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Socialthing! does not need the ability to delete Flickr photos.
Why does Socialthing! want access to be able to delete my Flickr photos? There is no reason Socialthing! needs anything other than read access.
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Understandably so. I don't know if Flickr has this kind of safeguard in place. We're definitely not in the game of deleting pictures for you, but totally understandable why you might be wary of it.
Just the same way that Gmail has backups in case someone accidentally deletes your account, I am sure that Flickr has a similar thing...but they probably just don't like to use it all that much...
Once we get the read-only piece of Flickr in there, we'll be able to help you out...
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Abraham, this is not true. "Delete" is the only permission that allows us to upload photos. Part of our vision is allowing the user to be able to update your status (twitter, facebook, pownce, jaiku), upload photos (flickr, facebook, myspace, zoomr, etc.), post to multiple blogs (blogger, wordpress, livejournal, etc.) all from one interface.
Coming up, you'll be able to "downgrade" the access you give to your account, while sacrificing these extra features (which, given the lower permissions, we are unable to provide).
To put your mind at ease, we have no interest in actually deleting your photos on Flickr. That's merely the term they've provided for that level of permission. "Write" permission only allows the third-party application to edit/write/delete photo metadata, not the photos themselves.
If the option existed for us to ask permission to only upload photos and edit metadata, we would be ecstatic. As that option doesn't exist yet, we have to settle for the intimidating "Delete" option.
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Inappropriate?Abraham, this is not true. "Delete" is the only permission that allows us to upload photos. Part of our vision is allowing the user to be able to update your status (twitter, facebook, pownce, jaiku), upload photos (flickr, facebook, myspace, zoomr, etc.), post to multiple blogs (blogger, wordpress, livejournal, etc.) all from one interface.
Coming up, you'll be able to "downgrade" the access you give to your account, while sacrificing these extra features (which, given the lower permissions, we are unable to provide).
To put your mind at ease, we have no interest in actually deleting your photos on Flickr. That's merely the term they've provided for that level of permission. "Write" permission only allows the third-party application to edit/write/delete photo metadata, not the photos themselves.
If the option existed for us to ask permission to only upload photos and edit metadata, we would be ecstatic. As that option doesn't exist yet, we have to settle for the intimidating "Delete" option.
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It is possible and quite easy to have write only permission.
From Flickr's specs:
5. Authentication permissions
An application should never request more permissions than it needs to operate. The permissions field is a string, representing the permission level. Each level implies the level below it. Possible permissions are:
* read - permission to read private information
* write - permission to add, edit and delete photo metadata (includes 'read')
* delete - permission to delete photos (includes 'write' and 'read')
For example, the permission w allows an application to read and write on behalf of the user.
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Inappropriate?Currently I only add photos to Flickr through their web interface or using a program I have complete control over. So the ability for Socialthing! to upload pictures isn't useful to me. I look forward to the ability to use only the "Read" access level for Flickr.
I was not implying that I felt Socialthing! would delete my photos just that its a authorization level I'm not wiling to give to anyone.
Maybe Flickr will implement a "Add" only level of authorization where you can add photos but not delete them.
Thanks.
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Inappropriate?I had the same reaction as Abraham. Yikes!
I'm okay with giving access, but is there some kind of safeguard on yahoo's end that prevents SocialThing (or any other 3rd party that I have given permission to) from accidentally deleting my entire account?
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Inappropriate?I had the same reaction as Abraham. Yikes!
I'm okay with giving access, but is there some kind of safeguard on yahoo's end that prevents SocialThing (or any other 3rd party that I have given permission to) from accidentally deleting my entire account?
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Inappropriate?Understandably so. I don't know if Flickr has this kind of safeguard in place. We're definitely not in the game of deleting pictures for you, but totally understandable why you might be wary of it.
Just the same way that Gmail has backups in case someone accidentally deletes your account, I am sure that Flickr has a similar thing...but they probably just don't like to use it all that much...
Once we get the read-only piece of Flickr in there, we'll be able to help you out...
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Inappropriate?How is the status on this issue? Socialthing still wants "delete" access to my flickr account, which makes me feel a bit unwell.
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