Loie (9730540) wrote:i thought it was just the forums that didn't allow discussing certain things like politics, religion, etc (?)

It had nothing to do with politics (or religion)--unless someone was calling for illegal/violent activity associated with political ideology (or religion).

Feds might be on that pretty quick but might just have asked for immediate removal of all PBs (if it were reported).

Without knowing the reason, I honestly thought the reason was WB took too much data,
and so removed .
Many others & myself who have seen our items reduced in size, so that made sense to me.

Use to play Coral island & one day all the players came to their game & all their TEAM boxes were gone!
& boy howdy the tribal mess hit the social fan!
they were livid! to say the least!!
so i guess data is an issue with games.

Doesn't matter since it's a done deal tho'..i guess. idk.

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Lil J (143693635) wrote:My WB experience.
pre 2018,
the 1st WB I saw was in events.
A female figure, legs spread open, a dildo in her vagina.
I was shocked and didn't like it!.

Saw many things in events of perverted sexual titles! horrifying stuff! & reported it all!
I was told to report, I did and those events & WB remained, so I left yo! It was not my job, to police events, after I made owners aware of what was there, it was their job, i just want to decorate with my family.

After giving every item in my inventory to my closest friends.
10 yrs of collecting great stuff!! All the money & vip items I bought, all for nothing. But I didn't want to stay due to all the inappropriate goings on!!

I let it be known I was angry about all of that. & wasn't able to play until march 2024.
Started over. BV asked me to rejoin, so I did.
My 12 year old great niece had a FB account. & all her friends did too... she's now 24, she played yo when she was 12! So I did not want her to see that stuff.

Me: almost 71 now, play now with my 2 sisters, and i do NOT go to events! I did not buy any this time WB.

I feel sorry for the innocent players who did not abuse it.

Always the abusers who ruin everything for the rest of us, No, it's NOT fair!
It is what it is.

thanks for sharing that ... I too im of a more mature age. We use to have groups, I think there are still some -- where those of us of a slightly more mature age could gather and have a chuckle. This is tragic and I hope no one was hurt emotionally by the actions of those reckless players breaking tos.

Just wanted to share so. Thank you!

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Adeline (113719515) wrote:

Loie (9730540) wrote:i thought it was just the forums that didn't allow discussing certain things like politics, religion, etc (?)

i think whole game. i am typing with left hand so forgive bad job i am doing. i never saw any nudity or animal mistreatment or other things implied to be cause of this action but i did see the political sign so i mentioned it. i would not report it but others might.

I know there were racy images - while I dont hang in that part of the game ... I have going to sales once in a blue ran into the things that shouldnt have been on boards .... but recently, I'm a recuse and have NO Idea if that is what is going on. As for politics in the game; I personally wish we would leave both politics and the god concept alone -- but since this is suppose to your place and your space, it is going to happen and I can choose to not take part in it. -- but doxxing is another situation all together. Posting images of others and their personal information is a serious issue if that is what has been happening

I'm not shocked or disturbed by racy or sexual images of consenting individuals or between individuals--consenting is the word. Obviously they do not belong in the game and BVG can just remove them or kill the accounts responsible--obviously against TOS because some people are uncomfortable personally or because of religion with such imagery, the imagery is NSFW, and minors, especially young ones (older teens likely already are finding ways to see such imagery), Such imagery likely, if I get what you mean by racy, doesn't qualify as fine art nudity which kids might see on museum field trips.

This had to be more than racy or porn itself. So give BVG the benefit of the doubt that they had to do what they did immediately for the sake of the game and us having a game.

tommy PBmad (146736020) wrote:Maybe to many yo's used paintboards to push back against the woke, dei, lgbtqxyz ++ culture that yo workers have been promoting. I don't have problem with that culture, I just haven't bought the offerings. BUT HAVE BOUGHT A LOT OF PAINT BOARDS,modular rooms, and avenues, to make travels easier in my over 2000 homes, aves and modular rooms ( road signs, billboards, connection homes, and homes created by me). This is an extream reaction if I got this right. I'll give is a bit of time to see how this plays out, been on yo since '09... but his might be the end of the road.

See now this is the kind of garbage that should get an instant ban.

Hackng through paintboards is my final guess. That would be a very serious issue.

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

Loie (9730540) wrote:i thought it was just the forums that didn't allow discussing certain things like politics, religion, etc (?)

It had nothing to do with politics (or religion)--unless someone was calling for illegal/violent activity associated with political ideology (or religion).

