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airbiscuit
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If a person wants to be done with this site, then unsubscribe to all threads, and For God's Sake, QUIT POSTING!
k0ua
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I was thinking the same thing. What on earth does it matter if you are taken off of a membership role? I can't even imagine why it would matter to anyone. If you don't want to participate any more stop posting, stop reading and stop browsing to this site. End of story. Full stop. Master switch off.
MossRoad
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I wouldn't know. Why don't you PM the owners of the site and ask them?
Rock knocker
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Remove you like make all your posts go away? That takes a lot of effort. If you don't like this place just take a hike and have the self control to not post anymore. Nobody will miss you.
Rock knocker
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The things some people get mad about
tcreeley
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People come and go. What makes this a good forum is that the posts are archived. It is a trove of information. Jinma (since passed) was the expert on NH in my book. I can still go back and look at what advice he gave people on specific problems. And having it all search-able makes it just that much better!
Friendly politics- lost access, never asked to rejoin. It was a continuous snowball fight with mud. Maybe someday....! Now just do that on FB!
- One learns a lot from others- how they think, approach life, and good "life/tractor hacks".
Friendly politics- lost access, never asked to rejoin. It was a continuous snowball fight with mud. Maybe someday....! Now just do that on FB!
- One learns a lot from others- how they think, approach life, and good "life/tractor hacks".
Oops, my bad... Sorry about that.
One thing that chaps my butt is the "Most users ever online was 23,693, 02-13-2012 at 09:52 PM." There was a software glitch and was double (??Triple??) counting everyone. Also, I would estimate at least 10,000(??) post were "Double" posting, shoot maybe more
Technically we could remove all posts of a banned member but anybody who quoted them would still have those quotes in the messages, which would just create a mess in the discussions that included posts by a banned member.
If you were previously banned, reinstatement is always an eventual possibility which is why we leave the posts and the account on the site.
I'd say 9 out of 10 times somebody asks us to delete an account they are doing so in haste and after a few days reconsider their request. If we were to delete the account and thousands of posts, there would be no way to restore it without shutting the entire site down, merging from a backup, etc, which would literally cost us about $1,000 in fees since we pay by the hour for that type of database work.
Granted, if somebody is really sure that they want to leave and never ever return and are okay with their account being lost, we could change their username to guest and reassign all posts, thereby removing their name/username/signature from the site. But we'd have the rights to keep the content on the site.
Whenever we get a request to remove old content that could be harmful or damaging to a member, we comply with those requests.
If you were previously banned, reinstatement is always an eventual possibility which is why we leave the posts and the account on the site.
I'd say 9 out of 10 times somebody asks us to delete an account they are doing so in haste and after a few days reconsider their request. If we were to delete the account and thousands of posts, there would be no way to restore it without shutting the entire site down, merging from a backup, etc, which would literally cost us about $1,000 in fees since we pay by the hour for that type of database work.
Granted, if somebody is really sure that they want to leave and never ever return and are okay with their account being lost, we could change their username to guest and reassign all posts, thereby removing their name/username/signature from the site. But we'd have the rights to keep the content on the site.
Whenever we get a request to remove old content that could be harmful or damaging to a member, we comply with those requests.
airbiscuit
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Ahhhh, the voice of reason. This was never anything more than a solution in search of a problem.
k0ua
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Agreed..
/pine
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Yikes...seems like it would pay you to keen up on SQL...it's one of the easiest languages to learn for being so powerful...it's also one of the most unforgiving though...
It's really quite fun manipulating large databases with just a few commands...sort of makes you "feel like god"...
ultrarunner
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As someone with Mod experience we would do the same... if the poster requested something deleted would try to comply or edit... sometimes the thread would be locked...
Deleting entire threads is a worst case with established threads and creates bad feelings for those not involved.
Of course spammers are banned on the spot... almost always new members posting nothing remotely related with links to other sites...
We, as a group are fortunate to have a resource like TBN... learned a lot here and not just about tractors... the politics section is good too... if it gets too much simply unsubscribe.
TBN has also helped me to spend a lot of money...
Deleting entire threads is a worst case with established threads and creates bad feelings for those not involved.
Of course spammers are banned on the spot... almost always new members posting nothing remotely related with links to other sites...
We, as a group are fortunate to have a resource like TBN... learned a lot here and not just about tractors... the politics section is good too... if it gets too much simply unsubscribe.
TBN has also helped me to spend a lot of money...
k0ua
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That's the most important part!
like the "Pony" thread about her ex- a wonderful (yet, strange for TBN) thread!!! I understand why it disappeared!!!
MossRoad
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It's really quite fun manipulating large databases with just a few commands...sort of makes you "feel like god"...
Make you "feel like dog" when you screw it up.
I did SQL maintenance for many years.... never messed it up myself. But spent many a night doing bulk outs to new databases, or restores from backup because of others' errors in judgment.
One thing we had to decide when backing up databases is what is your acceptable level of having to redo a bunch of entries VS how much computing power you had to do restores from the transaction log or the entire database, or from tape, in a 24/7 operation.... We were limited in computing power and we were limited in storage space and we were limited in tape backup and restore time and we were limited in our windows to do restores due to 24/7 ops..... it could be a pressure cooker at times. Man, I hated that. Not the pressure cooker part, but the constraints caused by the limited time we had to do things.
why can't a member just be expunged from the register? I have no concern that the the members posts are archived, that is reasonable. I don't think it's reasonable to keep a member captive forever, even as a guest.
