I advise against making boards on Pinterest. After years of keeping 2 private boards of pins I don’t generate, they tell me they “may delete one of” my boards. They don’t tell me which. Occasionally I get a note that one of my saved pins has been removed from all user boards because it violates a policy or a demand for removal has been granted. Sometimes they tell me which pins and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they tell me why but I have discovered that it isn’t always accurate but they won’t return it even when they have been informed that there is nothing wrong with the pin in question. Now I am told to review everything I have saved to make sure it doesn’t violate their policies or I may have a board removed- not just the pin but the entire board, without identifying what is even in question. I can’t tell you how much this infuriates me. I have over 10k pins saved on 2 private boards. I only own 2 boards and they are both private- I have not shared them publicly, I don’t share them, and I won’t share them ever; they are compiled by me for me. I now face a potential loss of years of accumulated pins. I have to comb through each board and saved what I can to my device since not every pin is outwardly savable, namely clips, loops, and other animated bits. I truly am annoyed with this latest experience and the inconvenience it has caused me. I can’t even bulk-export/download my pins so this is going to take hours or even days to process. I don’t think I will ever save a pin inside pinterest again because now I know that they may remove an entire board and I have no way of knowing what I may lose. Thank you, pinterest, for the lies and deception and for pushing your job of policy regulation on to me. Thank you, pinterest, for adding to the confusion by removing a picture of a fully clothed person and stating that it violated sexual/pornographic policy when there wasn’t anything sexual about the image. Thank you, pinterest, but no thanks! I may find items of interest hosted on your database, but I will never feel safe about saving anything to your boards ever again for fear that any thing can be removed at any time including an entire board, even if the entire board does not violate policy.
Pinterest removed this for sexual/pornographic reasons. Wrong!!! It’s cosplay and I say it’s viewable by all audiences.
Now they say I need to review what I have, but if this was determined offensive, then anything else is unknowingly at potential risk.
Pinterest may have a nice user-generated database, but because they cannot enforce policy better, everyone is at risk for losing not only pins but entire boards. Does that make me feel safe and wanted? No, it doesn’t.
