Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Can this happen Dust? I will donate however much you say to Phatmass if you make this happen. I'm praying to Mary right now you say yes. If it's alright with you I will post under a new account. Thanks! Edited October 28, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccountDeleted Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 If this can be done, I would like mine deleted too. If it is simply a matter of cost, I will pay as well. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Just log out and don't come back. You have complete control of the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Edited October 28, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 What is the reason? The problem with deleting accounts is that if someone goes back to read a conversation it will be confusing with missing people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) What is the reason? The problem with deleting accounts is that if someone goes back to read a conversation it will be confusing with missing people. It will be a blessing to me and beneficial to the Body Of Christ and Pagans if they don't have to read my past post. And a little confusion is good everyonce in awhile. Heck the Koran goes as far as to say God is the deceiver of all deceivers. I'm thinking they got that one wrong. I'll donate 500 to Phatmass if you say yes. I will donate a 1000 if there's a way to keep this account and delete post from a certain date to the opening of the account. For example delete post from 2009 to 2003. Edited October 28, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccountDeleted Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) @dUSt Well, I certainly can't afford to pay $500 or $1000 but I can pay something more reasonable (for me), and am open to negotiations, if that's what it takes. As for worrying about confusion for past posts, it seems to me that everyone jumped down Didacus' throat when he resurrected old posts, so maybe it isn't really that important to save the old ones for posterity anyway. Some people were suggesting that the old ones be deleted or archived or something. I know that I have posted things in the past (I joined in 2007 so there have been quite a few) that embarrass me now and I would like them all gone. Occasionally someone will resurrect an old thread where I have posted something that is no longer representative of how I think or feel, and it might still appear that this is me today. I also know I have a history here under my current user name and a lot of people here who simply don't like me. I had originally planned to do what Winchester said and just log out forever, but there are still some posters on here I like to read, and if I ever do want to post in the future, I would like to do it under a name that no one knows, so there isn't this immediate antipathy to everything I post. As for confusion about missing posts, when you or a Mediator of Meh delete something (like a recent unsourced quote), the rest of us don't know what has been deleted or is being discussed, so there is a certain amount of confusion around that -- but we all manage to cope with not knowing what was posted. Given this, I am assuming that the whole forum won't be thrown into disarray from not being able to read my old posts, especially as so many of them were in VS and were personal, about my attempts to live religious life. My failures haunt me and it would help with healing if the posts about my hopes and dreams would disappear. On most sites (including Facebook), a person can delete their old posts and then delete the account. This is the only forum I have been on where that isn't possible. And yet, I know some people on here who have been allowed to change their user name, so obviously exceptions to rules are allowed. I am just asking you to take it that next step further, delete the account and the old posts, and then if I want to join again in future, I am happy to tell you it is me, and you can choose whether or not to register me then. I suppose that if you allow this for one or two people, then others might want the same thing, and this could be a problem for you. But at the moment, there are only two of us asking for this and we could be the exceptions to the rule. Josh has his reasons, I have mine. I do believe it will help me to get beyond a lot of the anger and resentment I have about certain things that have happened to me on Phatmass (refer the thread about how other people can make you want to leave the faith - sometimes I feel this way when I am on Phatmass, and yet I know it isn't the Church's fault there are so many unkind people here). When I complain though, I am called too sensitive or other negative things. I don't attract the sympathy that Iggy does when she complains about how she felt at Cam's posts because (according to veritasluxmea) I am perceived as being 'hard'. I'm tired of being called names and want to leave, but I also want my footprint erased. Anyway, those are my reasons. I leave it in your hands of course. If praying for it helps (Josh obviously hopes it will), then I am praying that you grant this request for me as well. That's all. Thanks for reading dUSt. I will log off now and stay that way unless there is something that you post that requires a response from me. Otherwise, consider this my goodbye thread as well as a request. There were some good years - I miss them. Edited October 28, 2015 by nunsense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I still think Phatmass is great. I like the people here. I like Jamie. I just really want a bunch of my old post erased. Really everything before the aa thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I smell a new revenue opportunity @dUSt. An answer to your server bill prayers. Take the money!!! Do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I still think Phatmass is great. I like the people here. I like Jamie. I just really want a bunch of my old post erased. Really everything before the aa thread. Who you are now overshadows who you were or thought you were back then. Besides, nobody but Didacus looks back at those old threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintOfVirtue Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Who you are now overshadows who you were or thought you were back then. Besides, nobody but Didacus looks back at those old threads. I look back at those old threads. I've been guilty of necromancing them as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnatiusofLoyola Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Nunsense--I wish you didn't feel this way. And, I love your user name. I've noticed that you have grown SO much in the years I have known you--you are kinder, softer, funnier now. If someone digs out one of your very old threads, you can reply that you are not the same person now. But, that's easy for me to say. VS needs you because you have so much experience of religious life. If you find other threads are making you upset or emotional, perhaps you could stick to VS for awhile. I can get overly emotional, especially when I'm even more physically sick or depressed than usual. I have been trying to train myself to simply ignore threads that I know will set me off, but that is easier said than done. Also, I have tried to train myself to just walk away from the computer when I am getting emotionally upset (obviously, I don't always succeed). One thing I have succeeded at doing is turning off my computer 2 hours before I go to bed because I sleep better that way. This helps me stay properly distanced from Phatmass, but I also miss a lot. (Indwelling Trinity logged in the other evening and I missed her. If anyone on Phatmass should be made a Saint it is Indwelling Trinity.) I also appreciate you Nunsense because several of the people I most valued who have left are older posters. (Don't ask me to strictly define "older"--it could be 40, 50, 60--but you know what I mean. We've talked about this before.) One thing that Phatmass helps me with is keeping in touch with how younger people think and feel, since I have no children or grandchildren to teach me this, and my niece and nephew are thousands of miles away. But, I also appreciate the point of view of people who are older, with some scars, but are wiser for it. I apologise Nunsense because I should have told you all this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax17 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Nunsense, I'm with Iggy...I wish you felt differently. I too miss many of the older posters. I've followed your journey for many years, with great respect. You've taught me a lot. Whatever you decide, go in peace and know that you will be remembered fondly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Is that a yes or no ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Who you are now overshadows who you were or thought you were back then. Besides, nobody but Didacus looks back at those old threads. I made a lot of post when I was really wasted and I don't want to be able to google it and see it. I'm hoping Dust can make this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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