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My entire message board history, with hundreds if not over a thousand posts, has disappeared. Why?
Posted 7 years ago
Emperor, Champion
bluesmanSF, Champion
bluesmanSF, Champion
Jozef, if what's posted above is true, that's why.
Posting inappropriate messages on the board of someone who just died is thoughtless, inappropriate and offensive to most people who go there.
If true, you're lucky your account didn't get disable completely.
Posting inappropriate messages on the board of someone who just died is thoughtless, inappropriate and offensive to most people who go there.
If true, you're lucky your account didn't get disable completely.
BluesmanSF, what if you are a victim of something similar and you get axed. Is there anyway to recover an unfairly deleted posting history? You may remember me as ToniHunterOne. I had to create a new identity because I stumbled and got on the wrong side of someone.
I've never been disciplined or sanctioned until I went on the board of someone recently deceased. I was curious as to how he had died. I 'voiced my condolences to the family and friends in threads, etc. I then skimmed the posts and was noticing comments about Heath Ledger. I didn't know - hadn't read anything about this... thing. So I very innocently asked 'What is the story behind Heath Ledger's death'? I had a feeling I might get trolled so I put in the subject line pretty much just that. Something like: Subject: This might cause me trouble but...
and then in the body I asked because I truly didn't know and think it unconscionable but not improbable that people would make fun of a deceased person. Oh, I remember it was after James Gandolfini's death.
"What happened surrounding Heath Ledger's death?"
There were far worse comments on Gandolfini's thread than my innocent question. NOT ONLY did my thread question of Gandolfini's board get deleted but so did my entire five year history to postings and I was placed on a punitive hour long posting clock. No questions no queries, no recourse. I would have asked here sooner If I'd found this section but I only now discovered this part of IMDB.
It really angers me that one IMDB user can be so suddenly wrongfully and viciously be destroyed without opportunity for redress.
Oh, and I was NOT in any violation of any of the IMDB rules, etc. I can't explain other that I was made an example of by the others on Gandolfini's thread and a truly was in ignorance.
The way I look at it, the IMDB community now has heavy cliques that can bombard a user without cause. In a sense bully a user without cause or provocation and the staffers and moderators allow the accused to perish without facts to support the sanction.
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Dan Dassow, Champion
Hi MollyBlue,
Unfortunately once IMDb deletes a post or posting history it cannot be recovered.
There are literally millions on message boards on IMDb. It is infeasible monitor them all. On occasion, people making innocent posts on highly contentious boards get falsely accused and have their posts deleted.
Emperor, one of the other IMDb Get Satisfaction Champions has suggested the following. I support this proposal and suggest do likewise.
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/_smokejumping_moderators_to_fight_fires_on_the_worst_forums
Unfortunately once IMDb deletes a post or posting history it cannot be recovered.
There are literally millions on message boards on IMDb. It is infeasible monitor them all. On occasion, people making innocent posts on highly contentious boards get falsely accused and have their posts deleted.
Emperor, one of the other IMDb Get Satisfaction Champions has suggested the following. I support this proposal and suggest do likewise.
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/_smokejumping_moderators_to_fight_fires_on_the_worst_forums
Actually, the attack on Annette took place in a tribute thread on the Classic Films Board. jozefkafka was angry at attacks on Margaret Thatcher is an (off-topic) thread in that same forum -- so he made an in-kind assault on Annette, not realizing there is a big difference between a universally-beloved old time (and apolitical) star and a controversial political figure.
bluesmanSF, Champion
Got it. Thanks. That's likely what did it (or that and other problems added together).
Actually, he seems to have had a pretty clean record before this incident.
Perhaps Annette was also being trashed on her own board, so the admin who got the complaint was already all riled up (maybe the admin had even been a childhood Annette fan -- though I doubt many admins here would be so old).
Perhaps Annette was also being trashed on her own board, so the admin who got the complaint was already all riled up (maybe the admin had even been a childhood Annette fan -- though I doubt many admins here would be so old).
bluesmanSF, Champion
The boards get slammed hard with some truly sickening posts, after a death. So, they generally react pretty heavy-handedly to get the point across. Her board is not nearly as bad as, say, Whitney Houston's was...but still...inappropriate is inappropriate.
One bad post still is a little surprising. But, it looks bad if people came to the site and maybe the first time on boards they see that? Especially off the topic of the board it's on.
Thanks for the info!
One bad post still is a little surprising. But, it looks bad if people came to the site and maybe the first time on boards they see that? Especially off the topic of the board it's on.
Thanks for the info!
