My free account is still going and I'd deserve to be locked out.

Still got my account. But I did get a message that the login procedure will change (no mail just a box above my pictures) . . . I usually keep a (few sessions open so maybe I get a problem when I log out and try to log in again . . .

That is what I get when attempting to log in.

Sounds like an anti-bot defense measure.

I'm not a bot.

Lol, see my tagline.

I'm so distraught!!!

I would NEVER post anything against the guidelines! My family and my job are connected to my photostream.

I feel abandoned.

Eep! This sucks! Perhaps your account (or computer itself?!?) got hacked?!? Hopefully they have some sort of appeals process... seems like they might, per a similar problem 8 years ago: Flickr: The Help Forum: [Closed] Account deleted wit...

And while it seems (from the end of that thread) they won't talk to others about someone's account... if there's anything I can do to support you, please let me know!

(Just sent a private plurk with some contact info, since I don't check in here regularly enough to be reliable.)

Also, in a hope that there can be some levity here, while I hate that this is happening to you, I kinda love the rhyme of "I am not a bot", "I'm so distraught"......

No response, so far.

I appreciate the humor

That's terrible!

so far, I keep getting the same response. Having no idea why is so maddening!

Sorry I haven't been around. It is end of year at work, so lots of wrapping up and preparing for reviews.

... yeah, well, and plurk has gotten to the quiet stage. We should all recruit some new folks or something?!?

Or make an active effort to be here. My review was yesterday, it was glowing, wrapped up all but one work project, and scheduled a week long vacation for June.

Still no answers from Flickr.

is not surprised. I bet you are hella fun to work with/for

Aww, thanks!

Where ya headed?

north Carolina

And good point on being more active.

Today is super slow, so I can hang out.

Oops. I bet it's not today anymore, is it?

But I'm going to try and hang out.

Yay.

I just sent them a message from my account, not naming you specifically, but describing in brief the situation, and asking for some info that I can give to you that would let you get some information and talk to a human.

we'll see what happens. :-/

thank you

Got a response yesterday morning (while I was out on a busy day): "Thanks so much for reaching out to us. My name is Stephanie and I'm a Lead here with Flickr Support. Your case caught my eye and I wanted to reach out to you regarding your request."... sounds good, but then, sigh...

"I do apologize, however, for security purposes we are not able to provide any information regarding an account to anyone other than the account owner. We take security very seriously here at Flickr, and would require the account owner to reach out to us directly so we can discuss this with them. If they have already reached out to us and have not...

"yet heard back, be patient, we are experiencing a higher than usual volume of requests lately due to our migration and our support team is working to get through these as quickly as we can."

I just responded saying that you've been trying since April 22nd, and that I'm not looking for information about your account, but merely information on how to actually talk to someone. We'll see how that goes.

I tied it back to my own account (since she offered to support that), saying I'd want to know how to get a hold of someone in case this happens to me.

for lindes

Sigh. They still don't seem to entirely get it, but then, I didn't share everything from here... here's a snippet from the latest they sent me (I can PM or email you the full stuff if desired):

"If your friend can either email us at [email protected] or by filling out the "Contact Us" form here: Contact Us we'd be happy to take a look over things and see what's going on."

I'm guessing the latter is exactly what you've been doing... but maybe the email address can help?!?

If not, I'm prepared to keep fighting on this, for as long as you want me to. Because fuck deleting someone without giving them any recourse to appeal.

That is where I have been sending the pleas

Your account got deleted. Happened to me. I had copied a picture from another user and stuck it in my photo stream. It is one of their rules that says you can't do that anymore.

I wonder if it's because of all the game NeverEnding screenshots I have in it

I recreated my account. You should be able to do it again. Though I haven't found any GNE groups yet.

Hope you have backups.

unfortunately I don't because that account was my only way I'm seeing family photos that were posted on my deceased uncle's account.

which is why this is very painful and I feel betrayed

I did everything in good faith from the very beginning

Just was digging through old e-mail and I hadn't yet archived the message I got from them with the help@ and contact us links.......... I'm glad to see I had managed to post those here, but... Did you ever hear anything??!? :-/

<3

err,

(I'm out of plurktice! (out of practice, on plurk)

no. It is a very sore subject. I still have no idea why.