One point though, is that it’s incredibly difficult for any social media startup to moderate effectively, so all of them tend to be over zealous with their automated systems for dealing with phishing,spam and deceptive conduct. Humans are pretty good at spotting the misuse of systems, but humans are expensive to employ in large enough numbers to beat the antics of the bots that infect their networks.

Once again, thanks for your (great) comments.

While I do understand your reference to abusive pinning — objectively misleading pinning, my case and/or issue shows that such reasoning cannot be systematically applied and thus defined as a ‘preventive’ rule.

I have no doubt that I am not isolated in terms of the attention paid to the overall look of a personal account hence not dissociating usefulness from aesthetics.

Briefly, it is not uncommon while browsing the net that a subject matter won’t be accompanied by an appealing and/or clear illustration and similarly a good enough picture by a comprehensive text or description — such instances, to mention only these, leading to the association of two separate sources in a same pin.

As a matter of fact the option to edit the link of a pinned image is in this sense not only useful — essential — but tends to contradict the presence of a ‘voluntary’ preventive setting.

Nevertheless, if such was the case Pinterest should focus on discriminating spam accounts from ‘healthy’ ones, instead of ‘drawing down’ the visual content of its site.

It should be considered that for many ‘non commercial’ users — who will logically always be the majority — Pinterest acts as an open ‘scrapbook’ with all of its inherent visual selectivity, whatever the individual criteria. Thus the presence of a lot of personal pictures and art work with no other purpose than to share a visual pleasure — making picture enlargement all the more mandatory.

Technically ‘sophisticated’ commercial scrapbook-like sites — as seems to have become the trend — already abound on the web, and for Pinterest to stand out from the crowd and not be assimilated to a mere additional ‘web catalogue’ is to enhance and thus promote a superior visual experience.

I would add that, given the right long term decisions, Pinterest has the potential to stand as Twitter’s visual counterpart.

Which in my view would be an achievement.

Upon pinning an image — most times uploaded from my system — its full size displays on screen when hovered over, but once I edit the same pin to add a web address — by norm right afterwards — there’s no longer enlargement when hovering over that picture.

I see no logic in this and less so since usually my images don’t come from the site I am citing as a reference to allow further information about ‘whatever’ I pin — such cancelling the illogical eventuality of an ‘interaction’ where the ‘reference site’ would impose some sort of own image size limits.

Needless to say how frustrating this is given the effort — timewise — to look for pictures best illustrating what you’d like to pin on a platform by definition visual.