JimmySeal Wrote:

resolve Wrote:(BROKEN LINK) http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=70280#p70280

Very funny. I hope my modified post is more to your liking.

The fact that the thread was closed does explain it.

Anyway, Fabrice may be able to clear up the mystery by looking at the web logs and checking to see the user agent of the client deleting the posts, and whether the deletions are indicative of a script or human laboriously deleting each post.

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Doing a search on her posts with "Show as Posts" only lists four pages.

That's pretty insane that (presumably)she went and deleted 1000+ of her own posts.

Regardless of her intentions, this is definitely over the line. Awhile back I had disabled "delete topics" but I realized I still left "Delete posts".

They are both disabled now. I apologize this wasn't done earlier.




You can still edit all your posts if you want to, but it shouldn't be too easy to go back and delete hundreds of posts; something which will most likely be done on a whim, at the expense of everyone else who is following the conversations.

I was wondering what happened to Icecream as well.

Weird, we normally email back and forth every few weeks. Seemed fine last time, I hope nothing's wrong. I believe she'll be back from Japan now, perhaps just having withdrawal symptoms.

edit: She's been banned??

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IceCream's posts IP is a fixed IP from Japan since Nov or Dec 2010.

The same IP has edited her last (undeleted) post January 25.

This same IP accessed the forum 07/Feb/2011. So either she is still in Japan or someone else accesses her account.

I'm banning her account for the time being because that is suspicious. Ban message is "Deleting hundreds of posts without telling anybody. Please contact the admin.". I'm sure she can find the contact form on the main site if she means to.

Also I wonder how acceptable this is, and whether this should be ground for banning in the future.

Last but not least, why the drama? The most conventional explanation is she's done this on a whim. Unless someone has evidence otherwise, there is really no reason to believe that anything terrible happened to her.

Travelling abroad are pretty emotional times. Personally I had a panic attack once in Japan and once in India. Lots of emotions and lots of life questions and so on.

But if you delete your posts, don't they just go to the dustbin? And the admin can restore them later if necessary?

I've been busy lately, so I haven't noticed anything about IceCream's absence.

“I'm banning her account for the time being because that is suspicious. Ban message is "Deleting hundreds of posts without telling anybody. Please contact the admin.". I'm sure she can find the contact form on the main site if she means to.”

That seems like making the punishment for suicide be death. If she is trying to sever her connections to this site it wont matter.

Maybe someone from her workplace found out about her identity on this forum after reading this thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7147

That could explain why she wants to delete all of her posts. I think that forum members should have a right to protect their privacy if they want to.

Well, she was trying to learn some basic programming, right? She probably just created a hyper-intelligent AI by accident. Don't worry, we'll all be assimilated soon enough.

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wccrawford Wrote:I didn't see anything happen to her, but I've definitely been verbally (character-ally?) attacked on this site.

Really? Anything that we haven't seen everyday in message board communication woes?

As an admin I can't intervene every time someone calls you an idiot. I have to intervene when people become really foulmouthed and/or repeatedly target their negativity at one person.

It was publicly posted and nothing was done about it. I didn't bother to complain about it, just filed it away as 'hostile' and went on with my life.

I never said this wasn't a nice board, I simply said that I've been attacked and it's possible she was, too. It happens everywhere and is one of the biggest causes of rage quits.

wccrawford Wrote:It was publicly posted and nothing was done about it. I didn't bother to complain about it, just filed it away as 'hostile' and went on with my life.

I never said this wasn't a nice board, I simply said that I've been attacked and it's possible she was, too. It happens everywhere and is one of the biggest causes of rage quits.

Are you talking about my hostility in this thread?. If so: hostile - yes, personal attack - no. I hope you're not talking about that. I did actually think of messaging you at the time to say I didn't mean any offence, but I decided that my point was valid if expressed a little strongly.

I was reading IceCreams posts and threads with interest the last couple of months. And even i found it rather strange to find her posting in a thread about motivation that she thanks everyone for the mental support, but she will quit, and just keep those things she has learned in the past. Time moves on but the thing she "deleted" her posts or at least edited them, is the strange part in this story.

As you all now, we are on the Internet, and even the fact she edited and deleted most of her posts does not mean they are not there any longer. Do a Google search if you still want to find out more - maybe someone finds a post with Google Cache that sheds some more light on this. Maybe she has explained it somewhere but deleted it also?

It wasn't the one I was thinking of, but "Learn to read, then come and join the adult discussion." is clearly a personal attack.

wccrawford Wrote:It wasn't the one I was thinking of, but "Learn to read, then come and join the adult discussion." is clearly a personal attack.

It wasn't meant as one, just a snide way of saying the longer sentence "one should carefully read sources before quoting them spuriously in debate", which was simply a reflection on your post. Honestly, not in any way meant to be personal and I hope it didn't discourage you from taking part in discussions. Sorry for my tone, it was inappropriate.

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gyuujuice Wrote:That seems like making the punishment for suicide be death. If she is trying to sever her connections to this site it wont matter.

