When Mirco Wilhelm attempted to log into his Flickr account yesterday, he was shocked to uncover that his 5-year-old Pro account with roughly four,000 images had entirely vanished. It then dawned on him that only every week previously he had noted an alternative account for posting stolen photographs.
He quickly contacted Flickr asking if they had deleted the wrong account by error, and obtained the following e mail:
Howdy,
Unfortunately, I have combined up the accounts and accidentally deleted yours. I am terribly sorry for this grave error and hope that this mistake is often reconciled. Right here is what I can do from here:
I can restore your account,
office Ultimate 2007 keygen, though we will not be able to retrieve your pics. I understand that there is quite a lot of historical past in your account–again, please accept my apology for my negligence. Once I restore your account, I will add four years of free Pro to make up for my error.
Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do.
Again, I am deeply sorry for this error.
Regards,
Flickr staff
So basically, Flickr accidentally cast their permanent account deletion spell on the innocent account rather than the guilty one, and there’s nothing they can do except offer four years of Pro membership as an apologetic gesture.
The fact that all account deletions are permanent (and often without warning) has been a lingering issue for quite some time now,
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Flickr has been sending out the subsequent statement to various news sites reporting on the story:
Yesterday, Flickr inadvertently deleted a member’s account. Flickr takes user trust very seriously and we, like our users,
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windows 7 32 bit, post and share pictures. Our teams are currently working hard to try to restore the contents of this user’s account. We are working on a process that would allow us to easily restore deleted accounts and we plan on rolling this functionality out soon.
It’s good that Flick realized that this broken system needs to be fixed,
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You have to f**king kidding, Yahoo! (via Thomas Hawk) Update: Turns out Flickr was in a position to restore Wilhelm’s account, and then gave him 25 years of pro membership for the mistake. We wonder though — would they have done anything if this hadn’t become a PR nightmare for the service? What about all the people who have had pics “permanently” deleted in the past? (Thanks Eugene!) Update: Interestingly enough, we compared Flickr and Facebook’s image deletion policy a while ago. We found that the two companies have fully different approaches to content deletion — Flickr deletes content almost promptly from their servers when you delete it from the site, while Facebook seems to never delete content.