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Troubles with flickr

Last Sunday, flickr suspended my (PRO) account , saying that it included "a large amount of content marked with the incorrect safety level."  Although I try to moderate my images, I have had messages in the past from flickr telling some of them were wrongly labelled. A list was usually included and the system automatically changed the moderation. Not this time.  When I asked support why that was the case, how I was supposed to physically review nearly 80,000 images(!), and why I couldn't be given a list, I repeatedly received boilerplate responses copy/pasted from some script that didn't answer my questions at all.  The representative dealing with my case specifically quoted those two sections of the flickr's Guide to Safety Levels (nothing else): - Sexually suggestive poses and attire intended to arouse the viewer or that would generally be unacceptable to a general, public audience;  - Full frontal nudity (exposed or visible genitalia, anus, etc…);  Some of th...