check it: definitely an overkill. Posted 79 months ago. Some of my images have hundreds of comments, and they often make up the fabric of the history of the image. 2. ). I can easily host these from my site from this point on. Posted ages ago. Click on the Forgot password? ), Hi rianflynn, As I've said (several times now, in several threads), the whole "holding pen" / "limbo" for deleted accounts was officially on Staff's "to-do" list 23 months ago: www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/54689/page2/#reply309440 Posted ages ago. If i was doing something wrong it would have been nice to be emailed about it. I had sooo many contacts though! it would be really nice to talk to someone on the phone! Hopefully RubyMae. : Its a drop in the bucket, but overall i'm happy with how flickr has handled their mistake. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. ( permalink Posted ages ago. ( permalink It would be nice to hear from Flickr staff as to exactly what their capabilities are in this regard and when they've had them as in the past they've indicated that they are unable to restore deleted accounts. No one else needs it, so don't hand it over even if someone asks. While photos of a persons feet are not by nature sexual, if you add text, description, tags, or add the image to sexually explicit groups, then the photos context changes from Walt Disney to Ron Jeremy. Flickr is a customer-friendly. Posted ages ago. 4 months ago permalink. In the best interest of the user yesterday, we closed those threads. that's an easy thing to do (for software engineers). Posted ages ago. ( permalink Sometimes the speculation is just wrong. Posted ages ago. i’ve just deleted pics from my photostream as i also had them in a set, but have now realised that as i deleted them from the photostream that they automatically got deleted from the set. ( permalink Unless like some other words you use far too often, "locked" doesn't mean what you think it means. yes, it's a big site, and the 5,000 new photos and videos uploaded per minute sounds daunting. Only Flickr staff will be able to clarify. This thread has been closed by Flickr Staff. www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/80850/#reply511487, Alas, we're a big site... To give some scale, there are something like 5,000 new photos and video uploaded every minute. ), Brenda: it was deleted an hour ago, I personally encountered the "this user no longer active on Flickr" screen a dozen times while googling his images. If you create a new account, the emails and contacts can be moved to the new account. farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/3159331610_ba27336572_b.jpg Zack Sheppard (staff) edited this topic ages ago. I'm sorry but I strongly feel this should be on Flickr's wishlist! Why Flickr deleted me is now a mute point and I must forget about it and move forward.......Kathy That was written in anger as I was very upset. ( permalink With a simple description. Got it and thanks... Gwen That also can be very confusing. So I'll ask this specific question to Flickr staff. ), sweet distin - The problem arises only if you're using Flickr to store the actual copy of the picture that appears on your blog without linking. From now on, Flickr will only host 1,000 photos for free, and if you have more than that uploaded to the site, it will stop displaying them. ), add: "tags", "sets", "collections", "favorites" to your list! Flickr would have notified me by now as to excatly why I was deleted. Posted ages ago. My conclusion in the case of the OP; either she screwed up on Yahoo or Yahoo made a mistake. Not allowed. Go to Flickr.com; Click your icon in the upper left corner of your Flickr and click Settings. ), MabelAmber® ***Pluto5339*** Queen of Streetshots: good to know! ( permalink ), Nina Pearman: I have had them backed up before, and I have multiple copies of that backup, but to get them all from their backed-up state to flickr again would take more man hours than I would have have to give. scary to hear stories like that. delete facebook and stay in flickr free. Doesn't look deleted to me... did the OP have his Yahoo account deleted perhaps and assume that the Flickr account was gone too? ), TH: the difference is, your guy's images are gone. ), Zack you need to consider something real quick. How about a little more transparency? Flickr deleted my Pro Account with no warning...Do NOT Believe Their Marketing that it is a safe backup . ), i'm happy it turned out well. This thread was closed automatically due to a lack of responses over the last month. So as noted to Rian in the email to him, after looking at this again, it looks like maybe the deletion wasn't the right course of action so we restored his account as we do from time to time when we make a mistake. [edit to add:] ( permalink Posted 79 months ago. If you have a page with really great comments you can save it as a PDF or screen capture. You try and contact them via email to object and they won't return your emails. ), they restored my photos as well. it is locked up. Ivan Paganacci. 