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Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 6:26 pm
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The other side of the coin is that they no longer want to see comments that they made years ago visible for all to see. I prefer to see posts to online forums more as conversations, which you might have down the pub or in the chess club, rather than as contributions to literature or publicly accessible research (recognising libel laws), but I guess it depends which subject areas you are most interested in. As you say, there was nothing apparently controversial, but maybe they don’t want their musings to be seen by, for example, a potential employer - finding that a potential recruit frequents a chess forum when they want a dynamic go-getter could cost someone a job. Maybe they want to disassociate themself from the chess world. I agree though, it would mess with the flow of the original conversation.Jon D'Souza-Eva wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 6:26 pmEarlier today I was looking at some old threads on this forum and noticed that one user has recently (within the last month or so) edited the vast majority of his historical posts, removing the content entirely. As far as I can tell (some of the deleted posts had subsequently been quoted by other members) the posts were completely non-controversial and some of them were more than four years old, in threads which have long been dormant. It seemed like a really odd thing to do and I wondered if anyone can offer a possible explanation? I feel like someone has come into my home and torn random pages out of some of my favourite books!
I've never really understood that mentality of being worried employers will spy on your internet posting history - any manager who does that kind of thing will undoubtedly be stupid, a complete control freak and an absolute nightmare to work for so in a way you are doing yourself a favour by weeding yourself out of their selection process because no amount of money will be worth that jobGraham Borrowdale wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 9:41 am
The other side of the coin is that they no longer want to see comments that they made years ago visible for all to see. I prefer to see posts to online forums more as conversations, which you might have down the pub or in the chess club, rather than as contributions to literature or publicly accessible research (recognising libel laws), but I guess it depends which subject areas you are most interested in. As you say, there was nothing apparently controversial, but maybe they don’t want their musings to be seen by, for example, a potential employer - finding that a potential recruit frequents a chess forum when they want a dynamic go-getter could cost someone a job. Maybe they want to disassociate themself from the chess world. I agree though, it would mess with the flow of the original conversation.
It evidently will come as a total surprise to Joey to learn that some employers are interested to unearth any racist, sexist or otherwise objectionable traits in prospective employees before offering them a job.Joey Stewart wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 11:09 amI've never really understood that mentality of being worried employers will spy on your internet posting history - any manager who does that kind of thing will undoubtedly be stupid, a complete control freak and an absolute nightmare to work for so in a way you are doing yourself a favour by weeding yourself out of their selection process because no amount of money will be worth that job
Yes, sorry about that - it was meant as a joke.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Fri May 23, 2025 10:45 amJon has now deleted his own opening post. Is everything OK?
The attitude of someone who is either of independent means or content to live on benefits.
You do occasionally see highly offensive posts from a very small group of "usual suspects" which are likely to be deleted when the culprit thinks better of it, or sobers up, or Carl notices. I keep a selection in a scrapbook.Jon D'Souza-Eva wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 6:26 pmI feel like someone has come into my home and torn random pages out of some of my favourite books!
I thought it was funny.Jon D'Souza-Eva wrote: ↑Fri May 23, 2025 10:46 amYes, sorry about that - it was meant as a joke.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Fri May 23, 2025 10:45 amJon has now deleted his own opening post. Is everything OK?