Let me come right out with it. People who take other people’s pictures and pass them off as their own piss me off! 

 

However, what is worse is when someone reports another member from taking his picture, and both members claim the picture belongs to them.  So: who is right? Who says the truth?

 

We simply don’t have the time to get involved in other people’s disagreements but it is not fair to delete the pictures because you run the risk of deleting the picture that really belongs to someone.  In the absence of a tattoo or prominent moles or scars etc how do you determine what belongs to whom? 

 

Although there is one notable exception but it is just that: an exception, we don’t want to start accepting pictures that are already watermarked in a very ugly way, so what can we do?

 

If you guys have an idea of how we can handle such a delicate situation please let us know.

 

Thank you!

 

Comments


Buddyngear

  • Posted 4 months ago
I agree with cpuguy1. Most times I take several shots in the same gear but only post one or two. If a shot comes into in dispute ( which is a pain for the site owner) just send off the other shots. In the past I have had my pic sent back to me as someone else and also found a couple of pics on sites I had not authorized to show. It's troubling. I also agree with SweatyAussie. It's sad some guys are not confident enough to show or feel comfortable with themselves.

noripsin

  • Posted 4 months ago
Please bring back verification - have us send you a face pic or full body pic with a sign saying "spandexguys.com", or something along those lines. Admins can verify profiles this way and keep those pics private (not all of us want our faces available for everyone to see). I see lots of profiles on this site with obviously stolen pics (usually only one) from either social networking sites, or sites where photographers take random photos of spandex guys at sporting events. Who are they fooling?

option_

  • Posted 5 months ago
some of the suggestions on here are missing the obvious:

not all pictures are full body & face shots

if someone has uploaded a pic of them in some cycle gear, & a 2nd user copies that pic, how do you prove whos it is?
you can only compare faces if the original pic shows the face
there is a lot of the same or similar gear available

they may be stolen from another site, so upload timestamps are of no use

OS777

  • Posted 5 months ago
Lame small men with no sense of self dignity copy another guy's photos and try to pass it off as their own. Sad, small person, too lazy to have photography taken of them (even with a cell phone). Too much reality shows on TV have produced copy-cat individuals. Get a life you impostors and get your own photos. On this website their 's _ _ t' is hanging in the wind for all to see and know they are fakes! Sorry to be so blunt but 'posers is posers' and that is on the bottom of the food chain!

1guyn2gear

  • Posted 5 months ago
here is a easy solution to Fake pics... or people who steal pix and post them as their own... if someone says someone or another member on this site is stealing his pics Have both the accused and the accuser take a Photo of them selves via web cam or digital camera and Email it and let an admin on this site view it. two people cant take the same exact pic then you know who the faker is!

SweatyAussie

  • Posted 5 months ago
I'm not sure there is a foolproof way round this problem.

There is some satisfaction however in knowing that the real owner of the photo can be proud of the way he looks, knowiung that it's appreciated by others, while the person who stole it has to live every day with the fact that they do not see that image when they look in the mirror.

fitch

  • Posted 5 months ago
Stealing other people pictures then claim it's their own or post them in other sites is nothing new. I had at least a hundred pictures stolen from a few of my accounts on a few websites since late 2003 and I keep seeing my pictures pop up somewhere these days. It's a shame people do that and the farest I've gone to had my pictures removed is by a Reputation Lawyer forcing legal action. The best thing to do is put copyright logos on the pictures especially on the body to prevent removal. F*ckers!

Bryan_Lyte2

  • Posted 5 months ago
Disabling clicking is labor intensive, likewise is date stamping (which only makes it a race between the original, and the counterfeit), and verifying. The honor system will need to play it's part for the time being.

arenaspeedo7

  • Posted 5 months ago
That is so wrong that people steal other peoples pics ( they should be Banned ) !

cpuguy1

  • Posted 5 months ago
Guys, this is a free/donation site. I think we should make it as easy for the admins as possible. I agree with what Slingshot said. Ask the two users to provide updated pics in the same gear, or very similar to the pic in question. It will be pretty easy to tell who the real user is.
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