Yahoo accidentally deletes Flickr account with 4,000 pictures

its human error on flickrs end.

at least the employee should be fired, if you ask me.

and flickr should come up with something better than a $100 wioth of compensation.

because again, its not some system bug or whatever. a flickr employee made the mistake.

We just hope it will never happen to our yahoo emails or any other services from Yahoo.
Besides, if this a payable product then what about the free? I guess they will not even send you a message.

I wonder who the lucky chap was to press the big "DELETE" button on his account.

Hide the data/Remove access before deleting such a large amount of data. No real excuse for such a horrendous error. If I was dealing with 2 accounts with the same details I would have at least made sure the real user could still use his account before completely eradicating his account and 4000+ photographs. But yeah, to store everything on flickr with no local backup isn't too bright either.

I think he is Swiss and lives in Zurich so he is not an German.

Nothing is ever deleted..It's just too much work and would cost them more money than what any 1 person is worth to them. When it's going to cost them more money on a lawyer then he will get his files back.

I believe a free Flickr account, is limited to 200 images. (At least those were the terms, last time I was there). I don't know what other perks come with a pro sign up,

Yahoo finally managed to hook me back up with a group I belonged to a couple of years ago. Took quite a while, it did. (The link was broken when
Verizon accidentally shut off my internet, in a, "freak renewal accident).


I do believe we should link this thread to the newer one; http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic160639.html