Have myspace deleted another one of us?

tempest devyne · #1 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:00 AM

Is it just me not having my first cup of tea today....or have myspace deleted the Legendary Captain Chaos's page??!!

Candee Handful, Ruby Blue, Dali, Mistress of Lov'n'Lashes (who I have to say mate - just seen you've put all same photos back on, so I wouldn't be surprised if...) all deleted without warning....and now possibly the LCC!

I think we need to get our heads round minimising damage or warning people. I know Beatrix Von Bourbon wrote on her blog the other week about she's not going to have any pics of her in pasties and I think she's right.

I've also gone all neurotic and have cut and pasted all the unique urls (eg. MySpace.com - Tempest Devyne - 39 - Female - UK - www.myspace.com/tempestdevyne) for all my myspace friends into a word doc I've saved - because I've taken so long networking and adding friends, I'm not sure if I suddenly lost all 500+ how many other than my top friends I'd be able to remember. And this way if they delete me, I can work my way through my list of urls re-inviting people to be my friends.

Hopefully I'm just having a funny turn and he's perhaps just changed his screen name or something....

decadentgent · #2 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:09 AM

I have checked other people's profiles where I know he is a friend or in the top friend's list and he was in mine. It seems the Captain has vanished!

Bloody myspace!

DG

tempest devyne · #3 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:23 AM

I'd like to picture him flying of into space triumphant like Superman or Nathan from Heroes when reading your "he's vanished"

grrrr myspace

Ok we'll just have to wait for him to re-invent himself into a new persona and then rally round the myspace burlesque troupes to get him his friends back

tempest devyne · #4 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:30 AM

aaaah I have just been informed that it's ok - he isn't another victim of the myspace police - he's deleted himself so he can concentrate on the Stoke on Trent Burlesque

that's a relief

so, in efforts to assist (though I'm preaching to the converted, unless we've got newbies)

www.myspace.com/stokeontrentburlesque

www.scarletfeverburlesque.co.uk

however, everyone else - be careful with pics just wearing pasties or showing too much flesh, if you don't want the hassle of reinstating yourself after deletion....

phew, too much excitement - I'm off for a cup of camomile

Kitty Van Ghoul · #5 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:55 AM

I was speaking to Ryvita Von Cheese on Saturday and her night in Leeds The Wet Spot had its MySpace taken down too

tempest devyne · #6 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kitty Van Ghoul

I was speaking to Ryvita Von Cheese on Saturday and her night in Leeds The Wet Spot had its MySpace taken down too

oh yes I'd forgotten about that one - I love the tag she's given the page now "deleted but not defeated"

yes, anyone interested in burlesque (and if you're not, you've come to the wrong website, either come on in or move along) please add or re-add:
www.myspace.com/thewetspot_burlesqueleeds

decadentgent · #7 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 09:06 AM

Tempest do you still not have a copy of Bizarre?

They seel it at my newsagent round the corner, I can pick you up a copy if you'd like?

DG

x

tempest devyne · #8 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 09:18 AM

What a sweetie you are.

No I don't, but I'm using it as a reason to get out of the house tomorrow (it's a fab incentive). If the WHSmiths in Shrewsbury don't have one tomorrow then I might well take you up on the offer.

Mind you, you could probably buy extra copies and make a mint selling them at extortionate rates to burlesque lovers, you could be the Flash Harry of Bizarre magazines "hello there ladies, want to see what I've got here inside my coat...." (maybe not)

RedSarah still didn't have one yesterday either

Beatrix Von Bourbon · #9 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 11:12 AM

I'm so confused about this behaviour by MySpace. The Ts&Cs..

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Rule 1
"Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent yourself as under 18."

...This is a mistake that one could make without knowing it. Being 20 and listing yourself as 86 is ok, being 20 and listing yourself as 17 is not.

Rule 2
"The MySpace Services are for the personal use of Members and may be used for promotional purposes as well, but direct commercial endeavors may only be used if they are specifically endorsed or authorized by MySpace. MySpace reserves the right to remove commercial content in its sole discretion."

..."Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of unauthorized solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice or explanation and may result in termination of Membership privileges."

...I don't think any burly performers are doing this.

The MOST RIDICULOUS one of all - Term 7.1
"MySpace may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content that in the sole judgment of MySpace violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity, or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. MySpace assumes no responsibility for monitoring the MySpace Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time MySpace chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the MySpace Services, MySpace nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content."

...blame the moderators. It's probably one mod in particular who's taking down the burly pages. I assume it's owing to something specific to the deleted users's profile page/pics, otherwise the big admin/mod would search the site for burly performers and delete all of them... that is, unless they have to wait for someone to complain about the content of a particular page before they are permitted to delete it?

Covering their own backs in the Ts&Cs, stating they can delete a page for NO REASON is sickening; that's freaking lawyers for you.

And as for content...

Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of MySpace:

8.3 exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;

8.4 contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;

8.7 constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

8.14 includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;

We've all got to remember that 'nude' is quite an ambiguous term. Dictionary.com offers this definition:

naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.

...so nudity need not be about the bodyparts on display. Nudity can merely be the LACK of clothing, not the INCLUSION of nipples etc.

I'm trying to be respectful in my use of the site. Let's see how much longer I get away with having my profile on there for.

Eesh.

Fleur du Mal · #10 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 11:19 AM

I had a worry at one point when I thought they had taken down my avatar - I have no idea whether they did or not because the picture is still there, but it won't display if I set it as my main picture ... Apart from that, I haven't had any hassle from myspace - and lots of my pictures show a lot of skin, so I'm not sure how long this will last.

I have a photographer in my friends list who has been deleted four times now by my count alone - it may be more - but he keeps on coming back!