I thought you were leaving.ras.s wrote:No Gamma-UT, that's my opinion as a participant there. Opinions are mostly what each post is, as you probably know, I thought I wouldn't need to suffix everything with a big "IMHO". Thanks though for slicing it like that and not replying to anything else that I wrote as a reply to you.
How to delete/deactivate account?
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- KVRAF
- 5717 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I agree that it would be a good option to add the ability to delete/deactivate ones own user account.
To be able to delete one or more of ones own user posts would also be a good option to add, instead of having to manually delete them, by editing.
To be able to delete one or more of ones own user posts would also be a good option to add, instead of having to manually delete them, by editing.
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
- Banned
- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
No, please. It is bad enough that people can edit their posts in hindsight and thus render following conversations useless. I think one should only be able to edit posts for 1 minute after posting, Mostly in order to correct typos.Numanoid wrote:I agree that it would be a good option to add the ability to delete/deactivate ones own user account.
To be able to delete one or more of ones own user posts would also be a good option to add, instead of having to manually delete them, by editing.
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- KVRAF
- 5717 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
If you want to fill up the pages with huge chunks of quoted text, that would be an excellent plan. Otherwise, no. Agree with fluffy on this one.Numanoid wrote:To be able to delete one or more of ones own user posts would also be a good option to add, instead of having to manually delete them, by editing.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
What makes you think 'asking' anything has got anything to do with it?ras.s wrote:whyterabbyt, isn't that a bit harsh approach to someone asking for better service from a service provider?
And its not a 'better' service just because you say so, its a different service from the one yousigned up for. Just because you want that thing doesnt make it a better thing.
(And I certainly dont consider it 'better' that any of our repeated sockpuppets and trolls could can turn up, cause trouble, and then get to ensure that anything that prevents them from being identified when they turn up again has been eradicated, so that they can get a clear run at it again, ie the trumpubus gambit)
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Account deactivation would be fine, except for the 'oooh I changed my mind brigade'. Deleting the posts that go with an account is a bad idea.Numanoid wrote:I agree that it would be a good option to add the ability to delete/deactivate ones own user account.
To be able to delete one or more of ones own user posts would also be a good option to add, instead of having to manually delete them, by editing.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Dont be silly, that would be personal responsibility.Burillo wrote:what's wrong with, you know, logging out and not logging in?
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRian
- 1222 posts since 2 Dec, 2008 from Finland
Burillo, it would leave the messages intact. I think having them deleted provides a closure, like fluffy put it: "officially closing a chapter and moving on". I'm sure there's a level mental investment for anyone who has X amount of years or Y amount of posts under their belt (the amounts depending on the individual). Deleting them at least partly clears that investment, which abandoning an account may not do for everyone. Time is of course always lost.
whyterabbyt, I don't have much to add to that, you are of course correct on the semantics of "better" and "different from what you signed up for". Of course adding the feature would be the only way to see its outcome, what the repeated sockpuppets and the 'oooh I changed my mind brigade' would do and so on. I don't see that an assumption of abuse or misconduct should hold the administrator back from giving this option to all users.
whyterabbyt, I don't have much to add to that, you are of course correct on the semantics of "better" and "different from what you signed up for". Of course adding the feature would be the only way to see its outcome, what the repeated sockpuppets and the 'oooh I changed my mind brigade' would do and so on. I don't see that an assumption of abuse or misconduct should hold the administrator back from giving this option to all users.
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- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
And yet you clearly have no problem thinking that your assumption of it being 'better' should cause the administrator to give this option to all users.ras.s wrote:I don't see that an assumption of abuse or misconduct should hold the administrator back from giving this option to all users.
So much so that this thread would appear to predicated entirely on that assumption (thus unduly delaying your flounce off into the sunset.)
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRAF
- 5717 posts since 8 Jun, 2009
Go and delete the content then. No-one's stopping you. You ask for a name change to "nothereanymore0001" and put "I'm deleted" in all the user info boxes. Put gibberish in the email and password. Job done.ras.s wrote:Burillo, it would leave the messages intact. I think having them deleted provides a closure, like fluffy put it: "officially closing a chapter and moving on".
Maybe that's too much hard work in your efforts to mentally move on. But it sounds cathartic to me. No pain, no gain.
I can't remember who it was, but there was one user who went through their old posts to delete the content. So, it's not as if it hasn't been done before.
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- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Yup, I remember seeing that. And there's one current poster who, for a while, was retroactively deleting his old posts a few weeks later.Gamma-UT wrote:I can't remember who it was, but there was one user who went through their old posts to delete the content. So, it's not as if it hasn't been done before.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRian
- 1222 posts since 2 Dec, 2008 from Finland
whyterabbyt, at the very least it would be better in that these type of matters would not need to be discussed publicly. Click and it's done. Gone is the possibility to log in and respond back, the credibility at the marketplace forum, every single contribution whether negative or positive, all the chatty chatty, even the musical partners. Something that's good for an individual, often ends up being good for the community as well.
It's also a practical issue that the administrator does not always respond to people asking about something privately. This would bypass that part and possibly ease his task of running the site.
Gamma-UT, having to go through each individual post sounds like a penalty for wanting to leave. This is a social media platform, an old school one at that, but still a social media. Having the possibility to remove oneself without making a issue out of it, it's just a sensible thing in this time and age.
Relatively recently I recall that at least mztk started removing his posts until he got the ban that he wanted, and codec_spurt removed some of his posts after the fiasco with that fake famous person but never got banned (and seems to have returned). He also went and removed all the content he had uploaded to the site, which wasn't a little amount, and that's also an issue with abandoning accounts.
It's also a practical issue that the administrator does not always respond to people asking about something privately. This would bypass that part and possibly ease his task of running the site.
Gamma-UT, having to go through each individual post sounds like a penalty for wanting to leave. This is a social media platform, an old school one at that, but still a social media. Having the possibility to remove oneself without making a issue out of it, it's just a sensible thing in this time and age.
Relatively recently I recall that at least mztk started removing his posts until he got the ban that he wanted, and codec_spurt removed some of his posts after the fiasco with that fake famous person but never got banned (and seems to have returned). He also went and removed all the content he had uploaded to the site, which wasn't a little amount, and that's also an issue with abandoning accounts.
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- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Another thing that's 'better' because you say so. Interesting.ras.s wrote:whyterabbyt, at the very least it would be better in that these type of matters would not need to be discussed publicly.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- 10732 posts since 17 Nov, 2015
If your account is "deactivated" or you are "banned" or whatever, and you cannot login, what diff does it make if your posts are there or not? If you dont want to vist kvr, you aren't going to see anything.