7. Posted 79 months ago. ( permalink ), I'm pretty disappointed to hear that the 'holding pen' idea seems no longer to be on the to-do list. Users should consider that an endless back and forth of "Well, look at this and this, this is probably why you were deleted," just isn't useful. Posted ages ago. I likewise have had Flickr accounts deleted fir bad behavior but it did not trickle ok very to Yahoo. this probably means that they don't backup contacts and messages. www.rianflynn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a... indeed i don't see why flickr would have delete your account www.flickr.com/photos/rianflynn/ Posted ages ago. Posted ages ago. ( permalink Those are two different things: One is about safety filters on individual photos; the other is about buddy icons. Posted ages ago. Posted ages ago. ), So if other people blog my photo without linking back to flickr (something that none of us have any control over and I've had plenty of people do this sometimes where I'm not even aware) then I risk having my photostream nuked? ( permalink Because Flickr refuses to offer us a reasonable and sane account recovery option, would flickr be willing to warn all users prior to account deletion and give them a reasonable time frame to respond to a warning and object to account deletion? ), definitely looking forward to that explanation Zack. ), Problem is, there's no good solution currently for backing up descriptions and comments. Sometimes it's better to bring up the whole threadlocking BS ahead of time, sometimes it works as a deterrent for them as if you call them out on it before they actually do it -- then they are less likely to do so. ( permalink When I remembered that I had my Flickr tied to that email address I rushed to check my Flickr to see if it was still there and it is with all the photos I posted, the only problem is now the Yahoo account I would use to login is gone. In addition violations of this nature result in a Flickr deletion and not a yahoo scrub. You wrote you have made the decision to delete your account in April this year - looks as if you did! ( permalink Posted ages ago. I was under the impression, also from certain post in past threads that deletion might extend to repeatedly misflagging individual photos. If only Yahoo/Flickr hadn't laid off developers back in April.... ), Ok So i spoke with support and they are restoring my account! Click on your profile photo, then on Settings. Which is weird. I would also like to know why there isn't a safety net. Following the tortured "PR" logic, it would make more sense from a consumer perspective, to have that capability public. But they are reasonable questions nonetheless. ), Yes, you're absolutely fine! Something not right. tangbunna. Posted ages ago. I really appreciate all your responses here! When you use Flickr's resources to store a picture so you can use it somewhere else on the web, you must provide a link back to the photopage on Flickr any time you use it somewhere else. And yeah, if those images still visible aren't a fluke, it'd be darned cool if they did have a "holding" pen now, and not an irreversible deletion. ), phew! someone licking an ice cream, become moderate or restricted by staff due to sexually explicit language in comments beneath the photo? Flickr and Yahoo! We don't discuss issues of why an account was deleted in the forum but we have received your help case and will be getting back to you soon. ) A single image, you wouldn't likely have a problem. Please allow some time Is it still a mistake and if so why not address it? ( permalink Posted 79 months ago. It's up to each member to decide whether or not their photos are available or hidden from public searches. How to delete Flickr account? staff have access if they need it. 4 months ago permalink. ) Guidelines. It would seem to make sense to have someone from Flickr explain exactly what their new found capabilities are, that is if a little transparency is not too much to ask. ), TH - you've got to be one of the biggest thorn's in flickr's side - if your account hasn't been "accidentally" deleted by now, I'd say your account is probably safer than anyone else's here on flickr. Not just one or two, but every one I tried. A problem is new accounts are limited to sending emails to 10 recipients per day until the account builds a reputation. They did lose my photos. Hey there! It does allow me to overide that, but do I have to change my settings to avoid that ? You are the very first person I'm aware of in my three+ years on this site, who has had their content restored from an account "deletion". ( permalink ( permalink ) A) Benefit the end user Major, major stumble from Flickr today–a Zurich-based photoblogger says Flickr deleted his account