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femmelf

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How do I get something taken down from a website.
« on: April 16, 2013, 12:00:07 pm »
My ninth grade English teacher thought it was a great idea to force her students to post poems on this site called Poetry.com. This was a terrible idea.

Years later, that still comes up when you google my name. It isn't helping me get a job. It's nothing too bad, but I want it gone.

I don't remember what email I used way back in high school. Is there any way to get these stupid things taken down.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2013, 12:11:15 pm »
Send a nice email to the site administrator.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2013, 09:02:57 pm »
It's times like these I'm glad I have a ridiculously generic name.

What Kaijyuu said.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2013, 07:32:42 am »
Send a DMCA notice to the site lol.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 02:40:12 pm »
Quote from: freeformschooler on April 16, 2013, 09:02:57 pm
It's times like these I'm glad I have a ridiculously generic name.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2013, 09:45:56 pm »
I wish there was a way to make every teen poem disappear. Not only for your sake, but for the sake of humanity.

I suggest signing up with another account, and talking to an administrator from there if that website has some kind of a forum system or a private message system or something.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2013, 02:07:40 am »
Honestly I think job hirers pay too much attention to the internet.

It is easy to essentially murder someone's job application just by saying terrible but untrue things about them on the internet.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2013, 04:57:32 pm »
a) Send a nice email to Poetry.com's webmaster (or other good contact address), asking them politely to take the content down.  Their Terms of Service are ridiculously territorial in terms of copyright (basically by posting content you're giving them all rights to everything with the possible exception of your firstborn child), so I'd steer clear of getting mired in that particular swamp if at all possible.  Nice email with an explanation will probably be far more successful than strong email with mentions of copyright.

b) Once they've removed your content, you can get Google (and I assume other search engines) to update their records - Google has a help page (http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/faq/) which gives some info.  Other search engines will probably have similar processes.

c) If it's still coming up a while after you've done all the above, it probably means your content's been copied/mirrored somewhere else.  Hunt it down and get it taken down.  Then update search engines again.  Rinse.  Lather.  Repeat.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2013, 05:08:05 am »
Oh man. That sucks. Luckily my family was very weird about teachers publishing my name, work or pictures on the webz. One teacher tried to take my picture for the class website and I refused. She snapped my pic anyway real quick and put me up and was nearly fired. I was transferred from the class and all sites were taken down.

Are you sure you aren't worrying too much about something silly? Do they really know it's your poem? Is it really that bad?
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2013, 12:52:26 pm »
If none of that works, you can get a lawyer to write a Cease & Desist letter and send it to them. The objective in this is not to engage them in legal action, but to scare them into taking it down. This will cost you, though.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on April 21, 2013, 12:52:26 pm
If none of that works, you can get a lawyer to write a Cease & Desist letter and send it to them. The objective in this is not to engage them in legal action, but to scare them into taking it down. This will cost you, though.
Possible, but that sounds... laughable. :P

"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am »
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2013, 11:47:59 am »
Quote from: miauw62 on April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.

Oh, right. That line seems exactly like what an American would say. Wacky Americans and their trigger-happy lawyers :P

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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2013, 12:47:01 pm »
Quote from: miauw62 on April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.

Quote from: miauw62 on April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.

That's defamation of character, on a national scale. WE'LL SUE!
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Re: How do I get something taken down from a website.
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2013, 05:29:58 am »
Quote from: nenjin on April 22, 2013, 12:47:01 pm
Quote from: miauw62 on April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.

Quote from: miauw62 on April 22, 2013, 11:21:33 am
Quote from: Leatra on April 21, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
"TAKE MY POEM DOWN OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS!"

Sounds like an average American to me :P
* Miauw is Belgian.

That's defamation of character, on a national scale. WE'LL SUE!

We only do it because we hate your freedoms! Our EuroSocialismShariaLaw will come for you! First your poetry, then your guns!
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