Comments on: How Would You Feel if Your Flickr Account Were Permanently Deleted?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:27 +0000

Ive had this happen to me…..twice. Both times I was a pro member to. That’s when I decided to leave flickr for good. Flickr is a horrible place. They’re only out for themselves and treat everyone the same no matter how long they have been a member with them. They will simply delete your account without any prior warning or notice.

Also, the site admins are bad and offer little to no support to their clients whatsoever.

Im not the only person who has been screwed over by them. For example, Just last year, this one girl from japan who had been a flickr user for almost five years. She had well over 10000 pictures in her photostream and was very well recognized thru out the flickr community. Her works were very vivid, professional and artistic. Well, Flickr ended up deleting her account and all her pictures. Thats right, 10000+ pictures all gone in an instant! She got her account restored later but not her photos. Apparently she violated a copyright TOS by uploading her OWN pictures that she originally had posted on her OWN separate blog page to her flickr page. She was outraged and I dont blame her. Especially because those were her own pictures and not stolen media! She ended up moving her stuff to picasa web and has encouraged her family and friends to switch with her. I will do the same to since webshots and photobucket also suck.

So to all you current flickr users out there, Be careful. They’re like coiled cobras ready to strike at you any time.

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By: cassi_lynn

cassi_lynn — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:23:08 +0000

My pics too were deleted, and flikr gave me the run around,and said pics could not be deleated. I am going to talk with an attorney to see If I can sue them for invasion of my privacy and going into my private account and deleating my photos.I have also heard that photos that were of adult nature are being sold to the adult entertainment industry. And as Far as them saying once trhey delate pictures they are gone forever tghat is bull**** unless they are using a dept of defence type of shredder to destroy files!! I urge all persons whom flikr has done this too to contact someone for help!

By: Chris Pouliot » Le web est brisé.

Chris Pouliot » Le web est brisé. — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:52:13 +0000

[...] une utilisatrice (que l’on peut qualifier de populaire), s’est fait fermer son compte flickr pro sans raison valable et sans avertissement. Ce n’est pas réversible et la censure est devenue [...]

By: Ron Scubadiver

Ron Scubadiver — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:40:36 +0000

flickr deleted my account just before Christmas. I was getting over 200,000 hits per month. Last April it was reviewed and they said it was fine. I add more material of the same type, mainly street photography that tends to be more like portraiture somewhat in the spirit of Garry Winogrand and Vivian Maier. They mark the account moderate and send me a misleading email about nudity. I ask for another review because there was no nudidy. Next day the account is gone and they say they warned me. Yeah, a pass everything is OK eight months ago is their idea of a warning. Fortunately, I have all the original raw files, but almost everything had to be edited again. 550 images, 1400 contacts, the works were gone forever.

The only way to correct this situation is to find an alternative. deepa is doing something interesting with her new blog where she is allowing guest galleries. Perhaps we should exit en masse to a single destination like wordpress,com or whatever. There are all sorts of ways to host photos, but only flickr has the community (unless you want to include facebook where they steal your rights).

As for Heather, she has a reputation for rudeness and cutting off discussion whenever the issues get difficult. I really don’t think that she or Terrance are the source of the problem. It is somewhere higher up, probably at Yahoo.

By: jason nolan

jason nolan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:23:22 +0000

Time for me to back up my account and abandon flickr. I’ve paid for years. I have 5000+ photos and 250k views. I bring 50-100 students to flickr every year. Let me check google’s policy on deleting stuff.

By: Cool “accounting Reviews ” images

Cool “accounting Reviews ” images — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:34:24 +0000

[...] the User’s Account Without Warning Image by Thomas Hawk Last week I blogged about a Flickr user Shéhérazade who without wa… The user was upset about this [...]

By: Flickr User Asks Flickr to Check if Her Self Moderated Account is OK, Flickr Responds By Deleting the User’s Account Without Warning

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:14:40 +0000

[...] Responds By Deleting the User’s Account Without Warning Image by Thomas Hawk Last week I blogged about a Flickr user Shéhérazade who without warning saw her self moderated account get p… The user was upset about this because they thought that they were abiding by all of the Flickr [...]

By: Mike Owen

Mike Owen — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:26:11 +0000

“One of the most famous and respected streams in the whole flickr.”

Seriously? Someone suffers from a little USI.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:29:48 +0000

I just got deleted…..All my pictures were marked as restricted and had actually been checked three times over the last two years and deemed safe. So much for their own censorship.I had about 1000 pictures on there and over 2 million views. They are all gone now.
I could not work for such a heartless company that just deletes peoples work comments and friends.