Delete my post and images

[a4hire]

I think for what ever reason a member has , it is none of our business. But yes a member should be allowed to delete posts, graphics posted, or delete their whole account if they wish to.
Will it hurt the forums ? Of course not , that is silly. I do not have the power to remove your posts and graphics Risto. I would be glad to help you if I did. Perhaps someone with the proper admin privileges will oblige your requests.

[Big Frank]

I think for what ever reason a member has , it is none of our business.

Very true - I'm just being nosy

But yes a member should be allowed to delete posts, graphics posted, or delete their whole account if they wish to.

I don't think they will either do it or even be able to do it. Deleting an account is easy, but it doesn't delete any posts made by that account holder. Deleting his uploaded graphics is feasible and he has every right to request that, but deleting his posts is an almost impossible task, quite apart from the fact that this would render many threads he has contributed to meaningless or at least disjointed. Anyway, any text a user posts is deemed to be public (to the users of the forum) and afaik he has no right to request that his posts be deleted.

If there are a number of posts that he feels stop him earning money (i'm just guessing here) then he could simply ask that his account username be changed so that his posts cannot be identified to him. It's not ideal but it might get him out of this fix.

Anyway, I've just made a delicious vegetable curry and am going to sit back and enjoy it. Cheers for now, me dears!

[RTK]

Hello? Xara, I replied to your email days ago... Still waiting to "discuss".

Please email me please.

[katemoir]

Having discussed this with E1 we believe the main requirement is anonymity so we have achieved this by changing his name to remove anything that identifies him. Having discussed the question of mass deletion of posts with Steve we conclude that we simply cannot do that. It would break a lot of threads, remove completely some other threads - including posts from other people who might not want their posts removed - and potentially the board software isn’t up to it. As the rules say, making a post is deemed to be making it public, everyone has to keep in mind that it ain’t easy to make something un-public!