Blahah Wrote:Perhaps I gave the false impression that I was defending IceCream's actions - I thought I made it clear that I don't think it's OK to delete all your posts. However, I also don't think we should ban IceCream. I think we should remedy the situation by preventing it happening again, not taking retribution.

Agreed.

On the rules page, guidelines and edit pages maybe it should be made explicitly clear when it's ok to edit your post. If there's an older backup of the forum db it'd be trivial to restore the edited posts, whether it's worth the hassle though.

Who cares? Go read more Japanese.

emreth Wrote:Who cares? Go read more Japanese.

Probably the smartest post yet. Or maybe we should try and have this discussion IN Japanese!

I think we're pretty spoiled with our edit buttons and whatnot

We can change what we say and review everything after it's been posted...

not like in real life! haha

Haven't studied Japanese for more than a year. (well not consciously )

This discussion is going in circles though.

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I'm all for banning. This is quite possibly the largest troll in forum history.

^ said by the king of trolls ^

kazelee Wrote:Haven't studied Japanese for more than a year. (well not consciously )

This discussion is going in circles though.

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I'm all for banning. This is quite possibly the largest troll in forum history.

^ said by the king of trolls ^

Speaking of TURTLES, you can choose 亀　(白い) ● (黒い)　一緒に五目並べで遊びましょう。

And here is the board, we can even turn it around in TURTLES, if you like.

Oh... I'm sorry, were you saying something? It sounded a bit like...



With great power...

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shihoro Wrote:If I felt I could not delete etc I probably would never post again. You see, I regarded forums as a conversation area. We don't have all our conversations recorded for all time. God Forbid! I don't want to be reminded how often I have been a dick. It is a place to seek and help others and maybe have different kinds of conversations, which I learn alot from.

Where you, and IceCream and others are wrong is that you complete miss the bigger picture in this: you are NOT a bunch of pixels (avatar), a nickname or a bunch of words on a screen. Your ego is the thing that identifies with "your" posts and "your" online identity and so on. It's not only childish to go back and delete your previous posts, it also shows that you are completely "taken" into the illusion that whatever you typed on a keyboard that ends up on a forum post, is you.

The online identity, and the things you posted, they may remind you of what you were, or how you thought, but they are not you. You is the live person sitting behind the computer screen (or the iPhone or whatever), who is reading this. No matter how "your" older posts sound like what you think is "you", they are older posts.

Regardless if you understand this or not at this point, if you want to move on, and you don't recognise yourself in your older public conversations on a forum, then create a new account, or move on!

shihoro Wrote:It is one thing to have your posts recorded here under a site that requires a password, it is quite another to have you posts accessed by Google. I was shocked to find that.

Welcome to the internet! Of course the forum is indexed by search engines. That's how people find out about it, who have similar interests.

ADMIN: Topic closed because as kazelee pointed out, it's going in circles. Everything that people wanted to say has been said.

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The "IceCream" account (IP, email and username) is no longer banned.

I have decided not to ban her account after all, but only because I have updated the forum guidelines after the fact.

Please read the updated forum guidelines.