deleted24315/deleted - 08-24-08

Gary had his account deleted on Sunday August 24th 2008 without notification from anyone on photoSIG. We are not sure why they chose to delete Gary's account since he did not have access to it. Gary was under suspension for agreeing with a few of the words first posted on this website.

All the comments we have read that he posted in a open forum thread started by Sheena were respectful. He did not ask to have his account deleted as Robert had done.
It was just removed with no clear motive. Only people reading this website's contents and who know Gary can be the judge as to why it was summarily deleted.
Only the person who did it as well knows why. It was a very cruel thing to do to Gary during this time in his life.
I was told his account was removed when he posted a email exchange with the site administration.
It still did not explain why he was not being treated fairly and had his account suspended.

The frozen account had just a few pictures in the collection, one being his dearly departed wife Ali. Everyone in the photoSIG administration knew Gary's had spent the last months comforting his wife as she was dying of cancer. He spent many hours with her in Hospice and was with her when she passed on a little more than a month ago. The man has gone through great pain this summer watching his soul mate and friend losing the battle that ravages of cancer cause. That made no difference to the person or persons who chose to delete his old account. I wonder if Willis knew?

He dared to agree with this site was his crime. It is beyond me how some one could do that to a person after what Gary has been through, but it is the reality many have been talking about for some time about photoSIG and the administration. I am sure someone had a reason, I wish they would have at least emailed Gary telling him they planned on doing it. Seems heartless to just delete his account without warning him or telling him it was going to be done. A site member since 2002.

So next time before you speak or say something in a open forum on photoSIG think about it. Free respectful speech is not always welcome, not even in a open forum post. It would seem Gary's account was deleted out of pure spite. We can see no other logical reason someone would have removed it without telling Gary. He has been vocal about being suspended but to my knowledge he has not been running around bad mouthing photoSIG  except in his blog. I guess that is against  photoSIG's TOS but I could not locate it in any of the terms.