hardwick1:
The theft of intellectual property is even low for WGT.
Not all of those post and blogs were silly songs. Some were heartfelt messages to friends, some long gone aka dead. Some were profound statements of belief.
WGT you have stolen that which was never yours.
Jill
Your use of the words "theft" and "stolen" strongly imply that you consider this to be a deliberate action on the part of WGT to remove content for their own use, whereas evidence and experience points to it being more of an aggravating but accidental mistake.
And if you consider something to be "intellectual property" then perhaps you should copyright or patent it, not post it to a third-party's website where you have no right of ownership.
I understand that it's upsetting to see content suddenly vanish, especially if you have an emotional connection to it, but I think that calling it theft is an unfortunate accusation.
My expectation (and of course I'm only guessing and hoping) is that the missing content in forums and profile pages will be restored once the error is corrected, and based on the posts here from Champion they do seem to be working towards that end.