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No Idea why Flickr is hiding Unique Knowledge about Medicinal Rice from world community?

Excerpts from my Field Diary (July 2014 Onwards) Part-1 No Idea why Flickr is hiding Unique Knowledge about Medicinal Rice from world community? Pankaj Oudhia Young researcher from Europe is complaining about my contributions at Flickr. “You have uploaded thousands of useful pictures and videos at Flickr but we are unable to reach to the contributions through Google as well as Flickr search. Why you are hiding it from the researchers like me?” I received his message yesterday. He is right and also his anger is but it is not my fault.  Although I am old user of Flickr but I am still confused about its intentions. Flickr allows 75 tags per picture and encourage its users to add tags so that pictures can be searched through search engines. I started adding 60 Tags per pictures and uploaded hundreds of pictures. Suddenly one day I got warning notice to remove the “Irrelevant Tags” from all pictures. When I asked about the “Irrelevant” Tags they failed to give th...