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

By: C.A.

C.A. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:29:54 +0000

This is not uncommon at all, if my experience is any indicator. I accidentally forgot to properly moderate some adult photos on three separate occasions with three separate accounts. All 3 times I received a message politely stating that my account had been marked restricted and providing instructions on how to get it reviewed. ALL THREE TIMES, I followed the instructions, moderated the content, and requested a review. ALL THREE TIMES my accounts were then summarily deleted without warning. Only the first time did I receive a message explaining the deletion. The last 2 times I neither received warning nor explanation.

I tried searching Google today to see if others had experienced this, but so far, this is the closest match I’ve found. Any advice would be appreciated. For now, I guess I will assume every time my account gets marked “restricted” that it is inevitable it will ultimately get deleted.

By: Dish Network

Dish Network — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:28:03 +0000

Harsh and Draconian punishment for violating terms…

By: Donna Lethal

Donna Lethal — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:53:48 +0000

I just went thru similar – and I had NO adult content. Could it have been Jayne Mansfield’s large breasts? Blaze Starr’s bum? They sent me email after email stating their guidelines about “fetish imagery” and “pubic hair” and “nudity,” none of which I had (well, maybe Blaze’s bum.) After going back and forth with the charming gentleman named Terrence, who not only flagged me as moderate (preventing me from posting to my favorite groups, “Spelling Mistakes,” “Bad Signs,” and of course, “Vintage Big Hair,”) I ended up deleting my account. I know I lost my money, but the year is nearly over and I couldn’t deal with any more one sided arguments. What a waste.

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By: lilburne

lilburne — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:59:51 +0000

You say “there are currently 94 threads (most of them closed or locked by Flickr) in the Flickr help forum with the words “censorship” and “mistake” in them.” interesting but what are we to make of Google’s report that there are 14,700 websites with “thomas hawk cunt”?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thomas+hawk+cunt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:36:01 +0000

Yes, flickr has the right to delete an account, but there appears to be too much of it going on for the wrong reasons or “by mistake.”

If I’m to believe what flickr says, when an account is deleted, it’s gone… all data vanishes. This astounds me. The applications I work on as an application developer very rarely allow data to be permanently deleted. We flag it as deleted. It appears deleted to the users, but it’s still recoverable if a mistake was made. It’s a fairly common practice, and it floors me that flickr doesn’t architect their systems this way.

By: Please_Delete_me

Please_Delete_me — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:07:23 +0000

What happened to the part where you say “I am the CEO of Zooomr”? Have to stopped disclosing this when bashing Flickr or are you no-longer the CEO of Zooomr?

Ironically it’s also not possible to get an account deleted on Zooomr not matter how much you want it or ask, please when are you going to fix that?

By: dd

dd — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:52:42 +0000

good