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Warning before file deletion, or alternative...

Hey, I just have a little suggestion.

I recently had 2 images deleted from my gallery that weren't up to par with the standards I guess. They were photos from my sketchbook. I was in the midst of moving at the time and my scanner was packed, so I took a couple of snapshots and uploaded them so people could see what I was working on.

Well, I get an email saying the pics were deleted.

I understand if it's against the rules to have spiral notbook binding showing in the picture (I personally disagree that this effects the quality of the image, but that's another discussion), but I wanted to point out that there are a couple of pics in my gallery that I don't have backed up because of a computer crash and subsequent computer replacement. Rest assured I am going to back them up now, but the fact that one of these could have been deleted without any warning is really frightening to me. These are pics that I don't even have hardcopies of (having given them away or the like), and I would be so devastated if they had been deleted without my prior knowledge or a grace period in order to back up the files before deletion.

So, in short, I guess my suggestion is that you either implement a warning system to give the gallery owner time to back up the files (or improve them and bring them to standard so that they don't have to be deleted at all), or else send the person a copy of the picture in the email so that they can download it and not risk losing a picture.

A lot of my art is very sentimental, I would hate to see it disappear.

Just a thought.

I wish to add that this has happened to me before, and I still get bummed out when I think of the pictures floating around out there that I will likely never see again...

I always upload a copy on photobucket. Just in case something like this were to happen.

You bring up a very good point, Kynliod. Sometimes things pass through moderation pretty quick, and there should be at least a delay time to do what you say, either adjust the image or talk about it. I can code it up so that an image can't be deleted unless it's been pending for a week or such, etc. It would be much easier to recover from an administration standpoint.

However, to alleviate your fears, we do keep backups ourselves, and are very diligent about them. Here are your sketches. :)

http://www.artspots.com/~babbage/kynliod/climb.jpg
http://www.artspots.com/~babbage/kynliod/corriesketch.jpg

Oh, sweet! You saved them! Hey, thanks for listening.

And just on a positive note, I wanted to point out that this is the best gallery I've used, and pretty much the only one I use at this point. I think it's great that you guys listen to feedback, and respond really rather quickly too. Thanks for all the hard work. =)

I posted to a gallery once (for the life of me, I can't remember which one) that "screened" files as soon as they were tagged for review or deletion. Such a screened file was visible to the moderators and the artist in question, but didn't show up in the recents, the artist's gallery or in thumbnail form anywhere anymore. The file would remain screened until a dialogue was established between the artist and the management, leaving space for appeal or correction.