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metalised

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About metalised

Mr Metalised. Curator (and true owner of) facebook.com/metalised.net and https://metalised.wordpress.com/ (previously metalised.net)

Email: mr dot metalised at gmail dot com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #30106583

    It is the facebook page for my blog, https://metalised.wordpress.com which largely exists for the end-of-year best metal album reviews these days. These reviews get cross-posted on…

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    Comment #30105187

    You joke, but this is a real concern for me ... even if I do get a person replying here, presumably the hacker used dodgy means of getting access in the first place! how can I defi…

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    Comment #30105116

    Hi my metal brother, I have nothing to gain from a PR stunt. As you can see from my website, it's a small blog, not a mainstream professional website. But it means a lot to me sent…

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    Comment #30104693

    Update: I updated my blog to reflect the discussion taking place here: https://metalised.wordpress.com/2022/01/27/metalised-faceboo... Thank you everyone for your support and vivid…

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    Comment #30104654

    There is no "legacy FB page" to join as a participant. That's the problem. The hackers deleted the page. I mentioned it to another poster here, but essentially I tried to inform my…

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    Comment #30104448

    what exactly happened to yours then, if I may ask?

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    Comment #30103706

    I'm fairly sure the way they managed to claim ownership in the first place was by 'claiming the page for their business', because no business account was associated with the page. …

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    Comment #30103654

    Hi dmortin, I have no way of knowing for sure, but I think it was none of that. I think they simply 'claimed' the page, and because it's was a community page with no 'business' ass…

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    Comment #30103554

    I hope so! (both what you say, and that Facebook support actually gets back to me sometime this year!)

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    Comment #30103530

    Thank you for the advice! The problem with this is that, even though the Facebook Page was simply mirroring the content on the blog, most of the interactions with actual bands and …

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    Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users

    As an update to [0] and [1], the scammers have now completely deleted my page of 50k subscribers. I am devastated. 10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff o…

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    Comment #29974612

    $899 Holy c...!

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    Comment #29972624

    It's the same with all of FAANG. It's now been almost two months since my facebook page of 56k users was hacked, and nobody at facebook seems to give a shit: https://news.ycombinat…

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    Comment #29972605

    That's what I was hoping about my similar problem with facebook, but alas ... no kind HN denizens have offerred any help yet :) Post is still here if anyone's interested or can hel…

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    Comment #29926432

    Sadly, I realised this too, when nobody listened to my cry for help here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423 Any chance someone can help me still?

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    Ask HN: A scammer claimed ownership of my Facebook page. How do I get it back?

    About a month ago, a malicious actor filed and succeeded in making an ownership claim on my Facebook page. I had given some background to this previously on HN, a few weeks back [0…

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    Comment #29867237

    Sorry to post here instead of the original post (i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29601130 ), but I saw it too late before discussion was closed. I just wanted to say I en…

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    Comment #29867188

    > After all, you don't care if your colleague likes heavy metal while you love rock Blasphemy! Madness! Heavy metal all the way, duh!

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    Comment #29867169

    I hope you still listen to metal though! :)

  20. story
    Facebook makes it impossible to regain ownership of a hacked page

    I have been the owner of a facebook page [0], which I created more than 10 years ago, and has built into a nice community (focused around heavy metal) in that time. It is the siste…