Comments on: Is the Pinterest Problem Really a Problem?

By: Joe Don Baker

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:02:25 +0000

My problem as a Marketing professional is twofold. First, Pinterest does not allow any way to “lock” the description of an image. I was able to set up the code to add the “Pin It” icon to our website, and part of that code is the “description” that will autofill when someone wants to Pin an image. However, the person doing the pinning can simply delete the description or overwrite it. This is unforgiveable.
The second problem is that when browsing Pinterest by keyword I was able to see a multitude of images belonging to us. When I clicked most of them there was no mention of our company or product (which the pictures is showing). I was able to add my comment to rectify this: up to a point. After about 5 times I got a “Uh-oh, looks like you’ve been overdoing it on the comments” or some such nanny bs. I think Pinterest was not developed with future business practices in mind and that makes it fall well short of being a viable marketing tool.

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By: Paul Irvine

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:40:28 +0000

Wonderful article, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
My wife is a cake maker which are sold through the family restaurant, and a lot of her cakes are on the company website.
Long story shirt I have just discovered another issue with Pinterest in terms of bandwidth (or the amount of data sent/received from a website)
There is one particular high-res image that is about 2MB on the website, and it has been repinned no LESS than 200+ times on pinterest.
To put it another way, I have had to readjust the bandwidth allocation for the website no less than FOUR times in the last 3 days, it has now reached 20GB of bandwidth usage and is still climbing.
I guess the message for your readers (tied into what you said about image size/dpi) is if you do run your images from your web host, for goodness sake ENSURE that you are using 75dpi, save as a JPG format (not PNG) and keep the filesize as small as possible while maintaining image clarity.
Take care all, I’m off to replace the high-res with a lower-res image AND watermark it 😉
Paul.

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By: Mary Lehmann

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:33:13 +0000

I have been viewwing “pintrest” for nearly 2 years and now i am blocked I do not share or Repin

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Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:38:59 +0000

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Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:01:10 +0000

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By: Lyla Mclean

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:33:04 +0000

For years I worked the major art and craft shows and had people buy my work, copy it and sell it as their own. I got shingles once from rage. Today I feel sad for those who have no imagination and have to copy others and pass it off as theirs. At the same time, we all absorb billions of images and other data. There have been times when two scientists, having no knowledge of each other, come up with the same ideas at the same time. Maybe all the beautiful, wonderful, amazing and fun ideas are all part of Creation rather than creation, a spiritual concept that goes beyond “my” work?

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By: Edward M. Fielding

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:35:20 +0000

Probably worse than Pinterest is the general loss of permanency of images. Everyone wants to find or post and image, get some feedback from friends and move on. They want their engagement photos on a disk so they can Facebook them. Its a generation that doesn’t invest in physical imagery that you can hang on a wall. They are too fickle for that. They change tastes by the hour.

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By: Pedro from Art&Supplies

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:03:18 +0000

I think this is totally out of control now, I am a painter and decided to sell online and do my best using Pinterest. I am aware many of my artworks are published at hundreds of sites because I have seen it, but… before Pinterest it was similar!, the only change is today this is easier and easier…
Finally I have decided to add myself a Pin button on my paintings and hoping my website maintains the link back to my site. I surrendered.
http://www.art-and-supplies.com/figure-art.html
I invite you to see what it looks like now with the Pin button on each picture.
regards
Pedro

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:50:18 +0000

[…] frequently, I couldn’t help but think of an article I had seen lately regarding the “Pinterest Problem.” In another article I had read about photogaphers being upset at having their images […]

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By: Katherine Tyrrell

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:15:17 +0000

I’ve referenced this blog post in my website Pinterest, Copyright and Spam – for Visual Artists & Photographers. This provides an overview of the legal niceties and the perspectives of all the different people involved with the debate about how Pinterest has been operating.
This also contains a complete UPDATE on all the changes Pinterest made to its TOS and other ways of working in April and May 2012 – which post dates most of the comments on this blog.
Bottom line – Pinterest did have to change the way they it was operating! Plus Pinterest members should also have taken note of the changes in the TOS as of 6th April 2012

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