Flickr Banned My Account and All Photos Gone !

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Sep 29

Flickr banned my account with the similar reason as “Why Facebook banned my account previously“ and this time i’m not so lucky like the facebook case because flickr do not have appeal system, when your account deleted, all your photos gone and no further appeal shall be entertain.

According to flickr term of service, If they find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photo stream (example One, Two & Three) , flickr staff will terminate your account without notice and all your priceless photos will disappeared.

Feel pretty sad that flickr do not take users content (photos & video) seriously, they should allowed user to backup their files before terminate the account or at least friendly enough to removed unacceptable content. Lucky, all my previous flickr account photos that embed on my blog post still remain (not sure till when they will removed).

My Two Cents

DO NOT EVER host all your wonderful photos, video or content at external website without backup. For bloggers, DO NOT upload your photos to free services and embed on your blog, for the sake of saving bandwith, that wasn’t a long term way for blogging & you might make your blog look awful one day!

I do moblog with convenience of flickr for the pass 2 years and now i get myself a new flickr account again, my dear friends and readers, please remark my new flickr url ;

Juanito on September 30th, 2008 12:45 pm

i seriously doubt that it is because you are using ur pics and potraying them on ur blog… if that was the casem your account would have been deleted ever since day1.. flickr wont be that stupid to only realize it today..

just like a couple of wks ago when i used the pics from asian fanatics and posted on my blogsite and what happened was almost instantaneous. the next day, they block all the pics that were hosted on my blog site..

i guess someone is using ur pics from flickr for the wrong reason, either that or u must be misusing it as a commercial use since your web log is rather a community site than a personal site.. you might want to write to flickr and ask them the real reason… i believe the latter holds more substance…
Jerry Ong on September 30th, 2008 2:35 pm

thanks for sharing your experience here ! as the image show above Flickr doesn’t allowed users to sell anything, included promoting yourself or any products and i did few appeal their final reply was something as stated below:

“Once a Flickr account is deactivated, all the images and
information associated with the account are deleted from
our servers and cannot be retrieved”

Moral is don’t host important content at free service site without proper backup! good to learn
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