11 years ago
Some words concerning this new little feature:
Don and I are shocked about the reactions that the „cat issue“ provoked. It was wrong to reject peoples' photos without giving a note to the persons concerned. It was a bad mistake on our side to do such a thing without further consideration, and we can only apologize. This is generally not the way that we want to treat the users and I think most of you should remember several occasions where things were handled in a different way.
So, we want to take measures that such a situation will not happen again.
We do not really understand the degree of the current commotion. There have been no such reactions at the German Parfumo where respective photos have been rejected just as well.
Personally, I am also shocked that the words „freedom of speech“ have been used in this context. I find this highly inappropriate. We have absolutely no intent to limit or violate anybody's freedom of speech.
Don and I have thoroughly discussed the situation during the past days and we got helpful advice from several users. One result was that we had to acknowledge that the current process of uploading, admitting or rejecting perfume pictures does not live up to our own quality standards. It is not fair to simply reject a photo for whatever reason.
Our understanding is that any photo uploaded is valuable no matter how blurred or off topic it may be. Somebody has taken effort, has made a contribution and this merits to be appreciated. Therefore, from now on, no photo uploaded will simply be rejected by Parfumo. (Of course, this does not apply to highly offending content such as hardcore porn and the like). If it cannot be admitted to the perfume queue for whatever reason, the respective user will find it in his or her personal photo album. It will not get lost and all of the users' friends and visitors will see it. Also, a notification will be sent.
Don has stated the criteria for the perfume photo queue elsewhere so I do not have to repeat them here.
