Okay, we’ve seen this happening to others but nothing could prepare us for this. Facebook has just informed us that someone (for obvious reasons we’re not sharing his/her name) reported our FB page for violating their rights. Which is laughable because we have not violated any rights whatsoever. But let’s take things from the beginning.
A couple of hours ago, while trying to log in to our FB account, we found a nice surprise. Someone – for no apparent reasons – reported our page and Facebook decided to suddenly remove or disable access to it. While the company did provide us with an email, we have not heard back from that someone as what was the story/image/whatever that triggered this violation.
This obviously is nothing new. A lot of gaming/tech blogs have faced such issues, something that shows the biggest weakness of Facebook. Therefore – and until our page has been restored – we strongly suggest following us on Twitter (you can find a link to it at the top right).
Still, it does make us wonder why that someone did not contact us? Hell, you can find our email at the top menu. Why that someone simply reported the FB page? Why haven’t we received a warning about this whole thing? For example, when Bethesda believed that we had violated its rights – about a story featuring a leaked video of Skyrim – it contacted us in the blink of an eye. Same thing happened with CD Projekt RED about a leaked video of The Witcher 3.
We’ve contacted both the person that reported our content and Facebook about this mess.
We’ll be sure to update the story with the responses we receive.
[UPDATE]
After further investigation, Dianne ManyRibs – the one who reported our page – is a member of DSO Clan. DSOGaming is not affiliated with DSO Clan. DSO Clan is abusing the system as the reported page is the official FB page of DSOGaming.com and not one of DSO Clan. This situation saddens us as we’ve been really open to the gaming community thus far. It also saddens us as there are still people around trying to ‘promote’ their pages by issuing false reports.
We’ve contacted both Dianne ManyRibs and Facebook and will keep you posted.
[UPDATE #2]
Facebook’s Community Operations, Xavier, has contacted us about this mess. Here is his response:
“When we receive a proper claim of intellectual property rights infringement, we promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing content. Unfortunately, we will be unable to restore this content unless we receive a direct request from this party. If you believe that this claim has been made under false pretenses, we recommend that you contact a lawyer or your local law enforcement agency and discuss this issue with them.”
In short, Facebook did not investigate at all that report before accepting it and marking it as valid. Ironically, Facebook has not done its homework (or should we say they got bored and decided to pull the plug without investigating at all) as:
a) DSOGaming.com features a completely different content from DSO Clan. Moreover, DSOGaming is not affiliated in any way with DSO Clan.
b) The Facebook page of DSOGaming.com is not associated with the one of DSO Clan.
c) All content and images of the DSOGaming.com FB are not associated with DSO Clan, and are our intellectual properties.
d) All content and images of the DSOGaming Facebook page are different from those found in the DSO Clan Facebook page.
e) A different Facebook fan page has no right to take down other pages and it’s Facebook’s responsibility to investigate such reports before taking down pages.
The only downside of this is that some readers and modders may not be able to reach us (we strongly suggest using the contact email. There is a reason why we’ve included it at the top menu). Thankfully, more and more users are starting using Twitter so things will get better (for reaching us). We’ve replied to Xavier’s email and if FB does not restore our page, we may launch a new one.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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What a right bunch of tossers, actually that’s more towards Facebook. I remember some weeks ago my sister and previous to that my mum was warned her account would be suspended because she had too many friend requests. Wtf? So because someone sends you a friend request that’s bad. Good luck getting it sorted!
Jealus bastards…only a stupid blogger could do that or A High ‘rank’ company that cant beat this site and is lower lvl than dsog
everybody lets report dianne’s profile for inappropriate contents sharing, with big numbers fb will terminate her account. lets teach this bastard a lesson
Bunch of communists. I feel sorry for the people who say they’re still excited for Oculus.
I am still excited about Oculus…until I am reminded that they are owned by FB and ‘poof’…all excitement gone in an instant!!!
Why not? Has facebook shoved in their crap?
Its like carmack said at some point you gonna have to go with the giants like facebook and google. I highly doubt the alternatives will get anywhere near as much money as oculus for research and development.
rumor has it a bunch of console fanboys who are anti pc gaming from reddit have something to do with it. yet another reason reddit is the worse place on the net.
yep, update proves it. there a trolling group.
I don’t do Facebook. You shouldn’t, either.
You know what? FU fb,FU big brother!!! 😀
fuk’em all,fb is a mess and will remain a shitty social mess,that sugargangbang (aka m.zuck) deserve nothing.
Maybe they read all the mentally ill, deranged fanboys in your disqus comments telling people to kill themselves, like amir and dakan45.
Buddy ,i told you ,we can take you as a brotha if you stop with the retardness ,it stopped being funny like 80 comments ago.
My PC > yours. Come at me breh.
My PC better than yours…you ‘mirin?!
RIP Zyzz
“My PC > yours”
too bad you don’t even have one, even if you do, then you don’t know how to use it
Yeah that stupid mother f*cker dont know what a Pc is.
