Account deletion by moderator requested.

[cinnabun93]

Hi! I haven't used my account in two years and am going through and deleting things I don't use. It would be very much appreciated.

 

[navychop]

On behalf of the NSA: FAT CHANCE! We have your data anyway!




Actually, for legal reasons many sites won't/can't delete. Maybe under the "Patriot" act and other laws, it's not allowed anymore. Deactivate an account, sure. Delete all history of posts? Less likely.

 

[cinnabun93]

That would be great a deactivation. Would be very much appreciated.

 

[T134]

By coincidence I had a request for this at my forum today too. We can ban people or lock out accounts but not delete them. Main reason: it messes things up. No idea what the Satelliteguys policy is. Probably a very rare thing for someone to request outright deletion.

 

[navychop]

Why not stick around? We have several interest areas.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The policy is... if you don't want to use it then don't use it. If you want to lock yourself out, then change your password to something else and forget that password.

But we hope you stick around, you never know when you will need us.

 

[Hall]

We can ban people or lock out accounts but not delete them. Main reason: it messes things up.

I can see how it could present issues if you outright deleted the user and all traces of their presence. What could be done is leave the 'text' of their posts but wipe out the user-related info (to the left). The username could be "Deleted User" and all of the fields blank.

 

[navychop]

And then, you can always retrieve that password from the government - no need to write the NSA, just muse out loud that you wonder what it was, and a kindly, helpful monitor will provide it to you.

I gotta ask - what TV source do you use? Dish, DirecTV, cable, OTA, OTT.......?

I wonder why "kindly" came out "kinky" first time around.

 

[dfergie]

Once a Marine, always a Marine...

 

[dfergie]

I was not a Marine, but work with some and get a Hurrah every now and then...

 

[T134]

I can see how it could present issues if you outright deleted the user and all traces of their presence. What could be done is leave the 'text' of their posts but wipe out the user-related info (to the left). The username could be "Deleted User" and all of the fields blank.

This still causes issues as quotes in posts and some other items in the database will still refer to the original name. Tried something like this before and right away saw messed up confused threads.

 

[Hall]

Xenforo must be able to handle it because there are add-ons to enable it, including allowing ALL traces of the person (posts included).

Doesn't matter though. It's Scott's policy not to plus, what is the harm to the OP? He mentioned cleaning up and it sounds like cleaning his computer. Website membership does nothing on the user's computer other than a cookie.

 

[Bob Haller]

the OP has too much time on his hands...

 

[navychop]

None of which, apparently, he is spending here.

 

[Claude Greiner]

You can't delete posts as it leaves big holes in the board.

Imagine if we deleted all my posts, how different things will be

 

[navychop]

You can't delete posts as it leaves big holes in the board.

Imagine if we deleted all my posts, how different things will be

Kinda left yourself open there, eh, partner?

 

[KE4EST]

Imagine if we deleted all my posts, how different things will be

I can imagine.

Kinda left yourself open there, eh, partner?

Just had too, since he left himself open for that.

 

[pickone4me]

I remember when I asked for a different account to be deleted, I ended up with an account ban which isn't the same as deleting! So the lesson here is be careful what you wish for.

 

[raoul5788]

I edited the above post to remove a name. Let's keep personalities out please.

 

[Juan]

the OP has too much time on his hands...