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I wanna to get my fread deleted but the moderotors said it is site policy that they cannot delete it. What kind of age do we live in where the person who started the thread has no say weather it stays enternally on the internet for anyone to view or is deleted. Please can i have my thread deleted called "storing players names".
Well it wasn't a particularly offensive thread, and it had useful information. Someone else may learn from it. That's why they keep them around.
Quzah.
why wound it matter if it was offenseve it is still my thread i sohuld had a right on if it stays or not surelly/?
Well , it's not really "your" thread. It's the forum's thread, and by using the forum you automatically agree to let the forum admins deals with such questions. If you are worried about plagiarism or anything like that, perhaps you shouldn't have asked other people to work on your assignment in the first place and check with your instructor if this is acceptable first.
Nope. I'm assuming that there are some posts to that thread that you feel might make you look like a plagerist? Just be sure to rewrite everything "in your own words", and you should be fine. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by billet
"Oh man, I just called everyone a jackass, and I used my real name as my username! I wish I could delete that so future employers don't find out what a dork I was!"Quote:
Originally Posted by billet
Some people have second thoughts about what they post. You can make a pretty good argument for getting your post removed. Since however it was just "how do I do this"/"this is how", it wasn't anything offensive to anyone, and was more instructive.
You can argue better for keeping instructive posts online, than you can for keeping offensive posts online (unless you just don't care at all one way or the other and feel like keeping all/getting rid of all indiscriminately). That was my point.
Quzah.
Thank you my friend for your kind feedback and calling me a jackass your very intelligent gentlemen. I have been on numerous forums before and can remove your own post/threads yourself why not this one?
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Originally Posted by quzah
He didn't call you a jackass. You entitled so yourself. Read his post again.
haha i see what you mean my friend your all so clever and funny here. has you guys used other forums where you can delete posts because i have.
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Originally Posted by claudiu
So I beat my last three girlfriends up, why not this one too? Is this suppose to be some kind of argument? Grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by billet
The question is not whether or not you wrote the thread. The question is whether it is your forum or not. If I walk thru a mall and then demand the CCTV tapes because "it is me on the tape", what do you think the answer is? If you don't want to appear on tape, don't stand in front of the camera.
If you want to post on billetprogramming.com, you can probably erase your threads as much as you like.
oh your wrong my friend in UK there is a data protection act where you can get yourself removed from CCTV at your request and the goverment cannot stop you. I hope that has helped.
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Originally Posted by MK27
Well this is not the UK. Nor does this forum comply to British law!Quote:
Originally Posted by billet
yes you are correct again but i am in the UK and anyone in UK can view it.
Well look, I am going to put aside the fact that I think you are whining for no reason and try to treat you fairly for a second.
Most likely, admins are going to close your thread because of the big fuss you have made regarding it. (however, I hope they don't!)
If you didn't want your code or intellectual property public YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE POSTED IT ON A FORUM! CAPISCI? People here don't give a rat's ass about whatever you want to write in your program and just try to provide help IN THEIR OWN SPARE TIME. If you can't appreciate that, you shouldn't be here in the first place. If you are worried about someone else in the UK seeing it perhaps you should have checked with whomever you are concerned might be seeing this in the first place.
Last of all, I think you are paranoid. Nobody has that much time to waste time looking to "get you" for whatever you posted on some forum.
I hope you don't take offense at this, but I really can't put it anymore clear than I already have.
Worst case scenario if you're going to school - your professor or TA sees that you were getting help on this forum. If they have a problem with it - take it to the Dean.
Nobody is mad at you, it's all cool.
Which is completely irrelevant. You are on a private forum, with private local rules that you chose to abide by when you created your account. It's not our fault that you didn't read them all before posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by billet
Quzah.
thanks you for your understanding but i am paranoid for a reason, the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much. People have their identitys, locations and work taken from the internet that why i am making such a big fuss. I appreciate the help just dont understand why isn't there a button to delete your posts? I hope the moderators understand my concerns too
If you were so scared, why didn't you make your user name 12ABC34XYZ or something completely arbitrary--and generate a completely different arbitrary username for every site you ever log into? We've already explained why there aren't buttons to delete your posts.