by mistake and lost his 3,400 photos. ( permalink Because I did not really understand the rules, guidelines. Like. Posted 79 months ago. loupiote (Old Skool) pro edited this topic 79 months ago. that sounds scary... i don't do that, but other people do. Under “Personal Information,” click Delete Your Flickr Account. We are in the process of migrating accounts onto our new login system. I've invested hundreds if not thousands of hours in my own Flickrstream. Posted ages ago. ), or maybe it triggered some automatic account deletion process. I can just imagine the backlash that could happen against that staff member, regardless of whether what (s)he did was an appropriate response (deleting the account). Craigslist posting? I am drafting a plan to move the photos as they are on flickr to a backup disk and drive. i thought that in that case. Definitely a bit too trigger-happy. I have tried on numerous occasions and succeeded in getting my account deleted. Why aren't 'deleted' accounts held for 14 days before they are purged? Many of his images still appear in Google Image Search, yet none of them still exist on Flickr's servers. but they have other ways to address the bandwidth issue. Please don't tell me to go to the community in your group. And when the account was reactivated, the photos were still there. Thank you for the help. farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3656503484_880444f3fc_b.jpg Posted 79 months ago. ( permalink draw your conclusions from there. Click OK, NEXT. ( permalink Do upload content that you have created. ( permalink It just sucks! But to your point, both threads where Flores was complaining about his account being deleted yesterday were locked by Flickr staff. 3. Guidelines. ), TH - rianflynn said he was ok with getting the "old url back" - something that has been done (and is documented here in threads in the Help Forum) several times (and like Colleen says, only when the account has been *not* deleted for violating ToS/CG). ( permalink ( permalink permalink ), kathynails867: Don’t upload anything that isn't yours. www.flickr.com/photos/125549722@N07/14282450489/ Posted ages ago. This would involve no programming resources whatsoever, is simply a policy change, and seems like a fair request given your track record for bad account deletions and you're unwillingness to consider an account recovery option. I have had accounts scrubbed. So I was just asking how you know that your account was actually deleted by the company itself. I trust you read my post and conveyed it to the rest of the team. Rian, don't worry they should stay there. Posted ages ago. The support is dead, no one writes back. ), Just out of curiosity, can a seemingly safe, though sexually suggestive image, e.g. i guess they todo list got longer, and it is sorted by priority, not FIFO. ( permalink ( permalink ( permalink Posted ages ago. And getting moved from safe to mod or restricted better than deletion. ( permalink That's probably fine then. it looks like my photos are still on the server! ( permalink Posted ages ago. If they can do it for others and people knew this, then they'd bitch a lot more about it when Flickr deletes their account thus potentially exposing them to additional bad PR. ( permalink ( permalink Posted ages ago. www.flickr.com/photos/rianflynn/ That said, there absolutely should be a way to recover a deleted account, for those times when it was in error, or is not on a level of eggregious illegality, and can be easily fixed. Flickr has no way to restore deleted accounts so you are just screwed. Can Flickr restore deleted accounts? Posted ages ago. No one ever needs your password to help you get your account straightened out. I do wish you the best though. my account has been mysteriously deleted as well yesterday, I have been in touch with flickr staff and they have emailed me the following : Posted ages ago. I want the flickr account gone. flickr.com/photos/rianflynn ), Hi all, ), As for this particular case, it could very well be that significant traffic from Craiglist, raised an alarm for Flickr staff. ), Ideally, when Flickr "deletes" an account, they would disable the account and make the account. Posted 79 months ago. Posted 79 months ago. ), TH - rianflynn said he was ok with getting the "old url back" If you delete your Yahoo account, the Flickr account associated with that account will be deleted as well. So basically the reason that they are still there is because Rian was lucky. farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2669267547_66b12c65fa_b.jpg We are still human and not perfect, but when we make a mistake we want to try to do what we can to fix it and learn from it. If none of that matters then no worries, gone is gone and no harm done. so if the images above were in his account, it is very strange that they are still there - unless his account has just been blocked, but not really deleted. ( permalink