Deleting WP presence

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Let the word go forth. Anyone who wants to remain invisible must stay off line.

If you never log in anywhere, you don't exist.

Also do not have a bank account, birth certificate or a social security number or taxpayer id.

ruveyn

Use copyrighted material in every post ?

or get someone else to copyright your user name *lol*

Yeah, I have always thought about that!
If I ever make a forum Im starting to wonder if I should put a delete function in for that very purpose.
I think the reason why they dont allow deleting incase if someone where to bully some one via a topic, they could delete it and deny any claims of that ever happening.
But I have a solution. A user can delete a post, but only mods can see it. Although, that (I assume) would still be infringement, but the copyright holder probably wouldn't find out. I might be wrong, but thats what I think. Im certainly no lawyer.

On WP we tend to remove posts or threads rather than delete them. They are moved into a hidden forum that only moderators can see. That way if there has been a mistake or if there is any issue about those posts in the future they can still be referred to. After those posts have been moved into the hidden forum they are no longer visible to Google or any other search engine.

DELETE(ing) every post by a given user is actually a really easy thing to do (at least from this forums database) it simply requires the typing of DELETE FROM <whatever they call the post table> WHERE <UserId <- the most likely name of the field> = <persons UserId> into the correct interface (sometimes attainable by illegal methods but it is highly unlikely to find an unparameterized query string nowadays)

Among hacker communities people are often identified by their public key or other encrypted means. I can think of multiple likely methods (if given some knowledge of the backend) of hiding usernames from bots of any source. With the advent of the Tor network and Freenet gateways to the regular internet one can find many ways of being relatively certain that no one is going to trace back your forum posts to you. While I have not played much with Tor sites it might be a reasonable way to create a site where you could be 90% certain that no one that is going to care can reasonably trace your posts back to you (Freenet is another possibility but it is incredibly slow). The internet is a wide and diverse place. If there is a desire for a site with the utmost of privacy available it can be created if we get together a fair group of like minded Aspies. I for one feel no need to hide my identity to that extreme but I would probably find great joy in figuring out how to set something up with that level/sort of security.

I am by no means a security expert I do however tend to have a lot of time on my hands that I like to dedicate to studying if anyone would like to join me.

Maybe a solution could be to make most subforums viewable to guests but topics that are more than 3 months old are only viewable to members. I also think The Haven, L&D, and a lot of those forums where people get very personal should be completely off limits to guests