Rant: deleting users/posts

[ToronToto]

I am posting this in "The Lounge", but really it should be viewed by everyone, in every section.

Mods: Is there a policy about a user requesting to have their handle, and all of their posts deleted?

In the early days, I can see this being an issue. No real policy was established. In the last couple of years, there should be a policy, that, NO one, including moderators, can NOT request their posts to be deleted.

This is a response to realizing that I have read many threads, where someone is "quoted", and the "quote" is still there, but the original response is missing, and the poster and all their posts have been deleted.

 

[ToronToto]

Sometimes users get caught by their spouse and they need all evidence removed, others have a need because they've posted too many personal things over the years they've been online.

It's TERB's policy that if there is a real need for the comments to be removed, we will.

Isn't posting here the responsibility of the poster?

We see far too many specific comments made by posters about:
* their background information
* dates they have been in Toronto
* who and when (specific date/time) they saw
* etc

Might as well have us not include any of these very specific details beforehand.

btw, I was also speaking about moderators and providers, not just clients. And I do not think it is just an issue about a "spouse" or "significant other" being suspicious. Basically, it appears, anyone can request that ALL of their posts can be deleted.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

This is a response to realizing that I have read many threads, where someone is "quoted", and the "quote" is still there, but the original response is missing, and the poster and all their posts have been deleted.

Dude, get a life okay.

It sounds like you need to get into egotistical pissing contests over who's right and who's wrong over bulletin board postings and there you are scouring over someone's posting history to find something to nail them against the wall.
But, clearly realize most emotional bulletin board debates involve total retards, including myself.

So, to me if a person needs to have their ID and posting history deleted they should have complete unrestricted freedom to do so.
You sound like a weird, ugly, control freakologist. If someone wants to walk away let them do it and good luck to them going forward. No problems.

 

[ToronToto]

Dude, get a life okay.

It sounds like you need to get into egotistical pissing contests over who's right and who's wrong over bulletin board postings and there you are scouring over someone's posting history to find something to nail them against the wall.
But, clearly realize most emotional bulletin board debates involve total retards, including myself.

So, to me if a person needs to have their ID and posting history deleted they should have complete unrestricted freedom to do so.
You sound like a weird, ugly, control freakologist. If someone wants to walk away let them do it and good luck to them going forward. No problems.

Odd, the part you quoted of me:

This is a response to realizing that I have read many threads, where someone is "quoted", and the "quote" is still there, but the original response is missing, and the poster and all their posts have been deleted.

is the fact that "quotes" are still in other responses. So, in actuality, TERB has no simple way of deleting one's ENTIRE posting history. This was not addressed by Sheik, which I originally asked.

Really, I am not scouring over someone's else's posts. What I did notice, is that someone who made many recent, very useful, informative posts, in the "incall" section, were basically gone.

I do not think this poster made any naive mistakes. I do not the believe the comment by "Sheik" that "they've posted too many personal things over the years", is really applicable for this particular user and their posts.

So the reality is, it appears, anyone can request their handle and posts to be deleted. Which is what I was originally asking.

 

[fuji]

You aren't very imaginative if you can't think up at LEAST ten different reasons why someone might need to have their history on terb erased.

If I thought someone out there might be able to put my real identity together with this terb account I would request to have my history deleted too, and I am glad to know the option is there in case I need it. Sure some remnants will still be there in quotes--but that's much harder to search for, and realistically it's a best effort by the mods and certainly better than having everything online.

For just ONE example if your imagination is really that poor:

Maybe buddy left himself logged in to terb by accident and his girlfriend came along and was like, "what the fuck is this site?"

Might be a good time to have your posting history deleted before she starts reading about all your exploits, no?

 

[Chillroy]

So, to me if a person needs to have their ID and posting history deleted they should have complete unrestricted freedom to do so.

Kilgore you are 100% correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

 

[ToronToto]

You aren't very imaginative if you can't think up at LEAST ten different reasons why someone might need to have their history on terb erased.

If I thought someone out there might be able to put my real identity together with this terb account I would request to have my history deleted too, and I am glad to know the option is there in case I need it. Sure some remnants will still be there in quotes--but that's much harder to search for, and realistically it's a best effort by the mods and certainly better than having everything online.

For just ONE example if your imagination is really that poor:

Maybe buddy left himself logged in to terb by accident and his girlfriend came along and was like, "what the fuck is this site?"

Might be a good time to have your posting history deleted before she starts reading about all your exploits, no?

Fuji

No, my imagination is not poor. There is a very, very small percentage of users that request their handle/posts be deleted.

What are the valid reasons:
* a poster can be identified, by whomever, because too much personal information was revealed by themselves (or others) about them
* an SO or other found that they were logged in to TERB

What are the other valid reasons why someone would want their handle / posts deleted?

 

[Fred Zed]

Fuji

No, my imagination is not poor. There is a very, very small percentage of users that request their handle/posts be deleted.

What are the valid reasons:
* a poster can be identified, by whomever, because too much personal information was revealed by themselves (or others) about them
* an SO or other found that they were logged in to TERB

What are the other valid reasons why someone would want their handle / posts deleted?

TERB members voluntarily submit their posts to this site and they can demand
that we remove their posts at any time.
It is TERB policy to comply with the above.
Does that answer your question ?
Subject closed.