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Re: [Gmburns2000] Wholesale deletion of content should never be allowed:
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jt512
Aug 15, 2010, 9:02 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: curt wrote: jakedatc wrote: curt wrote: jakedatc wrote: In reply to: you give permission that such content may be used at the sole discretion of Rockclimbing.com anywhere else on the site It reads to me that they can put it up on the front page or whatever. And they can delete it as they see fit.. not that you can't change it. Maybe you were still a mod then but isn't the only reason PTPP's stuff is still intact is that he was banned before he could edit it My point was primarily related to the part I bolded. That part seems to say that once you post something here, RC.com has a future right to use it any way they like--except for commercial gain, which is specifically not allowed without the user's permission. As far as PTPP goes, I have no idea if he had any desire to delete any of his content when he left. Curt See the next part that i posted.. another section allows you to delete as much as you want. they just won't do it for you.. much to Dingus's dismay I never said they won't allow you to delete your posts. My point is that the content on servers is archived all the time and even after you delete a post, there is a reasonably good chance they still have it somewhere--particularly if the post existed for a while. And, they reserve the right to use anything you have previously posted in the future. I have never seen them do this, only that the T.O.S. apparently allows for it. Curt This is the impression I have, too, that the content is still there even though Aric "deleted" it.
There may be a difference between deleting a post, and deleting just the content of the post. If (a mod, at least) deletes a user's post, the post remains in the database; it just isn't displayed. However, if a user deletes the content of his post, he may be just doing an edit, and it may well be that when he submits the edited post, it overwrites the original content in the database. In that case, the original content would be gone, unless it had been saved during a database backup, and not overwritten by a subsequent backup. Of course it could be the case that the DB actually saves each version of an edited post separately, so that older versions could be restored by the DB administrator. I don't know, but I don't think it's safe to assume that the original version exists.
Jay
(This post was edited by jt512 on Aug 15, 2010, 9:17 PM)
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