Does anyone recommend a better image Hosting site than PB? One where they don't decided that they're going to delete a long string of images for no reason. (Warning, rant below)
So I signed on my PB account to find a image was deleted because it violated ToS. I click to read the file name to see which one it was... it was a small .gif of a sheep jumping rope (yes men, you can roll your eyes). How in Hades does that violate ToS? In fact, I Googled the term so I can find the image again and save it to my comp. Guess where I found it? Another PB user's album! Still there, happily skipping rope. How does mine violate ToS but their's doesn't?
So I contacted them with my complaint and when it was sent, I saw that even more images had been deleted--while I was writing my complaint! Problem is, those file names were "scrambled" so I have no idea what they were, thus, no idea how to get them back. I'm not using PB anymore and I'm sure they don't give a flying **** anyway.
nope its open to all. OK love the sheep jumping rope - that is great!
OK I had to re read it - he was the TOS violation?????
Oh yeah I can see.....hummm what a joke. Atleast when I got the TOS boot it was for really breaking the TOS. I'm going to steal your sheep and add him to my photobucket and see if I get a TOS violation. HAHA I feel like walking on the wild side...I know its baaaaaaddddddddd *said is sheep voice*
<--in my photobucket waiting for a TOS. Jump sheep jump -
Scary. I have about 1000 photos on PB and not all are saved anywhere else. The only other place I have photos is Shutterfly because I order prints from their sometimes. They also let you share your albums and do not delete the pics if you don't make a purchase like some other sites do.
It's a stretch, and probably not likely, but I wonder if they have some software running through everyone's albums, checking for duplicate filenames/file sizes, and deleting all matches except for one, to free up some space on their servers, thinking the people who's got deleted will do a search and just link to the one left in someone else's album.
I have a great pic of a wolf playing leap frog over a grazing sheep ... no matter how many times I look at it, I slap my knee. It better not be gone!
Edit:
Still there ...
I'm just taking a shot in the dark here...but maybe since it was on another person's account, it violated the TOS. Perhaps the person flagged it, stating it wasn't orginial or something like that.
well photobucket offers a link at the top of all pics to "copy to your album" so that you can snag pics easy. I dunno..... I have seen them delete pics that had a TOS name but were ok - stupid!
Yeah you're right. Well, that's why I don't post any serious pictures on PB anyway. Better safe than sorry.
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I've never tried it but I know alot of ppl use Flickr and love it
I had photobucket delete one pic on me but yeah it was breaking their TOS but I was still mad about it...oh well.