Customer service told me they werent able to get the files back. Flickr locks the thread where you complain about being deleted so as to diminish bad PR. Usually there is some info given when an account is deleted by staff. ), Wow. But they do far fewer than 5,000 new account deletions per minute. Besides, content "not yours" usually falls under Flickr's "we won't do anything unless someone issues a takedown notice" which 1: wouldn't happen in this case because he licensed the images and 2: wouldn't lead to account deletion, it would lead to the specific images being removed. my photos are posted on hundreds of blogs with deep links and no back-links. ( permalink Along with my Yahoo account. ( permalink For months, Flickr had my entire photostream, each and every one of my thousands of photos marked NIPSA. Posted 79 months ago. Posted ages ago. ( permalink ( permalink I can reupload the photos. Posted ages ago. It would be great, and important even, to determine if it's a fluke, or Flickr finally has a decent recovery option available for those rare times when an account didn't deserve to be deleted. The most upsetting thing is that after I put a lot of work into posting photos and videos, the staff should have the courtesy of sending me a notice of what bothered them instead of just deleting my account. Thank you for clarifying. ( permalink Flickr has no filter settings for text, we're allowed to put whatever vulgar musings we want on the page, even if it's on a photo of a butterfly. Posted 79 months ago. After contacting them I received an email informing me that it was due to breach of TOS. Will Flickr actually delete my account? It cannot receive or send emails. What staffer deleted your account? They set accounts to "unsafe" for misflagged content, they should be able to set accounts to "unseen" for some deletion-level offenses, and give customers a chance to fix the issue, or point out Flickr's error. ( permalink I'm on a cross-town bus right now but I'll be back on to explain what's happening when I get home. There's a serious problem. Hi Zack, The second happens the same way but in reverse, a deletion on Yahoo results in a recommendation to scrub the Flickr account to. The CG talk about images you have created yourself, not images that you have a license to use. But if their tags are full of suggestive search terms and the images are posted to voyeur groups, then Flickr can decide they're actually being creepy and boot them from the site. Of every day. ( permalink www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157632717676962/#reply7... info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html. My account was also deleted. Posted ages ago. that happens all the times. If you know your login email address or username, but are unable to log in because you’re not sure you’re using the right password, enter the login email address on the login page, then select Next. :( Its not that hard to start over. Posted ages ago. ), Wow thank you so much everyone! Even changing that she said it was too suggestive. You can either delete your Flickr Account permanently or you can temporarily deactivate your Flickr account with the help of Flickr parent site which is Yahoo. 4. ( permalink www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/102335/ You can change your default options for new ... Creative Commons. They need to consider this more than a "not at this time" objective. I only have about 15 photos right now, but plan to add more that will be restricted in nature. Posted ages ago. Posted 79 months ago. I sure would hate to see my photostream that I've worked hundreds if not thousands of hours on get deleted simply because some blogger somewhere posted one of my photos without linking back to Flickr. In the past they've said they cannot. And makes an ability to recover an account with images and comments intact, pretty damned important. (Sorry I couldn't help prolong the intrigue a little longer) ), All my photos were set as restricted and my videos as moderate and I know the guidelines very well for videos. ), sweet distin Normally if you violate some rule here on Flickr it's just your Flickr account that goes, not your Yahoo account. ), It's not yet been shown that the images themselves had any bearing on the account deletion - I'd be betting more on either the URL being used as the user-name, or the Craig's List matter. Posted ages ago. Flickr just deleted my account of 500 photos without warning. ), Whew, ok here we go (you all have built up so much intrigue around this that I'm actually all nervous to post!) Posted 79 months ago. Andrew Stadlen, Flickr's vice-president of product, says he expects the deleting process to go on for months. They usually give it 4-5 attempts and getting it right, but staff has refused to say how many times it takes to get permanently set to Restricted/Unsafe. 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