The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[robhuncor]

Do you contact the person to let them know you know what they've done? Do you have any recourse?

 

[getaclue]

speckled, the chicks are soooo cute.

Regardless of some feeling they are anonymous, the fact remains that anonymous or not, if they have nothing nice to say, they shouldn't say anything at all. Plenty of adults nowadays don't show proper respect, or are flat out rude, therefore lack the skills to pass it on to their children too. I was raised to say yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir, please, thank you, etc. My children were raised that way too. Many people coming into our state from other parts of the country, did not raise their children to show consideration, courtesy, and to be polite. Eventually, these things seemed to fall by the wayside here in Florida, due to so much tourism, and the fact that far too many transient residents.

I have a cousin that was raised in Las Vegas. When she, and her kids moved here, she and my mother got into it the first time my mother told one of the kids that they were to answer her with yes ma'am, not yeah. My cousin informed my mother that yes ma'am, no ma'am, etc. were archaic, and designed to instill a sense of inferiority, and subservience in children. My mother let her know that regardless of her way of thinking, there were better reasons for teaching these things, which outweighed her reasoning, and had withstood the test of time.

Those same children are grown now. The younger of her two children, her son, partially learned that he was expected to be courteous, and polite. The older child, her daughter, never really learned. The daughter is very self-centered, and feels entitled. She, and her children are above everyone else. My cousin doesn't get to see her grandchildren by her daughter very much. She is not allowed to take the grandchildren anywhere, since her daughter doesn't think her mother's car is new enough, therefore possibly lacking in safety features that a new one would have. Her daughter insists on all organic foods, no exceptions. There are a LOT of other requirements too. The son, on the other hand, while he is a bit self-centered, he discovered he has to work for a living, and he's not entitled to anything he can't earn for himself. While his kids eat healthy, he doesn't go off the deep end if it's not all organic. He can't afford a new vehicle every year, so the safety features from a few years ago will have to suffice. Yes, my cousin can visit her grandchildren by her son often, and take them to go do things, and stop to get them something to eat.

 

[speckledhen]

Do you contact the person to let them know you know what they've done? Do you have any recourse?

I posted on both his ads that the photo was mine, not public domain, that it was to be removed and posted my copy of it. If he doesn't remove it, I will contact the admin and report him. He's just committing fraud, plain and simple.


ETA: It appears he's removed the ad with my photo in it. His other ads are still there. I changed ID's in case he just blocked my DH's FB name (it's an open group), but nope, they're gone, yea!

speckled, the chicks are soooo cute.

Regardless of some feeling they are anonymous, the fact remains that anonymous or not, if they have nothing nice to say, they shouldn't say anything at all. Plenty of adults nowadays don't show proper respect, or are flat out rude, therefore lack the skills to pass it on to their children too. I was raised to say yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir, please, thank you, etc. My children were raised that way too. Many people coming into our state from other parts of the country, did not raise their children to show consideration, courtesy, and to be polite. Eventually, these things seemed to fall by the wayside here in Florida, due to so much tourism, and the fact that far too many transient residents.

I have a cousin that was raised in Las Vegas. When she, and her kids moved here, she and my mother got into it the first time my mother told one of the kids that they were to answer her with yes ma'am, not yeah. My cousin informed my mother that yes ma'am, no ma'am, etc. were archaic, and designed to instill a sense of inferiority, and subservience in children. My mother let her know that regardless of her way of thinking, there were better reasons for teaching these things, which outweighed her reasoning, and had withstood the test of time.

Those same children are grown now. The younger of her two children, her son, partially learned that he was expected to be courteous, and polite. The older child, her daughter, never really learned. The daughter is very self-centered, and feels entitled. She, and her children are above everyone else. My cousin doesn't get to see her grandchildren by her daughter very much. She is not allowed to take the grandchildren anywhere, since her daughter doesn't think her mother's car is new enough, therefore possibly lacking in safety features that a new one would have. Her daughter insists on all organic foods, no exceptions. There are a LOT of other requirements too. The son, on the other hand, while he is a bit self-centered, he discovered he has to work for a living, and he's not entitled to anything he can't earn for himself. While his kids eat healthy, he doesn't go off the deep end if it's not all organic. He can't afford a new vehicle every year, so the safety features from a few years ago will have to suffice. Yes, my cousin can visit her grandchildren by her son often, and take them to go do things, and stop to get them something to eat.