Feds might be on that pretty quick but might just have asked for immediate removal of all PBs (if it were reported).

that's my point, i don't think it has anything to do with politics, that would be crazy.
i know we can't discuss it on the forums but think we're free to do politics in game.

Loie (9730540) wrote:

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

Loie (9730540) wrote:i thought it was just the forums that didn't allow discussing certain things like politics, religion, etc (?)

It had nothing to do with politics (or religion)--unless someone was calling for illegal/violent activity associated with political ideology (or religion).

Feds might be on that pretty quick but might just have asked for immediate removal of all PBs (if it were reported).

that's my point, i don't think it has anything to do with politics, that would be crazy.
i know we can't discuss it on the forums but think we're free to do politics in game.

apologies for misunderstanding

Thanks alot guys, millions of coins gone in buying hand drawn art. I have a whole freakin art gallery that just got wiped out. I'm not very happy about it i've been collecting hand drawn art for years. At least I still have all my whiteboard pieces.

I really hope that this will be remedied, eventually. There must be a way to create art again!?!!?!? I'm mourning the loss of this artistic expression, and it was also a way for me to make coins, while socializing and sharing this art with others. I almost stopped playing, wanted to rebel with other players, but my decorating habit and friends keep me coming back...BVG, please bring back our paintboards, with added security measures and/or whatever you see fit to make it a safe, fun and artistic environment for all!

a lot of remmeniscing - forgive spelling - remember early2009 and remarking that sellers would sell their own mothers in here if they could. Doubt that happened but would not be surprised to see international trade of children and women - wish i could remember Rod's warnings.

Adeline (113719515) wrote:a lot of remmeniscing - forgive spelling - remember early2009 and remarking that sellers would sell their own mothers in here if they could. Doubt that happened but would not be surprised to see international trade of children and women - wish i could remember Rod's warnings.

this much we do know as fact; when Zynga sold the game one of the big deals was the ability to disconnect players --
I saw a discord post that combined both the images of a board and being rolled out of the room every time they went in the room .... I think they used the portal that allowed images on the board to put code in game that affected play ... that is why it wasnt a case of removing images - the boards themselves have been compromised

Beatrice (178761483) wrote:

Adeline (113719515) wrote:a lot of remmeniscing - forgive spelling - remember early2009 and remarking that sellers would sell their own mothers in here if they could. Doubt that happened but would not be surprised to see international trade of children and women - wish i could remember Rod's warnings.

this much we do know as fact; when Zynga sold the game one of the big deals was the ability to disconnect players --
I saw a discord post that combined both the images of a board and being rolled out of the room every time they went in the room .... I think they used the portal that allowed images on the board to put code in game that affected play ... that is why it wasnt a case of removing images - the boards themselves have been compromised

I wonder if that hack worked only on unprotected/unlocked boards, or on all of them???

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

I have seen paintboards were freaks of nature had photos of there p..nis idk if it was there own or something googled and that makes no different of how f..cked up that is players needs to understand once for all that this game is legal to play when you are what 14 - 15 years old correct me if im wrong but these kids should not be seing that type mentaly brain dead of art from freaks who plays this game , bvg took down these boards from all of us some say its bcz of a lawsuit othwers has said its bcz there was political sh..t on there boards , one thing i totally agree is these boards wasnt ment to be used in that way these boards was ment to be drawn on but we players took it to a higher level and found nice cartoon and background photos from websites and by using a program that had nothing to do with yoworld bvg or anything in thuis game we made em through that program to use em in the game 99% of the photos was great creative and funny but that 1 % wasnt , many sitting now complain about that 1% how about we all start to think about these photos came into the game in first place , that program is actully the bad guy here not the photos bcz if there wasnt any program then there wouldnt be any photos like that 1% in the game .
Even that i hate what bvg did to all your photos of memories of family photos etc. or to your creative way of decoration rooms , we still have to remember that we took the chance and made em or payed others to make em for us. me you everyone who did that actully broke the rules no matter how we set it up we did . the problem is more that bvg didnttook actions years ago when we started make these photos through programs thats were i start to think why didnt they why did bvg let this go so far before they took actions bcz someday this would end by a lawsuit or copyrights etc and as photographer i know the law of using others photos even they are on google search engine its still the person who took the picture property . i had a photo of the snoop dog dre and eminem together on 6 paintboards that was against the rules of yoworld and against the copyright of the owner of the photo .the only way you can use photos from websites search engines etc is to go to the free photos websites and download the photo from that site else not .i know millions of ppl around the world using google daily to find a happy birthday picture or goodmorning picture to use on facebook and so on but still it is actully not legal if these pictures photos aint taken from these free photo websites .

