How do I unsubscribe from this forum?

[dreamcatcher]

I wish to unsubscribe from this forum and delete all posts as well as any personal information. Any way to do this?

[Ghoste]

I think most of that you can do on your own in your profile but if you are trying to vanish completely you may need Troy to do a deep erase.

[Troy]

Simple answer - you can't. You can edit your own profile and I can close/lock your account. However, anything you've posted on the site that is publicly viewable never goes away. If I were to delete your threads it would also delete all responses from other members in those threads. Without permission from everyone who ever wrote anything related to your posts that's not fair to them. If I tried to delete just your posts it still wouldn't delete the posts of anyone who had ever quoted you. In the event that you could actually be erased completely from this site (which is a complicated and very time-consuming task), it still wouldn't matter much as all content is constantly searched, stored, indexed, and aggregated by all the major search engines. Pretty much once you put anything in public on the internet you can't make it go away.

Having said that, it's the policy of this site to never delete anything. Even seemingly insignificant questions have benefit to others long after the fact. This site seeks to preserve as much collected knowledge as possible. The discussion format has a way of weaving together input from many sources to provide a better, more complete understanding of the topic at hand. Losing all - or even pieces - of that discussion can severely impact the usefulness of the site. I may be able to selectively remove information as long as it doesn't negatively alter the overall discussion but, again, just because you can't see it here doesn't mean that it has gone away.

Troy

[Ghoste]

So it's like joining a cult?

[JB400]

So it's like joining a cult?

I think it'd compare more to the mafia.  Many cults die out after a generation or two.  Mafias and other secret organizations tend to last quite a few centuries.

[68X426]

So it's like joining a cult?

I think it'd compare more to the mafia.  Many cults die out after a generation or two.  Mafias and other secret organizations tend to last quite a few centuries.

Don't you mean the IRS? 

Any way, sounds like dreamcatcher might have had a bad dream. Now he wants out of the matrix. Too late.

[Ghoste]

Welcome to the Hotel Charger....

[A383Wing]

the "IN" door works fine....the "OUT" door is stuck shut

[resq302]

Chargers checking but they don't check out!   

[Fred]

Welcome to the Hotel Charger....

   You can check out any time you like.............but you can never leave.

[Cooter]

They come back...They always come back.

[Fred]

And even if they don't..........they're already here!

[A383Wing]

They come back...They always come back.

Did the monkeys or the ducks come back?

(Fred is still here)

[superbirdtom]

WoW  dreamcatcher   I sure would like to keep in touch, Tom  907-617-1527  Alaska    are you still working up on the slope?

[A383Wing]

He's still here, he checked back in today

[68X426]

He's still here, he checked back in today

So he took the red pill. 

[nvrbdn]

well, I don't want mine deleted.......  ever.

                      I want to live on these pages forever.


    well maybe delete the part I was involved in about the monkeys and the boat and the...... oh never mind.

[twodko]

He's still here, he checked back in today

So he took the red pill. 

Now that's funny right there!

You can never leave the Mopar Yakuza. 

[Fred]

well, I don't want mine deleted.......  ever.

                      I want to live on these pages forever.


    well maybe delete the part I was involved in about the monkeys and the boat and the...... oh never mind.

Geez Jim, you've got to stop taking those pills.    You're hallucinating again!   

[nvrbdn]