Could somebody who voted for a cooling off period in the first poll but snap deletions in the second give their reasoning for that? Because choosing those two options doesn’t make any sense to me. I often get the feeling when we have multiple polls that people vote thoughtfully on the first one and then completely misunderstand the second.
Like, I’m not sure how somebody deserves a chance to rethink a perma-ban request but complete account deletion gets granted immediately.
Literally? No, as long as the mods can keep up with deletions.
Symbolically? Every post contains inter-species erotica if you think about it. Which you will.
Crap I assumed he was WillD who was also a good poaster
Wow even 22 had threads live on started by Another Loser didn’t it?
I don‘t understand why the cool down period for a permaban is shorter than for an anonomyzation.
I would still want the option of deleting if there is a safety and privacy concern, but I otherwise think it good for the standard to be that deleted accounts make all previous manifestations of the account anonymous. It’s the sort of caveat I’d say add to the terms and conditions. No one will read it, but it’d be nice for anyone who does and appreciates the clarification upfront.
Like say we just get hit by a superhax brigade of alt-right doxxers, I may want a nuke button in that event, but would that even have any practical effect or is that like “duck and cover” when a nuclear bomb lands in your back yard?
I don’t think losing the history of discussion is trivial. It was a choice made when to move because other factors overrode them.
Plus all those threads and posts are still online. So it is not the same at all. Losing entire threads because someone wants to take their ball and go home is not cool. Anyone not understanding that should probably just stop posting now.
It should not be a surprise to anyone or really a discussion when it comes up. We should not turn the forums into Swiss cheese because someone got a feather up their ass.
Perhaps a clear disclaimer explaining the policy and laying out that account wide deletions of content will not happen.
Just get under a desk, it’ll be fine.
I can think of multiple occasions where it would have been ruinous to the thread to lose all posts by a single user. Think of threads where unique content drove the thread, or threads where particular people drove the conversation such that without their posts, the thread is nonsensical and impossible to show anyone why it was once a must-read. In those cases, I’d almost rather the entire thread be nuked than leave an unreadable, incoherent artifact.
afaik you can delete your own posts forever. I’ve already tested it on a 4 month old post from an unprivileged account. If people have serious privacy concerns about old posts they can address them themselves. The only current restriction is a maximum of 10 deletions per day.
And yeah, it’s the internet. It’s wide open to the entire world and all this crap is already archived in places it can never be deleted from anyway. You accept that risk when you post in a public forum. Nobody’s going to regain any meaningful anonymity by having their account deleted. The more likely result would be a Streisand effect.
So is this the Ban Me thread or is this the thread hashing our how a Ban Me thread would work if one was ever implemented?
This is the thread where you test the mods limits to see how much you can get away with before you’re banned for something totally unrelated but man does it become controversial once the community weighs in
Bump I guess. I see now that this is quite old.
What do we do when someone requests a perma, gets the 14 day and then never comes back to say they really want the perma? How long do we give them?
Also, some perma requests may be for more serious reasons than just not wanting to post here anymore. I have to say that as a mod I endeavor to follow the mod rules, but if someone were really worried about a doxxing or something in real life, especially if there were any fear of physical danger…I guess I’d break the rule and get demodded and/or banned if that were the consequence.
Didn’t know we had this, despite voting in it. It’s a very old poll.
ggoreo has an amazing memory and just reminded me of it in the log of key moderator actions thread.
If I would have known that woulda been a little easier. Maybe we need a stickied list of binding polls in the future, if we can ever agree about that.
Can even you make the account available again?
I don’t know for sure about anonymizing. Jbro’s account is just suspended permanently and that can be undone.
Welp. If I understood what he asked for was a perma (not deletion), I’d be inclined to honor the poll result. The best thing that can happen is he comes back, and the worst is that he doesn’t. Don’t think it matters that an account is technically active if someone never posts on it.