Maybe bvg got a lawsuit from some one who find there photos was used in game of yoworld idk maybe the got a lawsuit for using political statement in a so called game were kids are playing idk

but i know one thing if BIG VIKING GAMES gets a serious lawsuit then we are doomed then yoworld will not exist no more bcz that will bring bvg down a payment in millions of dollars and that will end with a wham bam thank you mam yoworld has left the planet for good

i knew and you knew from day one that the money we put into this game cant or will never be refounded i know and you know we dont own anything we pay to play with it and thats it , thats how the game is set up 16 years ago by zynga so no refounds are coming your way no matter how hard it is to accept there isnt any , but be sure on that i trully understand the feelings and heartbroken you guys are trust me i trully understand but sometimes we forget that what we did with these boards wasnt acutully okay .

why do i say this well bcz i try to make ppl remember why we are here why we love the game so much as we do bcz we got rid of those packet editors so called hackers who freeze ppl freeze the entire room etc .we got rid of them fake items we gor rid of them players who stold our coins in fake trades we actully have a game who still got issues and i believe we will always have some bcz the game changes over and over we got htnl5 we got bed for two LOL but that was on players wishlist since 2009 when the best theme ever came out the 09 valentine and mafia if these themes had two players bed zynga would had changed from a virtual chat game to a freaking pixelated po.ngame haha my point is how about we start to slow down a bit and let bvg take there time to get the paint board issue done and then we can start to talk about wishes again but only if bvg will be with us on that new trip bcz they need to step big time to by get some new designers for our items and themes bcz what they give us right now is bad as f...k i havenever seen it this bad ever so its up to bvg if they wants to send yoworld on a new 16 years of journey with us , bcz im ready so my question is are you guys ready

Pope Felipe (185798808) wrote:GOD BLESS YOU ALL

GOD BLESS YOU 2 FELIPE

It's sad good players lost their artwork (myself included) but I do believe in the terms of service it bans use of 3rd party software. However you guys hacked those images into the game had to include 3rd party software, not to mention the copyrighted pictures and porn that were uploaded onto them. We're lucky everything in the game wasn't lost - if BVG hadn't bought it back from Zynga that's what would have happened. So as sad as it is we need to move on. I wonder though if a possibility could have been to lock the boards?

ll Michele ll (167965211) wrote:It's sad good players lost their artwork (myself included) but I do believe in the terms of service it bans use of 3rd party software. However you guys hacked those images into the game had to include 3rd party software, not to mention the copyrighted pictures and porn that were uploaded onto them. We're lucky everything in the game wasn't lost - if BVG hadn't bought it back from Zynga that's what would have happened. So as sad as it is we need to move on. I wonder though if a possibility could have been to lock the boards?

My boards WERE locked. They still got wiped out.

JulieHootieScraps (108384802) wrote:

ll Michele ll (167965211) wrote:It's sad good players lost their artwork (myself included) but I do believe in the terms of service it bans use of 3rd party software. However you guys hacked those images into the game had to include 3rd party software, not to mention the copyrighted pictures and porn that were uploaded onto them. We're lucky everything in the game wasn't lost - if BVG hadn't bought it back from Zynga that's what would have happened. So as sad as it is we need to move on. I wonder though if a possibility could have been to lock the boards?

My boards WERE locked. They still got wiped out.

Same for me. Every paint board I had was locked. Most were gifts. And now they are gone. I was lucky to have screen shots of almost all of them, but most were not that lucky. I'm still smarting from it all, even though I am certain as to why it happened. I do think the reason it happened justifies the pain, but it doesn't lessen it - at all.

Chill (126579776) wrote:

JulieHootieScraps (108384802) wrote:

ll Michele ll (167965211) wrote:It's sad good players lost their artwork (myself included) but I do believe in the terms of service it bans use of 3rd party software. However you guys hacked those images into the game had to include 3rd party software, not to mention the copyrighted pictures and porn that were uploaded onto them. We're lucky everything in the game wasn't lost - if BVG hadn't bought it back from Zynga that's what would have happened. So as sad as it is we need to move on. I wonder though if a possibility could have been to lock the boards?

My boards WERE locked. They still got wiped out.

Same for me. Every paint board I had was locked. Most were gifts. And now they are gone. I was lucky to have screen shots of almost all of them, but most were not that lucky. I'm still smarting from it all, even though I am certain as to why it happened. I do think the reason it happened justifies the pain, but it doesn't lessen it - at all.

i think most everyone had their boards locked, i thought what Michelle meant here was perhaps bvg could have just locked the boards from being changed and left them so we could enjoy them. that is how i took it.