How to escape the East Dulwich Forum

[wavyline girl]

Can anyone tell me how to escape this site?

I would like to "unsubscribe".

Its OK for buying,selling and advertising an event,but beyond that - questionable!

So if anyone knows how to remove details from the EDF database, please let me know.

Thanks

[healey]

An internet flounce? How about simply not visiting EDF?

[ed_pete]

Try the Ask Admin thread in the "About this forum" section

[*Bob*]

Step one is to post a big flouncy message - right at the top of the general issues section - for all to see. You've got this covered so that's a good start.

Next, you can either:

- quietly send a PM to admin and ask them to unsubscribe you

Or

- just stop posting in the bits you can't be arsed with and use it for buying and selling.

Good luck - let us know how you get on.

[wavyline girl]

I thought I have written to the admin people before, but I don't think I got a response.

Surely I am entitled to have my details removed from the site, if I request it?

I will try again.

Thanks I do appreciate any constructive advice

(? and not the smug, snide,caustic mean spirited variety,which is exactly the reason I dislike this site so much!)

[steveo]

Call me smug, snide and caustic but the bigger the flounce the better in my book

[Otta]

wavyline girl Wrote:

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> Surely I am entitled to have my details removed

> from the site, if I request it?

What details?

I suspect your name isn't actually Wavyline girl, and unless you're a complete muppet (which I am sure you're not) I doubt you've shared your DOB, address or credit card numbers, so what's to be removed other than things that you have typed and chosen to put on a public domain?

Admin can deactivate your account, so if people click on your name it will say "this poster no longer exists or something like that, but they're not going to go back and manually delete every post you've made.

[Otta]

Is this just because people weren't sypathetic enough about the whole scooter / skateboard incident?

[Fly]

I think we should be allowed to leave (I don't want to). For people who wish to leave I think their posts should delete or at least become anonymous. They are searchable on the Internet. This site is closed to posts but not to reading.

[BrandNewGuy]

Ah, the right to be forgotten - now being used by the embarrassed and powerful to censor Google:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/eu-right-to-be-forgotten-guardian-google

[Siduhe]

You can edit your posts if you want to remove your posting history. Just go in and edit to replace with "." Then just log out.

[KidKruger]

Or just act like a total twat with offensive posts and get banned from EDF by Admin.

[Otta]

As Siduhe says, you can edit anything you've previously written, but why should admin (unpaid volunteers) waste their time doing that.

I am not certain, but I think it would mean them having to do it post by post rather than having a "delete all posts by joe blogs" button.

[Jacqui5254]

wavyline girl...is it because you want to take back what you said?

[Zebedee Tring]

Having had a look at wavyline girl's comment re the skateboard incident, it seems to me that she was justified in being annoyed. I don't know why certain people are being unkind to her on this thread

[Robert Poste's Child]

Some of the posts in this thread illustrate the kind of attitude that has made plenty of people leave the forum in the past. It doesn't seem an outrageous request to be able either to 'delete my account' or ask Admin to do it.

[wavyline girl]

-- moved topic --

[Siduhe]

As I understand it, the software the forum runs on doesn't allow for anything other than entire deletion of threads that user has been involved in as part of a deactivation. So everyone loses out because one person doesn't want their posts to survive. It's fairly old software and this forum is managed by a group of volunteers who I would guess have plenty of other things to do. If someone feels that strongly, the option exists to go back and edit.

So not an outrageous request at all, but not very practical for here I would guess.

[HelBel65]

Sounds to me like the original poster just wants to unsubscribe ie not receive emails from EDF any more. Isn't the best way to do that to go to My Control Centre/show followed threads and uncheck anything there? Works for me!

[Saffron]

Be sure to come back under a pseudonym and thwart all the posters who annoyed you. But don't forget to make your new identity look real by posting on a few random threads first...

[Robert Poste's Child]

I think if she was planning to do that she wouldn't have approached it in this way. Personally I sympathise with her and I find it understandable that someone could want to remove their presence completely. Most of the threads are pretty ephemeral anyway so I don't see that it would ruin things for other users. Who knows, might even encourage better manners in some. I know that some of the longtime users don't like people to use the word bullying, but if you ridicule, criticise or attack someone repeatedly, especially when you carry it on after the original disagreement or into another thread, that's what it is by normal standards.

[the-e-dealer]

I run a clinic its ?200 a day. We have all the stuff even a pretend EDF to help you get off.

[Otta]

Zebedee Tring Wrote:

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> Having had a look at wavyline girl's comment re

> the skateboard incident, it seems to me that she

> was justified in being annoyed. I don't know why

> certain people are being unkind to her on this

> thread

If you mean me, I wasn't having a go about the skate board thing, was just asking if that had been the trigger.

Other than that all I've done is try to explain what admin can and can't do (as far as I know - I don't claim to know the exact capabilities of this software).

I don't think there has been anything "unkind".

[edcam]

Howzabout just not logging in again? But presumably that Would be too simple and wouldn't fulfil your need for affirmation. Which this post just gave you.

[Zebedee Tring]

I wasn't actually talking about you Otta - but to my mind, if not yours, there have been some unkind posts on this thread.