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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by kingcharles » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:33 PM UTC

exikyut wrote: post #441

kingcharles wrote: post #440

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It's worth a try, thanks :) The bank (Square) issue is that I ordered something online, FedEx screwed up the delivery, it got returned to merchant, but merchant does not respond. I asked bank for chargeback, but they can't do one as the package got delivered (back to the merchant). Their support script only allows chargebacks when there is no delivery at all. They tried to get me to persuade FedEx to change the packa…

Now I'm curious to find out how it works out. That comment was from a few years ago so the poster may be relatively distant to Tumblr nowadays and it might take a few additional people-hops (if it doesn't fall through) to get anywhere. I also wonder if old/deactivated non-public account data is held indefinitely (eg, private messages)... it probably is... Regarding Stripe, wow, I admittedly didn't quite read the name…

Not Stripe - Square. I get the two mixed up also. Square is now Block, but their banking at least is still called Square.

I sent an unsolicited email to the person above, and was polite about asking, but no reply yet :)

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by SpelingBeeChamp » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 10:13 AM UTC

cloudking wrote: post #231

jdhendrickson wrote: post #56

Mea Culpa I'm in the industry. I knew we should have had backups. She is brilliant but not technical and while the backups would have been expensive and difficult due to size, I should have built multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated. To be clear we were legacy G-suite users and have converted to paying customers, so it was a free service while this happened, and is…

Since you are paid customers you should escalate your issue through Google Workspace support https://support.google.com/a/answer/1047213?hl=en Insist that your issue be escalated to an internal bug so that it is properly triaged. Even if the videos were deleted as part of the suspension, it's highly likely that there are still multiple backups and cached versions in Google's systems. They should be able to help you r…

Fulltime YouTuber here. Just as one datapoint, I was recently [very] pleasantly surprised to learn that YouTube was able to restore a video that I had accidentally deleted. It went back to being live as if nothing had happened—though my contacting support was admittedly right after the deletion happened.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by exikyut » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 10:33 AM UTC

kingcharles wrote: post #451

exikyut wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I'm curious to find out how it works out. That comment was from a few years ago so the poster may be relatively distant to Tumblr nowadays and it might take a few additional people-hops (if it doesn't fall through) to get anywhere. I also wonder if old/deactivated non-public account data is held indefinitely (eg, private messages)... it probably is... Regarding Stripe, wow, I admittedly didn't quite read the name…

Not Stripe - Square. I get the two mixed up also. Square is now Block, but their banking at least is still called Square. I sent an unsolicited email to the person above, and was polite about asking, but no reply yet :)

Oooh. Humble thanks, I did indeed get the two confused. There was a recent post talking about how iPhones will be able to pretend they're payment terminals (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183), with Stripe in the position of major partner, and Square as the unimpressed incumbent that had just had their core competency made redundant. That kind of backs out my point somewhat then heh. *Moves Stripe back to "probably ok"*

The comment I linked incidentally happened to be (understandably) stuck in my head, but some bumbling around and experimentation with Algolia for a few minutes (trying keywords like "works at", "engineer" and "dev") also found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700627, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924580, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928349, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701499, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815847, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971725, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587191, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728531. It's quite possible none of these are relevant or useful; I also just thought of https://github.com/search?q=tumblr&type=users, which surfaces an interesting level of signal right on page 1, and this is not even mentioning LinkedIn, notwithstanding that site's caveat of "oh no" vs "likely most direct solution to problem" :)

(Now to work through this small pile of unrelated interesting things that also mysteriously opened themselves over the past few minutes. Welp. All good :D)

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by torstenvl » Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 10:29 PM UTC

kingcharles wrote: post #450

torstenvl wrote: post #403

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Thanks! For the things that do require human review, I wonder what the best way is to scale that. It actually might be a potential business opportunity. Gig economy social media moderation. Pay $50 and YouTube contracts out with a company for $40 to pay a subcontractor $30 to spend an hour reviewing your appeal and account history and making a recommendation. It has an icky protection racket feel to it and would ince…

And while the quality of random gig economy contractors would be pretty poor, it certainly could not be worse than no support at all as they are bound to make the correct determinations some of the time.

Maybe some kind of consensus protocol?