When I read the post about copyright, my first instinct was to delete any photos I felt were good enough to sell some day--ones I wanted to protect from any loss of copyright possibilities.
It would be better simply to contact the administration
directly and
privately to resolve any of the concerns.
A legal matter should be decided calmly and privately, not by trying to stir up trouble in public. Such approach never ends well. Not on a message board, and not anywhere else. We are all adults here, and should understand that.
Which leads me to believe that the people who
started it, didn't really care about the issue as much as they wanted to cause trouble and have some "fun", either out of spite or just by character.
It's unfortunate that some other members gave into the fear mongering spread by a couple of users here. And instead of waiting for my response, they proceeded disrupting the board.
Yes--the deletions caused some interruptions in conversations
Over 2,000 posts were lost in total because of the topics that ended up with "deleted" all over them.
Let's put this into perspective. With 15 posts per page, that's
at least 133 pages on this website that were basically defaced.
And keep in mind, 90% of so of the posts that I had to remove were other people's posts. They belonged to the topics that had been turned into nonsense by such actions. This is the main issue here.
I don't know of any other community website out there that would let a group of people organize a disruption and then get away with it as if nothing happened.
Now that a change has been made--I wonder if everything can start anew with everybody back?
I'm looking into it. Some users will be let back in if they want to. But not all of them.