How to Get your Community Back

As i wrote before How your Community can get Hacked..
Now i am writing how you can retrieve your community once it has been hacked by someone..

Once Your community is hacked you can use two methods to get it Back..
No. 1 is to ask the Hacker to return the community to you...
Talk to him politely....
Promise him to make him a moderator once he has returned the community..
Ask him what else he wants..
Do not abuse him..
Ask other community members to ask the Hacker to return the community...

Well if you are able to convince him he might return the community...I got my community Back by this method 3 Times....

But If your community has been hacked, and the person who dethroned you is unwilling to give it back, here are some necessary steps that should help speed up the process of reclaiming your forum.

1. Contact Google: You need to alert Google about this situation, by contacting them over here.
   
   Make sure you include as much information as possible, such as the date you started (or began administrating) the forum, the date you think it was stolen from you, and what the forum description was about.



2. Contact Forum Members: Send them an email asking them to report the illegal take over as well (with the same amount of detail mentioned above).
   
   DO NOT scrap all of your friends regarding this (as that would alert the thief) and do not ask your Orkut friends to report this on your behalf, unless they are members of the forum (as Google is more likely to believe a member than an outsider).



3. Be patient: Google employees (to my knowledge) do not spend all of their time reading trouble tickets. Most engineers (if not all) spend a large portion of their time making their pet projects better, of which the same holds true for Orkut.
   
   The good news is that if you are able to contact a Google employee fairly quickly, they will have the ability to help you out with your problem and understand your dilemma. The bad news is that due to the number of trouble tickets that they receive, you will probably not get a response back unless they need more info.


4. Secure Thy Internet: After getting back your forum (although I would recommend doing this while waiting) you should change your password on your Google account, not to mention Delete any cookies, temporary Internet files and cache

[via InsideOrkut]