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07 Feb 2012, 4:23 pm

At another board I frequent , there is the option to block the search feature on you. You enable this and say if someone clicks on " find all posts by so and so," and it comes up "private." But this is not perfect.

The only other way is knowing your user name and typing it in the search box. Arduous and tedious, but it could be done.

This would be a good thing to see implemented here.

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07 Feb 2012, 4:32 pm

^Good point. Hmm, that reminds me. I noticed a couple of users over the years who's "Find all posts" feature links to a completely different user :/ I always wondered about that.

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07 Feb 2012, 5:13 pm

Mdyar wrote:

Yes. That's an interesting idea, although I do understand what TallyMan wrote too.

I wonder if there's a way to completely hide the OP / user names from outside internet searches and from non-members but allow the posted content to be seen. :?:

...is that like what you're stating Mdyar?

I wish I was a programmer to know if that's even possible. It seems like it should be possible in this format because in our profile view of our posts, we can't see who originally posted anything we quote.

Alternative, yes, the paparazzi can be relentless and vicious, especially in Hollywood *L* : P

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07 Feb 2012, 5:48 pm

goodwitchy wrote:

I wonder if there's a way to completely hide the OP / user names from outside internet searches and from non-members but allow the posted content to be seen. :?:

...is that like what you're stating Mdyar?

Probably too difficult. A good security measure is a feature to block a search on your posts. As of now anyone can simply click your user name under profile and easily find stuff. Not a bad idea for users here, but if an employer suspected you were here you could use Snoopy Block.

Otherwise Spot the Looney. :lol:

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07 Feb 2012, 6:18 pm

Mdyar wrote:

But this wouldn't affect the way Google gathers its data and makes it available off WP, so the information could still be found even if you couldn't search for it on WP.

For example, if someone had posted something too revealing a user couldn't then use WP to help search for it by tracking posts from that user - but another user would find it one day by accident, just by looking through some posts on a forum.
And that's the way Google does it too...

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07 Feb 2012, 11:52 pm

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Mdyar wrote:

Yep. In my first post I mentioned you can even do that and you can do it through WP search box. It would show every thread that was posted up by you. Tedious, but available.

If a potential employer searched/ sifted through posts, that could be the end. Folks want top notch performance and could be biased by it -- more than anything they expect good judgement. Some here are discreet and do not reveal too much. That's the best security.

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08 Feb 2012, 10:44 am

if your employer really wants to fire you because you have an ASD, then wouldnt another workplace be in order?

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08 Feb 2012, 10:50 am

cinbad wrote:

I would just edit the ones you feel are the most damning. Time consuming I know, but it might make you feel better.

You are only allowed to edit your post within the first 9999 minutes of it being submitted. That's 6 days, 22 hours, and 39 minutes from the time the message was posted. After that, the deletion requires moderator involvement.

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08 Feb 2012, 10:58 am

purchase wrote:

Oh, people who know workarounds, please tell me there's a way to delete all my posts on WP. I know officially there's no way since I asked in the wrongplanet.net discussion forum but I really and truly regret posting all the stuff I've posted here publicly.

Tough luck, sport. This is a public forum and what you put here is there forever and in the long run will be somewhere on the net.

The best bet: stay off the networks. That way no one knows who or what you are.

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08 Feb 2012, 1:36 pm

Is there a way to terminate your identity on WP, and then start a new account under a new name ( die and be reborn so to speak) with the consent of the WP staff?

Your body of posts would still be there, but the corpus would no longer be connected to you- maybe- because youd have a whole new WP identity.

Or would that not solve the problem?

I guess if your posts are linked to facebook than you're stuck.

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08 Feb 2012, 2:35 pm

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Your body of posts would still be there, but the corpus would no longer be connected to you- maybe- because youd have a whole new WP identity.

WP witness protection scheme, new passport, driving licence, credit cards and Arnold Schwarzenegger to handle your relocation. :wink:

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08 Feb 2012, 3:50 pm

With free mask and fake beard. Book now!

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08 Feb 2012, 5:59 pm

purchase wrote:

You can't.

Your data already exists not just on WP servers, but on their backups, on their provider's backups, at their secondary data center, in the Internet Archive, cached by BING and Google, on computers of all the people that have read your topics (ther browser cache, and THEIR backups), the government has a copy (NSA has a tap straight into the AT&T backbones).

Anything posted on the Internet is available forever and ever, in many different locations.

Data on the Internet is kind of like life. It copies and multiplies and is impossible to completely destroy.

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08 Feb 2012, 6:16 pm

What if ... a member accidentally posted copyrighted material, and now wants it deleted before the copyright holder finds out?

:oops:

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08 Feb 2012, 7:16 pm

wait for ACTA :lol:
pull the plug it will, mhmhehmmm

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08 Feb 2012, 8:18 pm

Dilbert wrote:

purchase wrote:

Uggg....my first reaction to your post made my stomach turn (thanks *lol*)...but then I had a thought.

Perhaps one way to mess with anyone who wants to follow you (by your user name) is to cause confusion with the user name.
Create a "John Smith" duplicity effect. If there are many users with the same user name (in different forums all over the internet), how would anyone know which one is you, or if you're all the same or all different people?

(Computer savvy people could figure out you're you by your DNS/IP, but most average users wouldn't know)....I know, that's a crazy idea.

I guess the question for each user concerned about this issue is: Who are you most concerned about seeing your posts here: Is it the government, your job, your family and friends, or people who know you "in real life" and might be able to find you here?

For me, besides my logging in here from work, there's probably only one person (besides my husband) who would know to look for me by this user name, and I kinda doubt he would care to look. The US government is already following millions of people, so I don't care if they know I might be a person with AS.

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