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Right to be forgotten
Le Chuck:
Should users be able to zero out their post history?
After Pinball Jim we lost the "delete post" function IIRC.
Now with LT there are calls to stop modification of historic threads.
Support? Not support? What say you?
Opening this thread as an outlet for the LT thread.
johnrt:
This forum need a disclaimer when signing up. And disable the opportunity to edit posts older than xx days.
Slippyblade:
I honestly have no idea what would lead someone to just "take their ball and go home" and delete everything on a public forum. Especially one that relies on collaboration to the extent of BYOAC. Then again, I've never really understood the "right to be forgotten". Doesn't make any sense to me.
Not bagging on TJ for doing this, just stating my total confusion about doing so.
Le Chuck:
I support the right to be forgotten. I think it is important that people have the right to clean out their history on the internet and not have something good or bad follow them.
Let's say I'm a gun enthusiast and I am a member of a online gun forum where I have posted all kinds of stuff that is pro gun. Then there is a tragedy in my life related to the misuse of a firearm. Maybe that causes all my opinions to change. I have gone through a traumatic life changing experience.
I think that justifies my right to zero out my posts and effectively forget that part of myself. Perhaps the accident was due to my negligence and some of those posts are a painful reminder that cause me undue grief. I think I have a right to have that not hang over my head and follow me around. I think I have a right to get clear of it. Afterall my online ID isn't my person - it's a representation of my person. If my true person has changed why should that representation be made to stay and misrepresent my beliefs and interests.
I don't want anybody to nuke their shiz but based on that scenario I would support the decision to do so. Please note this example has nothing to do with LT. To my knowledge LT did not lose a loved one to an arcade machine.
harveybirdman:
I'd just like to know what happened.... it took me months to figure out the PL1 Malenko thing....
Now Tully gone..... :dunno
Clearly I spend too much time in just two forums.
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