To hell with you Xtreme Derp, you F*CKN CLOWN!!
take a look at my epic comments.
new name again ? :))
this one is much better dude
flat out wrong called me ducky, i changed it proving him that it doesnt offend me, he stopped using it. pff typical.
Your pc is paperweight you got all that power and what you do with it? You spend your time defend sony’s trashstation 4.
Turn off your pc you moron, you just waste too much electricity while you trolling people in n4g.
oh please this f@ggot has nothing better to do than call people mentlaly ill fanboys and dumb as bricks and delusional. He is a troll.
Dude plz!!! stop your bullshit….
What bullshit? I speak the truth.
GTFO you F*CKN RETARD!
Please ban this IDIOT!
Wow
case and point you are a troll.
you speak bullsht and you go around calling people mentally ill fanboys, delusional and always wrong, so yeah would you kindly “kill yourself” thats not such a bad thing after all.
die fucker. i bet your one of the DSO Clan people
Hey facebook peeps are you reading this? Look at the kind of comments DSO lets run free on their blog.
lol. shit face 12yo kid
I rest my case.
http://i.imgur.com/O19VJxC.gif
Yeah why dont they ban this f*ckn moron!
says the guy who posts “mentally ill fanboy and delusional, dumb as bricks and always wrong in all his posts”
PM me somehow their names and I will use some of my hacking skillz to see what I can do!
I can understand the “need” for FB with promoting the site, but I wish you guys would just roll with Twitter. Maybe even Google + too. Google + is full of PC people and might get a few more people to the site.
Screw whoever the “DSO Clan” is too
FB ? what it is?
Don’t Give A fk about Facebook… DSOGaming IS MY home page :p
bastards
Screw it all.
Just shift to reddit.
/r/pcmasterrace gloriously welcomes you.
wtf facebook ? screwing with oculus and now screwing with our site
yeah can we bomb that shi*place to hell or someting mate ? ..LOL
please, check you twitter account settings – i recieve only 1 tweet at day about new posts. can you make tweets about any new post at this site?
WTF, what dipshits, wouldent be to suprised if it’s some retarded console fag ala Sony fanboys behind it!
Well this is the main site for me and I don´t use that thing…I know you can get more people by using/promote your site there so hope you can use it again.
Now, about the comments below…I need a 8k display for the epic “Facepalm” image I need to put in here…Grow up guys…seriously, some of you make me feel embarrassed when I read your posts…
F’ you, Dianne.
What F*CKERS!
Well to hell with crapbook, it sucks in every damn way..I have allways hated it with a passion as it’s retards paradise there huh. I mean all those private people that says really s*itty things like I make a cake and now I will make 10 more cakes bla bla.. F*CKN IDIOTS .. LOL!
F Facebook
It’s really no loss. You should cut your ties to Facebook, consider yourself lucky, and move on to something broader.
Like the web. You know. Here.
DSO Clan is officially “DSO Gaming Clan, LLC” and from what I can tell, was founded (and copyrighted) in 2008. I don’t know when this DSOGaming began, but from what I can tell it was 2011. And no, I’m not a member of DSO Clan – I never even heard of them until now – but it wasn’t hard to do a little research before jumping to conclusions and calling that Dianne person out publicly. In fact, you better watch out or they may send a cease and desist on your domain.
Glad your brought this. As you clearly wrote, it’s “DSO Gaming Clan”. It is NOT “DSOGaming Clan” or simply “DSOGaming”. When it comes to copyrights, a simple ” ” makes one hell of difference. To put it simple: They have EVERY right for “DSO Clan” and “DSO Gaming Clan”. Hell, we love clans and we would never make anything as stupid as ‘taking/stealing’ a clan’s name. However, they don’t have rights for “DSOGaming”. Not only that, but our website is called “DSOGaming – Dark Side Of Gaming” which – once again – is completely different from “DSO Clan”. That comes straight from our lawyer by the way so in other words, they don’t have a case at all when it comes to “DSOGaming” or our website.
Again, I’m not affiliated with them, and I certainly hope you get this sorted out. I was just trying to explain why from Facebook’s perspective there can be an issue. Of course you can fight it and you’d be in the right, but whether that’s worth it, I doubt it.
Which is precisely why we wanted to sort things out with Dianne before writing a story about it. He simply ignored our email (hell, he didn’t even tell us the reasons behind the report so we had to investigate it ourselves to figure it out) so we went public with this. Naturally, we can drag this to the courts but that won’t benefit both us and them (them since they don’t have a case and may very well impact them negatively as a clan and us because it’s basically a waste of time). And regarding Facebook, they are full aware of the copyrights rules and should know that “DSO Gaming Clan” is not the same with “DSOGamng”.
Screw FB – I don’t use it, & this nonsense reinforces my decision. Instead of setting up a new page you should withdraw from them. If enough people would leave FB (looking at the people who complain about them, but still use them) maybe they’d develop better policies & practices.