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fechter said:Craigsj had edited all of his posts and replaced all content, with just a "---" .
He then PM'd me and asked me to remove his account. Since there was no content left in any of his posts, I deleted those too.
I got no explanation, but if somebody asks me to delete their account and there is no content, I will comply.
In the past, I've had people make these kinds of requests when there were intellectual properly issues involved. You can't patent something that is already publicly posted.
Patents are really such a waste of time these days. I have at least 9 of them but they haven't done me any good. Expensive as hell to have a lawyer do them too.
amberwolf said:fechter said:Craigsj had edited all of his posts and replaced all content, with just a "---" .
He then PM'd me and asked me to remove his account. Since there was no content left in any of his posts, I deleted those too.
I got no explanation, but if somebody asks me to delete their account and there is no content, I will comply.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought the whole reason we added Post History feature was because a member named Nuts&Volts went on a similar self-deletion rampage, removing important content he'd contributed to threads, so that if members did this, stuff could be recovered.
Assisting them by removing even the history defeats the point of having that feature.
Well said Amberwolf. The way the forum is now is like the real world. Once you say something you can not take it back. I agree that when a forum member has a hissy fit and replaces his words with "---". It is a bit inconvenient to go back and view the history. But that's the way that it is.
I was interested in Resistance soldering bus-strips onto cells If I remember correctly? Spinningmagnets created the topic [Resistance soldering bus-strips onto cells] by spinning off Craigsj's words from another related topic. I remember lots of informative information on [Resistance soldering bus-strips onto cells] by Craigsj. Any one on planet earth looking for information on Resistance soldering bus-strips onto cells might be looking here. To remove all those technical helpful words by Craigsj was not good.
Perhaps there should be something in the forum rules stating the once you type something it will remain on the internet till the end of time.
Here I complain about Moderators deleting forum content Moderators you really, really, really, need to STOP deleting forum content. Remember what happened to Hillery when she deleted the hard drive in her server and all her emails were lost? For the record Hillery's hired a computer company who used this BleachBit software to delete stuff.
Sorry about all my complaining and I do want to thank all you moderators for doing a difficult job and moderating a wonderful forum.