There was some back and forth, but for you returning users, I will be able to restore some threads and posts. There's no automated process for this, I have to do every post by hand, so we're only looking at restoring the major threads or important posts. We'll revisit the issue later for other things. If there are any specific threads that you want me to restore, please reply to the PM or post here.
Heck, every day I wake up, I don't go out and kill people - and I'm rewarded by not having legions of enemies! Amazing how that works.
Although ninjas are experts of camouflage and concealment, they are actually horrible liars. This means that no matter where you are, you can shout out, “Are there any ninjas here?” and if there’s a ninja within earshot, he’ll be compelled to respond.
We've heard back from the legal team, and because you did not explicitly Accept the transfer, the deletion of your posts are threads are permanent. I will not be able to restore them. This is in direct accordance with the EU Privacy laws, and not based upon any decision of us or even our owners. Unfortunately, EU Privacy laws are very strict, and we are required to comply with them.
It's not what either of us wanted to hear, but it is unfortunately what it is.
I've PM'd each of you regarding your username, and any old threads you wish to recreate, etc.
so you nuked over 10 years of contribution to some topics like our evaluation card thread without any backups and without any warnings prior to this? like pm or email. i cant express how stupid that is and how much data is lost in that process.
and all that because of ******* greed???? im done here, everything is lost
We've heard back from the legal team, and because you did not explicitly Accept the transfer, the deletion of your posts are threads are permanent.
First off I know this is not your (the moderators) personal fault, so my rant is directed at the people who run this site.
I'm the first one to say that EU data laws are made by paranoid idiots, but it's not the EU law that caused this mess. You sent an automated email from 'curse' that said something about an account getting suspended. And that's all you did to inform us about this serious issue. This email probably went directly to the spam folder of many people. When I see an email from an unknown origin in my spam folder that says something about my account getting suspended and me needing to verify information then I just delete it immediately. This is what most sane people would do since it is almost always some kind of phishing attempt. I didn't even know this site was run by a company called Curse and I don't care about it either.
There would have been many reasonable ways to ensure everyone gets informed properly. You could have automatically logged out people who were affected by this and then asked them on login whether they would agree to have their data transferred. Problem solved. But it seems you simply didn't care and now tens of thousands of posts and even more importantly many carefully crafted threads are gone forever.
This is unacceptable and that's why personally I'm done with this forum. I did create a Twitch account when I had to even though I don't use it and just a few months later everything I posted gets deleted because of some other bs. What's next? I don't want to find out.
I'd like my account to be restored: previous username: StreexGeist.
Secondly, I've been spending my time for over one year on the spirits forum, before and after UW and Bant section were merged. I've been the one writing down the primer for the UW Spirit section, it's more than 23 pages of a word file that I still own but that I'm not sharing again because I'm incredibly pissed with what happened.
This is one of the crazyest things ever seen on an internet site, hoping mods will be able to fix this mess. And I know mods have no responsability on this so I'm not angry with them, but as many other pointed out, I've received an email from "CURSE" in my spam folder 3 weeks ago,just saw it now. This is not the way to inform users of such a disastrous change about to happen.
You really should have forseen this... This may be the most embarassing thing I've seen on a forum as big as this, and that's coming from someone who's active on tons of them, including having modded and ran some myself.
If you find a way to restore accounts I'd love if you could 'PM me individually' and lmk. Later.
Well that's not a nice suprise.
I'd like to restore my account. I believe my screenname was Sylphnir? Not sure tbh I changed it somewhere last year.
The account name might still be Azurhawk if that helps.
We've heard back from the legal team, and because you did not explicitly Accept the transfer, the deletion of your posts are threads are permanent. I will not be able to restore them. This is in direct accordance with the EU Privacy laws, and not based upon any decision of us or even our owners. Unfortunately, EU Privacy laws are very strict, and we are required to comply with them.
It's not what either of us wanted to hear, but it is unfortunately what it is.
I've PM'd each of you regarding your username, and any old threads you wish to recreate, etc.
so you nuked over 10 years of contribution to some topics like our evaluation card thread without any backups and without any warnings prior to this? like pm or email. i cant express how stupid that is and how much data is lost in that process.
and all that because of ******* greed???? im done here, everything is lost
It's not about greed. We were required by law to do this. The EU digital privacy laws are quite clear on the matter; without your explicit permission we are not able to keep any of your personal data. That's why there were pop-ups and banners warning you that you needed to grant us explicit permission or face account deletion well before this happened. We started the warning messages on December 17, weeks before the deadline.
Believe me, if it were up to us we would have never done this, but legally we had no choice. We're doing everything we can within the limits of the law to make this as painless for everyone as we can.
That's why there were pop-ups and banners warning you that you needed to grant us explicit permission or face account deletion well before this happened. We started the warning messages on December 17, weeks before the deadline.
I definitely had no banners or pop ups or anything like that and I posted with my old account hours before it was deleted. Maybe these warnings were blocked by my adblocker, but since most browsers have adblockers already built in these days that should have been expected. Got no notification/pm/message on this forum either. All I got was an email from Curse that didn't even mention mtgsalvation and that went directly to my spam folder.
Seeing how many important threads and users were deleted who now want their accounts back you quite obvisously failed to deliver the message properly. The EU laws may have been the reason why you had to delete the accounts, but not communicating the problem properly was your fault and only your fault.