What would happen if everyone with over 5000 posts decided to hit the button all on the same day? The site would lose a massive number of informational posts. Sure, we BS and shoot the bull from time to time, but on rare occasion, I do actually provide something useful.
There's a chance that someone else may come along with the sort of issue you needed help with, and received help with, and they may learn from that. If you didn't need help -- you didn't need to learn something -- why did you come here to ask for help? So it's OK for you to ask for help, and to receive it, but it's not OK for someone else with the same issue to benefit from the help you received?
That's pretty selfish.
Quzah.
B**S**TQuote:
Originally Posted by billet
You may enjoy this one tho:
deadheaduk » Talk to Frank
ps. you can delete your posts, you just need to learn to use the interface.
hmm swearing? against forum policy? if you do some research dude you will realise i am telling the truth the goverment cannot keep your CCTV tapes if you ask them not too its called data protection act. anyway....
my username is quite random tbh if that many ppl decided to hit the delete button then the website content cant be good. Looks like my case is different, sorry for sounding sellfish but it doesnt make sense to have a website policy like this
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Originally Posted by quzah
You can't please everyone all the time. Likewise, one person cannot understand every concept. This (the benefit of not deleting posts) appears to be one you cannot understand. Accept it and move on.
Quzah.
I assume you mean this Data Protection Act. Section 10 sounds promising (Right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress), but that does not mean anybody has to destroy the tapes; only that it cannot process them (and of course you have to be prepared to claim damage or distress). Section 14 (Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction) also sounds promising, but you can only apply to have things erased if you can prove to the satisfaction of a judge that the data on the tape is inaccurate. I don't see any other sections that provide for elimination of data.
(Not that this has anything to do with the actual question at hand, of course.)
good research dude but there have been many people in the UK who have have had their tapes of them CCTV burnt even though it was nothing to do with anything. Data can be eliminated as long as if there is no criminal offence taking place
Such as taking pics of West Minster Abbey or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by billet
Police stop church photographer under terrorism powers | UK news | The Guardian
Keep it up and we send the "cboard rendition squad" -- everybody knows yer boys will practically fall over one another in their eagerness to help out ;)
I think you can delete your thread within a certain timeframe, if it has had no replies.
You can also delete your posts to any thread within a certain timeframe(I think within hour).
I think the idea is, once other people have posted in the thread, the thread is not yours anymore. People volunteered their time to respond knowing their response will help not only you, but also other people with the same question.
That is the basic premise of the concept of a forum. If you just want one on one help that no one else can benefit from, email works just as well.
By removing "your" thread, you are devaluing all the effort everyone has put in to this thread.
I probably won't reply to any thread if I know they will be removed by the author once the author's question is answered, and I won't be surprised if many people think the same way. For the same reason, many of us won't help over PM, IM or e-mail, because why help only 1 person when you can help many with the same amount of time?
Forums also encourage discussion. Even as we are answering questions, we are learning from each other at the same time. Personally, that's what attracted me to this forum.
I will answer questions, and people will jump in and tell me I am wrong, and so I learn.
"Your" thread is not really yours.
Now is a good time to mention that, yes, the forum is searchable, and many answered questions can be easily found. This has more benefit to people who will search in the first place, but I've seen it happen, and tried it myself. In fact if you say "I already looked at the W thread, but I still don't understand X, I want to do Y," then more people might reply to you, and theoretically give you a better answer, because you tried.
Think of it like we're all lazy bastards, I guess, but a forum is for archival.
Closed folowing request
This is forum policy. It is clearly stated at the top of every programing forum in the [url=http://cboard.cprogramming.com/cplusplus-programming/announcement-homework.html]homework[/ur] announcement. If you don't want your request for help public, don't make it publicly.
We are a community that encourages people to learn from each other. That means having the ability to learn from other people's questions and ideas. Our more experienced members give their time and knowledge to help others learn. They don't post just to answer the one question, but also so anyone else can learn from it as well. Thus, we do not delete threads simply to hide ideas from other people. It defeats the purpose of this kind of public forum. I know this can be troublesome or upsetting to some people - especially those asking for help on homework assignments - that is why the policy is so clearly stated.