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11 Jun 11 - 04:56 PM (#3169031) Subject: BS: Membership removal From: Megan L If one no longer wishes to be a member of this site is it possible to remove your membership i have looked around and cant find a way. |
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11 Jun 11 - 04:58 PM (#3169035) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: michaelr Nooo... you're stuck here. You can never leave... bwwhahahahaaa!! |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:02 PM (#3169038) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: MartinRyan Just let Joe Offer know - he carries a giant eraser in his hip pocket. (Well.... I think that's what it is...) Regards |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:05 PM (#3169040) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: gnu Or just walk away. No fuss no muss. |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:10 PM (#3169043) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Don Firth One must do what one must do, I guess, Megan, but I'd really hate to see you go. Don Firth |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:19 PM (#3169046) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: John MacKenzie Well Meg is right, I have noticed this before, and I'm not sure if it is legal, not to have a means of cancelling your membership. Along with the inclusive advantages that conveys (sic) |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:34 PM (#3169050) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: McGrath of Harlow "Welcome to the Hotel California... We are programmed to receive, You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave" |
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11 Jun 11 - 05:58 PM (#3169054) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: pdq More like the ROACH MOTEL advertising the slogan "Roaches Check In . . . But They Don't Check Out!" |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:08 PM (#3169057) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: gnu Giok... I'm not sure if it is legal, not to have a means of cancelling your membership." I don't understand why such would be necessary??? |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:13 PM (#3169059) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: John MacKenzie Quite simple g, every contract should have an escape clause. The ties that bind, can also be untied. How would you feel if you were still stuck with your "dope", and couldn't get out from under? |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:16 PM (#3169061) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: gnu But, one can simply walk away from this here Café. No alimony, no muss no fuss. |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:31 PM (#3169065) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: John MacKenzie Not true. You can't take anything you contributed, with you. That's a bum divorce! |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:42 PM (#3169069) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: gnu Well, if you posted it to a public forum it's in the record. You posted it. You can never take back what you said... on an internut forum or in a letter to the editor of a newspaper or in real life. I guess I just don't understand what the problem is. |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:45 PM (#3169072) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Bonnie Shaljean I don't either. The obvious solution is to write to Joe and ask him to delete the membership, unless for some reason one wants to make it a public announcement. |
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11 Jun 11 - 06:46 PM (#3169073) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: bobad I don't think there is a problem, some people just want to make a statement, that's why they go public. |
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11 Jun 11 - 10:47 PM (#3169126) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Little Hawk I've wondered about that too, Megan. |
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12 Jun 11 - 12:28 AM (#3169139) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Janie Easy enough to find out, Megan, if the FAQ thread doesn't say. Ask Joe. Seems to me, and maybe I am mistaken, that instructions for terminating membership have been posted before. |
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12 Jun 11 - 12:57 AM (#3169143) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Joe Offer Yup. That's the answer. Ask Joe. I'm glad to cancel memberships if that's what people want to do. And no, cancellation of your membership does not remove all of your posts. It just closes off your membership so people can't send you personal messages. If you decide to come back, contact me so I can reopen your old membership. "Membership" is probably a misnomer, because you don't really "join" anything. You register and tell us who you are, and we give you a cookie that verifies your identity and allows you access to certain features, particularly personal messages and verified identity for posting. Deleting your membership means that you no longer have access to those features. You can post as a Guest, but we require that you continue to post under the same name you used when registered. So, about all that deleting your membership does, is close off your personal messages box. Deleting your posts would be problematic, because it would tend to make nonsense out of the posts that responded to yours. Of course, if specific posts or a user name contain personal information or might otherwise be harmful to you, we can make arrangements to deal with that. -Joe Offer- joe@mudcat.org |
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12 Jun 11 - 02:13 AM (#3169159) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Bonnie Shaljean If anyone is worried about "owning" their content, don't post it on an open internet forum in the first place. Duh. Everyone knows from the get-go that it's like putting something on a high street notice-board. |