EDIT: Still have the emails in my spam folder and it never mentioned mtgsalvation, not in the header and not in the mail itself. It's ridiculous, the email just reads 'consent required for uninterrupted service' sent from 'The Curse Team'. That sounds like the very definition of a spammy phishing mail if you don't know who 'The Curse Team' is and my email program (Thunderbird) acted accordingly and put it where such emails belong.
I get the 'What's been happening at MTG Salvation' emails from...actual MTG Salvation... every once in a while and these don't go to my spam folder. Would it have been so hard to use the same system to deliver the warning about the EU privacy laws/account deletion?
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I didn't get any pop ups on website. Didn't think to check my email. Sorry for inconvenience =(
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There was some back and forth, but for you returning users, I will be able to restore some threads and posts. There's no automated process for this, I have to do every post by hand, so we're only looking at restoring the major threads or important posts. We'll revisit the issue later for other things. If there are any specific threads that you want me to restore, please reply to the PM or post here.
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Although ninjas are experts of camouflage and concealment, they are actually horrible liars. This means that no matter where you are, you can shout out, “Are there any ninjas here?” and if there’s a ninja within earshot, he’ll be compelled to respond.
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so you nuked over 10 years of contribution to some topics like our evaluation card thread without any backups and without any warnings prior to this? like pm or email. i cant express how stupid that is and how much data is lost in that process.
and all that because of ******* greed???? im done here, everything is lost
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First off I know this is not your (the moderators) personal fault, so my rant is directed at the people who run this site.
I'm the first one to say that EU data laws are made by paranoid idiots, but it's not the EU law that caused this mess. You sent an automated email from 'curse' that said something about an account getting suspended. And that's all you did to inform us about this serious issue. This email probably went directly to the spam folder of many people. When I see an email from an unknown origin in my spam folder that says something about my account getting suspended and me needing to verify information then I just delete it immediately. This is what most sane people would do since it is almost always some kind of phishing attempt. I didn't even know this site was run by a company called Curse and I don't care about it either.
There would have been many reasonable ways to ensure everyone gets informed properly. You could have automatically logged out people who were affected by this and then asked them on login whether they would agree to have their data transferred. Problem solved. But it seems you simply didn't care and now tens of thousands of posts and even more importantly many carefully crafted threads are gone forever.
This is unacceptable and that's why personally I'm done with this forum. I did create a Twitch account when I had to even though I don't use it and just a few months later everything I posted gets deleted because of some other bs. What's next? I don't want to find out.
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Secondly, I've been spending my time for over one year on the spirits forum, before and after UW and Bant section were merged. I've been the one writing down the primer for the UW Spirit section, it's more than 23 pages of a word file that I still own but that I'm not sharing again because I'm incredibly pissed with what happened.
This is one of the crazyest things ever seen on an internet site, hoping mods will be able to fix this mess. And I know mods have no responsability on this so I'm not angry with them, but as many other pointed out, I've received an email from "CURSE" in my spam folder 3 weeks ago,just saw it now. This is not the way to inform users of such a disastrous change about to happen.
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If you find a way to restore accounts I'd love if you could 'PM me individually' and lmk. Later.
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I'd like to restore my account. I believe my screenname was Sylphnir? Not sure tbh I changed it somewhere last year.
The account name might still be Azurhawk if that helps.
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By the way, the only e-mail from Curse in my inbox is an ad for the "alienware monthly melee" from 2016.
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It's not about greed. We were required by law to do this. The EU digital privacy laws are quite clear on the matter; without your explicit permission we are not able to keep any of your personal data. That's why there were pop-ups and banners warning you that you needed to grant us explicit permission or face account deletion well before this happened. We started the warning messages on December 17, weeks before the deadline.
Believe me, if it were up to us we would have never done this, but legally we had no choice. We're doing everything we can within the limits of the law to make this as painless for everyone as we can.
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I definitely had no banners or pop ups or anything like that and I posted with my old account hours before it was deleted. Maybe these warnings were blocked by my adblocker, but since most browsers have adblockers already built in these days that should have been expected. Got no notification/pm/message on this forum either. All I got was an email from Curse that didn't even mention mtgsalvation and that went directly to my spam folder.
Seeing how many important threads and users were deleted who now want their accounts back you quite obvisously failed to deliver the message properly. The EU laws may have been the reason why you had to delete the accounts, but not communicating the problem properly was your fault and only your fault.
EDIT: Still have the emails in my spam folder and it never mentioned mtgsalvation, not in the header and not in the mail itself. It's ridiculous, the email just reads 'consent required for uninterrupted service' sent from 'The Curse Team'. That sounds like the very definition of a spammy phishing mail if you don't know who 'The Curse Team' is and my email program (Thunderbird) acted accordingly and put it where such emails belong.
I get the 'What's been happening at MTG Salvation' emails from...actual MTG Salvation... every once in a while and these don't go to my spam folder. Would it have been so hard to use the same system to deliver the warning about the EU privacy laws/account deletion?
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For the record, the last mail I got from MTG Salvation is dated 4/5/2017
I did have a mail from the Curse Media Team / Fandom from a month ago, but I never saw it. The mail made no explicit reference to MTG Salvation.