Agreed. Archaic they say? Good manners and respect are archaic? Yes, that's pretty much what they're saying. It's laziness, entitlement and just plain old self-absorbed, self-centered attitudes.

 

[holm25]

Cyn I don't get some people sometimes. Why would they think its OK to use one of your pics for their ad and not ask? FIRST OFF when I buy something and see pics I expect the pics to be of the product itself. Not somebody elses stuff! And second his product must not be as nice if he cant use pics of what he is trying to get rid of.

 

[speckledhen]

Cyn I don't get some people sometimes. Why would they think its OK to use one of your pics for their ad and not ask? FIRST OFF when I buy something and see pics I expect the pics to be of the product itself. Not somebody elses stuff! And second his product must not be as nice if he cant use pics of what he is trying to get rid of.

Yeah, folks would be disappointed if they saw the egg color from his birds. Nora had the most intense blue color of any Ameraucana I ever owned. That egg in the basket was actually her very first egg. Sure miss her. She'd be 9 years old along with her sister, Snow, if she was still around. Remember, not long ago, this outfit on Ebay calling herself "Holistic Pastures" was advertising BBS Ameraucana eggs and used Snow's picture, even put their own watermark on it. It was a BYCer who contacted me, plus that seller, saying she knew the bird and the owner and to take it down. Pays for folks to know your chickens!

This one-they reversed it and put their watermark on it. The nerve! Of course, she is beautiful, but to put your watermark on someone else's photo you found floating on the web? That takes some real chutzpah!

 

[speckledhen]

The man, to his credit, promptly removed the ad featuring my egg basket photo and re-posted one using his own (or at least, not my) photo. I get tired of chasing down these folks, I really do. Sometimes, it's ignorance, or laziness or some folks are really trying to pull a fast one.

 

[Pyxis]

Yeah, folks would be disappointed if they saw the egg color from his birds. Nora had the most intense blue color of any Ameraucana I ever owned. That egg in the basket was actually her very first egg. Sure miss her. She'd be 9 years old along with her sister, Snow, if she was still around. Remember, not long ago, this outfit on Ebay calling herself "Holistic Pastures" was advertising BBS Ameraucana eggs and used Snow's picture, even put their own watermark on it. It was a BYCer who contacted me, plus that seller, saying she knew the bird and the owner and to take it down. Pays for folks to know your chickens! This one-they reversed it and put their watermark on it. The nerve! Of course, she is beautiful, but to put your watermark on someone else's photo you found floating on the web? That takes some real chutzpah!

That's awful, first to use it in the first place but then to also watermark it as your own? It's that kind of thing that makes me watermark all my AC pictures. Too many people out there looking to make a quick buck that would use them to sell their own birds and eggs.

 

[speckledhen]

That's awful, first to use it in the first place but then to also watermark it as your own? It's that kind of thing that makes me watermark all my AC pictures. Too many people out there looking to make a quick buck that would use them to sell their own birds and eggs.

Back then, I didn't watermark and after I did and went back to replace some of the photos with the watermarked ones, BYC's "no more edit" thing on old threads would not let me and I had to get someone to do it for me on a couple of them. Even then, the non-watermarked ones are out there floating. But, when you click on an image, you get a link to where it was found so there was no excuse for them to steal the pictures. I've had quite a few taken over the years, the most puzzling was my original 8x8 coop! Someone in Texas, I think it was, had it for sale. What the heck were they planning to do when someone wanted to buy it? Probably just a scam to get $$

 

[getaclue]

All I can say about people taking your pictures is WOW!

 

[speckledhen]

All I can say about people taking your pictures is WOW!

Scruples are in short supply these days.