For a long time, HDR was all the rage on Flickr. Every day, when I browsed the interestingness pages, they'd be crammed full of god awful HDR images. If you don't know what HDR is: It's the process of taking several versions of the same photo (each at different exposures) and tone mapping them together. It can be used to create really nice imagery, but its even easier to ruin photographs with it. Most of the photos uploaded to Flickr with the tag "HDR" are terrible. But for some reason, it was a very popular kind of crap, so for weeks on end interestingness was all crap HDR photos. Luckily (at least for me), that has started to die down.
At the same time, another annoyance has gained more popularity. I'm talking about the whole, "I'm an admin for a group called X and we'd love to have your photo added to the pool." This is so very annoying. If I wanted to add my photo to your group pool, I would have. If I cared enough about the subject your group is related to, I would have found a group. If I didn't, I probably don't care. When I get a new activity notification, I am absolutely incensed to find out that it's one of these comments. For a while I would oblige, but that stopped a while back. Now I just delete the comment immediately.
What's particularly annoying about these requests is that they often come up for the most ridiculous or random of groups. Rarely will I get a, "I'm an admin for the group called Mountains of Europe" comment. But I will get something along the lines of, "I'm an admin for the group called Men Who Wear Belts." What is the point of that?
A perfect example is a recent comment Katia received on one of her Nova Scotia pictures, in which you can see her feet on the rocks above an algae-filled pool of water: "I'm an admin for a group called Keen Shoes..." Now, granted, she noted in the description that "Keens rule!" but seriously? A group for photographs of Keen shoes?