If she is, but she continues to peruse the forum (same IP) or register with a new name, then she should come clean about it. Nobody's gonna hold it on her if she does so. But to delete hundreds of posts silently like that is not acceptable, even if the option was there.

I banned her to prevent her from registering with a new name and surprise everyone in the same way a few months later. And secondarily, because it's very selfish to delete all her posts, literally, since she equates her self with an avatar and words posted on a public board. That's silly, nobody knows who "IceCream" is except her personal relations. If you post stuff and you want to sever ties, put a dummy email, and quit visiting the forum.

Love the way that thread ends. LMAO.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...1#pid99751

I'm sure she's fine, although it does seem suspicious about all those posts being deleted

Nagareboshi Wrote:As you all now, we are on the Internet, and even the fact she edited and deleted most of her posts does not mean they are not there any longer. Do a Google search if you still want to find out more - maybe someone finds a post with Google Cache that sheds some more light on this. Maybe she has explained it somewhere but deleted it also?

Googlecache updates quickly, they'll be gone soon! Big post about her plans for 2011 in here (scroll down a bit):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...ogle.co.uk

Best guess, she ain't going to Japan now and has quit learning...but then we shouldn't speculate..

ファブリス Wrote:And secondarily, because it's very selfish to delete all her posts, literally, since she equates her self with an avatar and words posted on a public board. That's silly, nobody knows who "IceCream" is except her personal relations. If you post stuff and you want to sever ties, put a dummy email, and quit visiting the forum.

To be fair, her personal email address is pretty much the same as her username - so a friend/family/work colleague could have made the connection if they searched around a little bit. But at the same time, she could have deleted personal stuff without breaking so many informative learning threads..

IceCream had replied to both of my posts here, vigorously defending the ability to delete posts. She deleted the content of the second one 15 minutes after posting it.
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid78758

bladethecoder Wrote:IceCream had replied to both of my posts here, vigorously defending the ability to delete posts. She deleted the content of the second one 15 minutes after posting it.
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid78758

I think sane deletion/edit rules should apply. Editing a post after a month is obviously too much, but 1 minute is obviously too short of a limit. Finding a sane middle-ground is the problem.

After you post, it doesn't belong to you any more. It belongs to the community. In return, you get to read other people's posts and gain knowledge from them. Taking that back means you aren't holding up your part of the deal. (By the same token, lurkers fail to provide value to the community as well.)

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Well IceCream can't edit Aijin's avatar, teehee.

Quote:After you post, it doesn't belong to you any more. It belongs to the community. In return, you get to read other people's posts and gain knowledge from them. Taking that back means you aren't holding up your part of the deal. (By the same token, lurkers fail to provide value to the community as well.)

I think it's more that when you create a thread together with other people, then going and breaking it afterwards is taking away some of what they gave, in addition to what you gave yourself. (Clearly so for deleting whole threads as was possible before; but also IMO for deleting your own posts.)

"If she is, but she continues to peruse the forum (same IP) or register with a new name, then she should come clean about it. Nobody's gonna hold it on her if she does so. But to delete hundreds of posts silently like that is not acceptable, even if the option was there."

I didn't know banning could prevent making a new account. I see.

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Nagareboshi Wrote:As you all now, we are on the Internet, and even the fact she edited and deleted most of her posts does not mean they are not there any longer. Do a Google search if you still want to find out more - maybe someone finds a post with Google Cache that sheds some more light on this. Maybe she has explained it somewhere but deleted it also?

Googlecache updates quickly, they'll be gone soon! Big post about her plans for 2011 in here (scroll down a bit):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...ogle.co.uk

Best guess, she ain't going to Japan now and has quit learning...but then we shouldn't speculate..

I agree with you, speculation about another persons reason to do something is leading nowhere in this case. But i guess in that case where one member was an integral part of the community i would wonder when such things don't happen. Oh and by what ファブリス posted, he mentioned her using a Japanese IP, i thought she is there already.

Tanks for posting the link to that thread btw. I was somehow in a motivational low the last two to three days. I have fallen into sort of a trap somehow - i want it and i want it now. Meaning going faster than necessary with my textbook, instead to slow down my own pace. Seeing now what little goals i set for myself this year Japanese wise was an eye opener. I don't have to rush. Sorry if this is offtopic in here, but who can say what it's good for that i posted this here?

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aphasiac Wrote:To be fair, her personal email address is pretty much the same as her username - so a friend/family/work colleague could have made the connection if they searched around a little bit

She could have asked me to change her username. People ask me by email from time to time. Usually they don't have many posts, so I do it without asking questions.

I don't understand the privacy issue in this case. It's not like we are discussing sexual fetishes here, that you don't want your mom to know about.

gyuujuice Wrote:I didn't know banning could prevent making a new account. I see.

Well it doesn't most of the time as the last number of an IP address changes once a day or so with most ISPs. The IP from IceCream edits in Japan appears to be fixed, so at least that'll stop that IP in case it was a misuse of her account.