How To: Delete Account
How do I delete my account?
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you can't
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wow
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It's one of the terms you agreed to when you signed up. You can delete your posts or request a ban, but accounts aren't deleted because if someone had a lot of posts, it would mess up the server.
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Yeah, BF is kinda like the Hotel California...
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Why - you don't like us anymore? |
Originally Posted by no1mad
(Post 12310301)
Yeah, BF is kinda like the Hotel California...
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Originally Posted by CbadRider
(Post 12310252)
It's one of the terms you agreed to when you signed up. You can delete your posts or request a ban, but accounts aren't deleted because if someone had a lot of posts, it would mess up the server.
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Originally Posted by TexasGuy
(Post 12310470)
Are you referring to the ability to delete an individual post, or all of your posts? And if the latter, then what's the difference? :p
Big, popular threads have had problems loading when a lot of posts were deleted. The deleted posts cause phantom pages to appear because the server thinks the thread has more posts than it shows. If you ever see a thread that shows it has 300 pages but you can only get 299 of them to load, that's due to deleted posts. |
Ahhh, What about the ones that are off by lots more than 1 page :D
Weird that they don't bother updating the cached statistics over time. |
Originally Posted by Tude
(Post 12310344)
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Why - you don't like us anymore? |
Originally Posted by CbadRider
(Post 12310539)
If you ever see a thread that shows it has 300 pages but you can only get 299 of them to load, that's a bug in the forum software.
Here is an idea: Find this guys ID (it's probably 168313) and update all the posts tables and thread tables so the ID is actually Pcad's. It's probably quicker to do in SQL. The posts don't go away and we'll have lots of fun quoting him! |
Originally Posted by StupidlyBrave
(Post 12310571)
Fixed for accuracy.
Here is an idea: Find this guys ID (it's probably 168313) and update all the posts tables and thread tables so the ID is actually Pcad's. It's probably quicker to do in SQL. The posts don't go away and we'll have lots of fun quoting him! |
Originally Posted by StupidlyBrave
(Post 12310571)
Fixed for accuracy.
Here is an idea: Find this guys ID (it's probably 168313) and update all the posts tables and thread tables so the ID is actually Pcad's. It's probably quicker to do in SQL. The posts don't go away and we'll have lots of fun quoting him! Unfortunately knowing these systems that is NOT easy. These things are always so over complicated, over engineered, over normalized |
I was going to say if you delete all of Pcad's posts, the entire system would cease to exist, imploding in a blaze of glory
But yeah an nice "update posts values userid=<pcad's user number> where userid=168313;" would be fun, too... exact SQL depends on the backend DB, of course. |
Originally Posted by TexasGuy
(Post 12310586)
:over normalized
Couch |
Originally Posted by bigbenaugust
(Post 12310655)
I was going to say if you delete all of Pcad's posts, the entire system would cease to exist, imploding in a blaze of glory
But yeah an nice "update posts values userid=<pcad's user number> where userid=168313;" would be fun, too... exact SQL depends on the backend DB, of course. There's also a random ID that is unrelated to the username or the user id but somehow manages to match up most of the time that is used in .1% of the scenarios. And the user id to post is not a 2 or 3 table relationship. No it is a conglomerate that spans 13 tables or 17 if you signed up after 2007 or 22 if you are a paid member or 33 if you are a mod. :p |
Originally Posted by TexasGuy
(Post 12310676)
And the fact that 2% of the system uses usernames instead of user id.
There's also a random ID that is unrelated to the username or the user id but somehow manages to match up most of the time that is used in .1% of the scenarios. And the user id to post is not a 2 or 3 table relationship. No it is a conglomerate that spans 13 tables or 17 if you signed up after 2007 or 22 if you are a paid member or 33 if you are a mod. :p |
Originally Posted by bigbenaugust
(Post 12310701)
I am digging this data model. Sounds like our student data here.
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Originally Posted by TexasGuy
(Post 12310712)
Yeah, sadly it pretty much describes every large system I've had to come in and clean-up, troubleshoot performance problems or convert.
Couch |
Originally Posted by Couch
(Post 12310719)
Try working with JD Edwards some time. It's a walk in the park.
Couch |
Has anyone suggested killing it with fire yet?
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Originally Posted by Wordbiker
(Post 12310776)
Has anyone suggested killing it with fire yet?
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Nerds.
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Originally Posted by AllenG
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Nerds.
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