Deleted members

[Ming the Merciless]

Fortunately everything I post is arrant nonsense, drivel, or complete tosh.

Every forum has a village idiot 😮

 

[Vapin' Joe]

A few years ago a long standing member whose name we are not allowed to mention made a long and hilarious post on why we were no longer worthy of his presence and threatened legal action unless all his posts were deleted, which they were. It was a legendary flounce.

 

[TheDoctor]

Fortunately everything I post is arrant nonsense, drivel, or complete tosh.

Can confirm! *Accepts slap gracefully*

 

[Drago]

Oh. I thought he was just very friendly!

 

[steveindenmark]

I often click on the photo albums and it's sad that often, it's from a "deleted member".

Some nice photos, but is it right to display photos of deleted members? They have decided to ride off, but did they want to leave behind all the memories contained in those photos.

I have never seen one come back to complain.

If I leave, you are quite welcome to use mine.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

<reads thread title and involuntarily crosses his legs>

 

[Dadam]

From the sites terms and rules found at the bottom of this page

You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content.

You accept that any Content you submit will remain on the site, even if you decide to leave or your account is closed (with the exception of specific Content that you identify as containing personally identifiable information).

T&Cs cannot override the principles of GDPR, in this case the "right to be forgotten". Posts made under your forum name would likely not be PII, but a photo of you could be. In the case of personally identifiable photos being posted on the forum software the only valid legal basis for processing is consent of the subject.

 

[Drago]

A few years ago a long standing member whose name we are not allowed to mention made a long and hilarious post on why we were no longer worthy of his presence and threatened legal action unless all his posts were deleted, which they were. It was a legendary flounce.

I'd heard that more redently they'd talked themselves into a spot of legal bother and came off on the losing end in court. Can't vouch for the veracity of that info, but that's the word going round,