...

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

[cellio]

They shoot laser beams out of the horns. That's why they curve 'round like that to have the points facing front in the end.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Off course! And their secret weapon (unless one knows) works longdistance, which is why they aimed at this bird; whether by mistaken piety or for the sake of abolishing hunger, we cannot know and the bird itself is feeling too unstable to say, it seems but many are coming over to see it anyway:
http://awesome-places.livejournal.com/185193.html

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome building!

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Flapped by as a gift from ancient gods, no doubt. It ain't dead, just resting its bones. Pining for the fjords.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What an amazing church, and story!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, I did not know that Flickr did that -_- Now I'm going to have to go check and see what my photos have been tagged as.

But yeah, the famous man-eating sheep of Skye--you didn't know?! You're lucky to have approached so close and gotten away with your life!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Flickr works ceaselessly to produce new features, and I am never grateful! It's automated, so it's clearly doing something very clever - but still irritating and not helpful!