Several pin-up photographers, models, clothing designers, hair and makeup artists and others who simply like pin-ups have been targeted by anonymous cowards who flag their photos out of spite, jealously, boredom and who knows what other reasons. Why does Facebook allow their system to be abused in this way? I have contacted Facebook several times about this issue, and one member of the Facebook Team even agreed with me that my flagged photo was not in violation of their rules. Normally, all you get back is the standard copy and paste reply about how every report is reviewed and action is taken accordingly. If your photo was removed, its because it was deemed inappropriate. Sorry, but I'm not buying it. I have had everything from head shots to fully clothed images to black-bar-censored images flagged and removed. It doesn't seem to matter to Facebook.
I recently had this image flagged and removed, for reasons that remain unknown to me. Perhaps the self on self violence???
I was glad to see that Facebook is now showing you which of your images has been removed, at least. Then I had the same photo removed again, presumably from my personal profile this time. I got this message from Facebook:
Then the same photo was flagged and removed for a third time, I'm guessing from the fan page I set up after my original page was deleted from the site after just this sort of behavior. I received the following messages:
As you can see, these photos depict nothing of what violates Facebook's policies. Does Facebook care? No. And with the new flagging system, it will be a matter of days before any individual with a personal vendetta could shut you down completely. Why does Facebook give so much power to these individuals? Why don't they support small business owners, instead of punishing them even when they do not violate their rules?
How do large corporations such as Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood manage to keep their fan pages up and running when their images show more skin and are more suggestive then many of the images I've seen flagged? Is it all about the money? What does it cost to be able to post your images on Facebook? If it's your soul, I'll just post them to Flickr.