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12 Jun 11 - 03:09 AM (#3169169) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Little Hawk Does that include the expression "Duh"? I'd be embarrassed if I'd posted something like that, and I'd want it removed at all costs, so that no one ever knew it came from me. ;-) I might even consider hiring some professional rubber-outers to take care of it. Chongo could probably provide contacts. |
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12 Jun 11 - 04:29 AM (#3169192) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: McGrath of Harlow "Till death do us part" seems a quite reasonable contract to me. |
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12 Jun 11 - 06:20 AM (#3169228) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: GUEST,livey Owning Content - it's a group discussion board not a networking site. On a networking site you remove your page and your content goes with it, but if you remove yourself from a group discussion board your discussions remain. |
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12 Jun 11 - 08:17 AM (#3169269) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: kendall I'm sorry to see you leave. Is there anything we can do to keep you? |
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12 Jun 11 - 08:34 AM (#3169277) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: John MacKenzie Perhaps treating everybody the same, might help? |
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12 Jun 11 - 11:21 AM (#3169330) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Bill D 'Everyone' is not the same, and not everyone follows the same rules and understands the rules in the same way. It has always been the basic policy, as I understood it, to try to apply the rules equitably and fairly.....which obviously involves some judgment calls and 'interpretation'. One person's notion of an 'insult' 'favoritism' or 'over the line remark' is another's idea of a joke. Joe has always said the he and other mods try to edit as little as possible....and Max has always said that he favors 'almost' no censorship. It ain't easy sometimes. Like "herding 'cats" comes to mind. |
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12 Jun 11 - 12:08 PM (#3169343) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: wysiwyg (((Megan))), I've been thru the membership blues. (Several rounds!) Best approach is just take a break from the Cat-- maybe even a long one-- and consider renaming your membership at some point. And while on break, reflect from your own viewpoint about how to manage your new posts to aim for the results you'd prefer to get from them. In light of your values and what you expect from yourself accordingly. And let the rest go. All the above is much harder than it sounds, and if you want to correspond my PM box is open. (It can be in email if you don't even want to see Cat-stuff for a bit.) (I say this in deliberately generic terms, with absolutely no idea what has happened-- I have no dog in the fight.) Peace, ~Susan |
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12 Jun 11 - 01:51 PM (#3169384) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: gnu M did take quite a long "break", only posting occasionally foe some months now. I'd hate to see her leave altogether but it's her choice. |
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12 Jun 11 - 01:52 PM (#3169385) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: McGrath of Harlow I just thought this was just a curious inquiry about the Mudcat on the part of Megan. I'm a bit literal-minded at times. |
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12 Jun 11 - 02:18 PM (#3169398) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Megan L thank goodness McGrath I have been away for a while and wondered how things could be done if needed |
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12 Jun 11 - 02:23 PM (#3169400) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Donuel Social Darwinism comes in many forms, all of them wrong. |
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12 Jun 11 - 11:15 PM (#3169656) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Beer Stay close Meg. You can just log out and come back and visit as a guest. By visit I mean read the threads. Beer |
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13 Jun 11 - 12:24 AM (#3169670) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Joe Offer Well, if you mean to come back, better to do it as a member - I reinstate memberships very quickly if people ask, and I have an easy-to-remember e-mail address. That way, people can be more assured that you are who you say you are. We've had a lot of impersonation lately, and it's come to the point where all Guest posts are suspect. -Joe- joe@mudcat.org |
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13 Jun 11 - 03:11 PM (#3170039) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Big Mick The idea that there is some contract here is ridiculous on its face. This place, indeed most of the internet is the 21st century version of the commons, when it comes to the discussion board aspect. The pre-internet analogy would be the demanding of the removal of all the things you said in the town square from everyone's memory. Bonnie Shaljean said it well. You don't own what you say here (excepting copyrighted material, properly notated) once you post it. It is "in the air". As to Megan considering leaving, I am not sure what her motivation is but it is hers. The place would be lessened by her leaving though. I wish her well, and further wish she would stay. All the best, Mick |
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19 Jun 11 - 05:50 AM (#3172764) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: maeve Meg asked a simple question, and she eventually got a simple answer...along with a lot of palaver regarding wild guesses supported by unrelated and extrapolated commentary. This must be Mudcat. ;) Meg, I've missed you and am always happy to read your posts. Maeve |
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19 Jun 11 - 06:21 AM (#3172773) Subject: RE: BS: Membership removal From: Bonnie Shaljean Me too. Hope Megan won't stay away permanently. |