Deleting board members
 

So, what is LoT's official policy for deleting board members?

NO! No, of course I don't want to be deleted. You guys are like family!

There's been some question at my workplace about the legality of deleting a member from a board. As far as we understand it, when someone puts their words on the internet, even deletion won't make it go away. Board admins need to keep track of IP addresses, and in the off-chance that there would be some need to return, if your membership was deleted you'd officially be a sock puppet-- and that's not kosher, either.

What's the LoT policy? The MousePlanet policy? The Micechat policy? Anybody know anything else about the matter?

Eh, we're a private entity we do what we want.

I think so far we've only suspended one person for a day, and banned one person and their IP addresses before they even signed on. I've also been deleting some of the Bots that sign up now and then.

I don't get the legal issues. For one, we're not offering a service for cash, whereby someone might sue you for breech of service or something. The usual legal issue are about plagerism and copyright violations, child pornography, or exposing children to naughty pictures and talking dirty.

Our official policy on such things can be found in our FAQ from which I quote:

Thanks, €. Since this person is leaving of his own accord, it's not a matter of banning or suspending. He simply wants us to delete everything he's ever done on the site-- which will, in turn, require us to delete a lot of other people's interaction as well, and we don't want to do that.

Ah, naw - we don't do that - if you posted it, you should be willing to live with it (Copyright and criminal activities though are some noteworthy exceptions though)

Sorry, Charlie. When you hit that post button, your words became property of the board you posted it on and no long your property. If the board admins want to delete stuff, then that's their decision. Admins and Mods and board rules dictate what gets deleted and what does no after the editing period is gone.

BTW, I believe copyright issues are already delt with with the VBulletin software. Another reason that "off the shelf" software is such a wonderful thing. Of course neither one of us can find the text that says this. :rolleyes:

Does that board have edit functions? Tell the person you don't have the time or energy to go through cleaning up all their posts- if it's important enough, they can do it. I've pulled a few posts on OP request here and at Fabs, but I am not about to go and delete everything a person ever posted, especially if they were prolific posters.

No way. When you say something, you can't later go back and have the mind police come and erase your words. You say it, it's gone.

I'm really hard core on this issue. We all say things that need to be moved, deleted, or edited now and then. That's not unusual at all, but to ask a board to remove EVERY post and all record of a person't existance - especially if they are a problem - is not going to happen. Stop posting if you don't want things of yours read.

How about if you replace his words with a parody of his words? Alls fair in Satire right?

I find that a lot of people make this request because they have stromed off and are trying to force themselves to stay away.

It's a request that is never granted. Your message board should have a disclaimer informing posters that all submissions are property of the message board to avoid later copyright claims, this also gives you freedom to reuse the content should you wish.

I like €uro's suggestion- maybe we could help the editing process? ;):evil:

I think I still have eduting rights over there......:evil:




Oops. Not any more! ;)

But apparently not here :evil:

Wouldn't deleting messages be a whole lot of work? I know that some sites have the technology available for a person to not only delete their posts, but delete their accounts as well. I'm a member of a site that is hosted by an Internet company called Proboards, which operates this way. However, when an account is deleted, either by the person themselves, or by a moderator who has banned them from the site, their posts still remain...they just have the title of "Guest" underneath them.

I think you're hoping for impossible odds to truly delete a person from a website. There's always going to be SOME trace of them.

But, for your sake, LS, I hope you can reach common ground with this person and make some compromises so that you can both get some closure (if that's the right word).

Just say no

Ditto

Why would someone creat Bots to sign up on chat boards? I know there are bots that search out websites for the search engines, is that the same thing? I also realize there are some kind of automation that causes me to have to fill in the security blanks with code that's half scrambled at times to prove I'm a real person.

So what's up with these Bots you speak of (or should we call them "Those we don't speak of"?)

There was this thread

I believe their purpose is to post spam to our forums, but usually being a bot, they can't complete the registration process which requires responding to an email, and then being manually approved by one of the admins. A lot of Bots seem to have been born on January 1, 1980.

Heh heh...that was a fun thread. :D

Heheh, my favorite part was seeing this post of €uro's -
right above his current signature.

:eek:

Yeah, well I haven't hit death row material yet - but I could come seeking your professional services sometime in the future ;)

As a minor, I feel exposed too and personally damaged by Euro's signature.

My laywer will be contacting you shortly.

Hehehehehehehehehe Slurp!

I feel damaged too - the laptop's in the way ! :rolleyes:

:confused: what's a clitoris? and why do you need two of them?

:slaps forehead:
I'm such a nerd!
:D

We all know smart vulvas are called clitorati. But did you know that oral sex involving clitorati is called cunninglingus?

And now you know.

And knowing is half the battle.

:D

and yet we love you anyway. :D

do you suppose that is why men preparing for battle invented this?

Oh, I hadn't seen that thread.

But what interesting conversation came about upon revisiting it, no?:D Slurping spiders and all......

I would hate to have been born on 1/1/80, and try signing up for chat boards!

I guess I need a bigger laptop

:cheers:

Your sig pic needs the caption:

"Look, Jen, I'm posting on LoT. No hands!"


:D

Hmm - perhaps I'm feeling damaged by Euro's sig as well, as it implicates me as being less than a perfectly moral person according to current standards...

...nah, he doesn't have enough money for a settlement....and besides, I've already accepted mojo for my appearance in his sig, which wouldn't look too good in court.

That's my writing in his avatar as well :cheers:

Yeah... is that the chair-leg or what ?

Or, "Is that an umbrella, or are you just happy to see me?":eek: