Forums, Accounts and Data Protection

Mauldor · 02-05-2005, 05:44

Here is a Interesting one I am hoping someone can shed some light on, as you know you join a forum and information is held. Now lets say you wanted the account you created deleted. The simple answer is of course to PM the admins and ask them nicely but If they say No - then is this allowed?

I am not talking about this forum btw, but another one, running Vbulletin also. I felt that I would rather my account be wriped out then simply me deleting the Fav and not going back sort of thing.

So what is the best plan here? Just not go back or should i pursue for my account to be deleted - maybe some legal document somewhere...

bmxbandit · 02-05-2005, 10:11

go to your profile and replace all the data with dummy values. after that, i'd just leave it.

Mauldor · 02-05-2005, 12:09

Ok that sounds fair enough to me....
Personally I do not know what the Issue was, I was not asking for the posts to be deleted etc just my account...Ill go do that now...ta

Florence · 02-05-2005, 12:16

Have to say I am suprised they refused we have just deleted one at their request including all posts the account had ever posted. Made some threads reaqd out of context but we still removed the account. We never refuse or ask why just do it. I personally never do those that request them I leave them to Mark as he is admin I just remove those who spam us or are abusive to our members and continue after warnings.

poolking · 02-05-2005, 12:17

It depends how much information you have given in your profile?

Just go back and delete all the info in your profile that you can and put n/a in the ones where you have to have info.

bmxbandit · 02-05-2005, 12:32

if you're feelng spiteful, edit all your posts to link to a picture of goatse or tubgirl or something similar

(if you dont know what those pics are, you dont want to know. even if you do know, you probably wish you didn't

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if that doesnt get you banned, nothing will!

Mauldor · 02-05-2005, 18:32

I was a MOD on the site, we had a disagreement (me + smod) and I got reported to admin. Basically I then asked for my account to be deleted and I would not come back sort of thing. I was then Suprised that my request for account deletion was denied. On a forum I ran I happily delete people shoudl they ask this of me.

Anyhow, the only Post I did was a Good bye type post and left. I have changed everyting in the profile, password and email etc and deleted the Fav - best I can do really - I would have preffered the account to be gone for good (peace of mind sort of thing) but never mind. If they removed all my posts - the section I modded in would be nearly empty to be honest. I suppose if I was a Nasty person I could have edited every single one of my posts (1000 odd) and removed all info from them...but this is not me..

My main question really was that I am sure there is a law of Data Protection and my infomation if you like is held on that computer - I thought maybe it was in my right to ask for the account to be deleted but alas it seems not. Oh well - thanks for the info anyhooo...

bmxbandit · 02-05-2005, 19:20

i think posting on a messageboard is regarded as being published, so you probably don't have a lot of say in what happens to your posts. As for your profle, it should really be deleted, but you can do all that yourself.

that's about all you can do