Roophilia Update: Is it the end?

[marko_the_rat]

• Two new photos of Tasmanian Devils feeding, including a great shot of their dentition.
  
• Tasmanian Devils fighting (probably over the aforementioned food).
  
• Close up of Eastern grey kangaroo's nose and tongue.
  

Wow! Over two years since my last update. No wonder it took me a while to remember how to update it all and to repair the shell scripts that

Comments

[avon_deer]

I remember that site..it was part of an awakening for me :)

[valleydee_groo]

I like the new roo pic, but I use your photos as references for drawings for a lil while, and that nose pic is a good one- might have to show my suit maker that pic- see if it can be recreated!

[schnee]

You'll probably have to engage in some sort of marketing to get the word out on the site. The web has grown incredibly, so any individual site will be lost in that vast sea of sites unless it somehow manages to make itself stand out. Also, digital cameras are so ubiquitious that photos of just about anything (certainly roos!) are easy to come by, and people's first instinct when looking for photos will be to go to Flickr, or Google Images, or the Wikimedia Commons, or so. Actively looking for smaller, topic-specific sites isn't gonna be very high on their lists anymore

[marko_the_rat]

I admit I'm not really sure what I mean by relinquishing control either. I know that was a factor in reluctance to go social, but now I can't really remember my reasoning process. Maybe I was listening more to rumours than the actual terms of service?

I still stand by my concerns about arbitrary censorship though. The soccer mums who run YouTube decided my video of whiptail wallabies was too pornographic for YouTube, even though it is now up there multiple times from other people stealing it and it seems I can't do anything about it because they're earning revenue from it. That hasn't happened so far on Daily Motion or Vimeo, but I know some of my photos would go beyond what Flickr would want even if I tagged it as mature.

[schnee]

I'm not familiar with the notification process for claiming copyright infringement on Youtube, but if their own process fails to work, you can always go the legal route. Consult your lawyer and send them a DMCA takedown notice; they cannot ignore that, and it's highly unlikely that someone who reuploads your videos would file a counter-notice.

Whether that's worth it is another question entirely, of course.

When you say "too pornographic", do you mean that it was removed, or that it was flagged as "mature", requiring users to sign in to view it? I don't think either would be appropriate for a video of wallabies mating, of course.

Either way, just do what you feel is best for the site, and don't feel pressured to take it in a direction or to a platform you're not comfortable with it.

[marko_the_rat]

It was removed. I would agree with you that it was not pornographic, but YouTube disagreed and made it clear that I have no right of appeal and if I keep "offending" they would have to delete my whole channel. I saved them the trouble and moved all my videos to another service.

[harvardheinous]

That's a little *too* close to a roo's nose! :P

[bob_bunny]

You need to be careful getting photo's of roo's nose and mouth they do have bad breath :)

I do speak from experience here, horrible smell, probably most ruminant animals have that problem.

Site updates are always a lot of work and in our busy lives finding time to keep a site up to date can be difficult, I did however find your site in my pre furry days and it was useful in filling gaps in my knowledge.

[marko_the_rat]

Really? I have not noticed halitosis on them, but I could be biased.

[bob_bunny]

My reference to bad breath was if they burped.