My Pet Peeve

posted by mlpotma, Jan 31, 2008 9:10 PM — 3 comments

People pay attention to your keywords! It's starting to drive me crazy when I do a search and all kinds of items show up that have nothing to do with the words I typed in.

I think what's happening is that people are uploading a group of related photos and then entering keywords for all of them even though some of them are specific to one or two of the photos in the group. (For example, a photo of an old phone, a photo of an old radio and a photo of an old clock, with the keywords "old, antique, radio, clock, phone" used for all three pictures). Other times, it appears that people have entered a typo ("car" instead of "cart") or perhaps have limited English and picked the wrong word from their dictionary.

In an ideal world, it would be great if the people who review the photos for quality could also take a look at the keywords and make sure they are appropriate and accurate. If that adds too much to the reviewers' workloads, then a way for people to suggest corrections other than just a note in the comments, would be great!

Until a better system is implemented, I just wish everyone would take a little more time and effort to make sure their keywords are accurate and as exhaustive as possible. Good keywords are the only way to find good pictures!

Thanks for reading my little rant, I feel much better now. :)