metalised

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by metalised 5y ago
It is the facebook page for my blog, https://metalised.wordpress.com which largely exists for the end-of-year best metal album reviews these days. These reviews get cross-posted on the facebook page, and tend to be very popular,
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by metalised 5y ago
You joke, but this is a real concern for me ... even if I do get a person replying here, presumably the hacker used dodgy means of getting access in the first place! how can I definitively prove what I'm saying is true? My main hope is
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by metalised 5y ago
Hi my metal brother, I have nothing to gain from a PR stunt. As you can see from my website, it's a small blog, not a mainstream professional website. But it means a lot to me sentimentally, because it's something I have been work
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by metalised 5y ago
Update: I updated my blog to reflect the discussion taking place here: https://metalised.wordpress.com/2022/01/27/metalised-faceboo... Thank you everyone for your support and vivid discussion. I hope this man
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by metalised 5y ago
There is no "legacy FB page" to join as a participant. That's the problem. The hackers deleted the page. I mentioned it to another poster here, but essentially I tried to inform my subscribers about the hack before the page w
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by metalised 5y ago
what exactly happened to yours then, if I may ask?
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by metalised 5y ago
I'm fairly sure the way they managed to claim ownership in the first place was by 'claiming the page for their business', because no business account was associated with the page. In my case there was no 'business manage
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by metalised 5y ago
Hi dmortin, I have no way of knowing for sure, but I think it was none of that. I think they simply 'claimed' the page, and because it's was a community page with no 'business' associated with it in the account, th
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by metalised 5y ago
I hope so! (both what you say, and that Facebook support actually gets back to me sometime this year!)
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by metalised 5y ago
Thank you for the advice! The problem with this is that, even though the Facebook Page was simply mirroring the content on the blog, most of the interactions with actual bands and fans was via the Facebook page, not the blog. I don't r
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Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
617 points by metalised 5y ago|222 comments
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by metalised 5y ago
$899 Holy c...!
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by metalised 5y ago
It's the same with all of FAANG. It's now been almost two months since my facebook page of 56k users was hacked, and nobody at facebook seems to give a shit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423 I just ga
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by metalised 5y ago
That's what I was hoping about my similar problem with facebook, but alas ... no kind HN denizens have offerred any help yet :) Post is still here if anyone's interested or can help: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by metalised 5y ago
Sadly, I realised this too, when nobody listened to my cry for help here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423 Any chance someone can help me still?
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Ask HN: A scammer claimed ownership of my Facebook page. How do I get it back?
5 points by metalised 5y ago|0 comments
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by metalised 5y ago
Sorry to post here instead of the original post (i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29601130 ), but I saw it too late before discussion was closed. I just wanted to say I enjoyed the youtube link. It's good to s
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by metalised 5y ago
> After all, you don't care if your colleague likes heavy metal while you love rock Blasphemy! Madness! Heavy metal all the way, duh!
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by metalised 5y ago
I hope you still listen to metal though! :)
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Facebook makes it impossible to regain ownership of a hacked page
8 points by metalised 5y ago|1 comments