Can I Request a Permanent Ban to Eliminate Distractions?

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While on topic of banishment, how exactly can I get all of my posts deleted from Physics Forums?
 
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  • #32
A ban wouldn't work for me... (though I am not yet addicted to PF just scienceforums.com) because I would just make a new account!:-p
 
  • #33
Orion1 said:
While on topic of banishment, how exactly can I get all of my posts deleted from Physics Forums?
You would have to convince a Staff member to go through all of your 348 posts and examine how their deletion would interrupt thread continuity, and then delete the ones that don't have any impact. Speaking for myself: I've got better things to do, so you can scratch me off your list.
 
  • #34
Why does this guy get special treatment? I bet if i had asked to be banned no one would oblige. It's always the same thing with the oldbies getting banned whenever they want and the rest of us can't get banned ever, yeah that's real fair.
 
  • #35
You would have to convince a Staff member to go through all of your 348 posts and examine how their deletion would interrupt thread continuity


Is it possible to turn my 'edit' button back on for those posts?

I could then delete my posts myself via my Control Panel, no problem.

You should not worry about my 'thread continuity', nobody pays any attention when I post anyway. And since my posts are not based upon any scientific substantiation, they should be deleted anyway based upon forum rules and clearing web space.

-Job- said:
Why does this guy get special treatment?
Yeah, I have noticed the 'mentors pets' roaming this forum and the special treatment, and completely ingoring many others, including myself. It is a form of non-objective biased behavoir.

I am just attempting to obey forum rules and remove my non-scientific unsubstantiated claims.
Tom Mattson said:
I've got better things to do, so you can scratch me off your list.
 
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  • #36
Orion1 said:
Is it possible to turn my 'edit' button back on for those posts?
I could then delete my posts myself via my Control Panel, no problem.
You should not worry about my 'thread continuity', nobody pays any attention when I post anyway. And since my posts are not based upon any scientific substantiation, they should be deleted anyway based upon forum rules and clearing web space.
The point is we aren't going to just randomly delete content of threads that may or may not have been referred to, or accounted for in later replies. You'll notice that even when we ban members, their posts remain (at least the ones we didn't delete leading up to their ban and sometimes the cause of said ban). It would require going through on a post-by-post basis to make sure the thread continuity isn't disrupted, which means not only reading your posts, but the entire thread your posts are into ensure we are not disrupting the thread. To my knowledge, others have made similar requests in the past, and those requests have been denied as well.

Yeah, I have noticed the 'mentors pets' roaming this forum and the special treatment, and completely ingoring many others, including myself. It is a form of non-objective biased behavoir.
That is not the case. You may have noticed we did not ignore you, we replied to your request and told you it's not feasible. It's quite a different request from being removed from membership here, which is something that forum admins are requested to do from time to time. We would not have agreed to remove someone's membership and delete all their posts; indeed, banning a member so their posts remain visible to others is the way we would handle requests to discontinue membership anyway.

I am just attempting to obey forum rules and remove my non-scientific unsubstantiated claims.
I'd be very surprised if the majority of your posts break forum rules and they've all gone unnoticed and you're still here to post. If you're concerned you've made too much of a habit of not supporting your claims in the past, the best solution is to just remedy that in all future posts. We have plenty of people here who have been around for many years, and their education and sophistication in developing sound arguments progresses over that time. Nobody holds the errors made by someone as a high school student against them when they are a college student or a graduate student or a professional in the field.
 
  • #37
I was joking around, obviously, oldbies getting banned whenever they want and newbies never getting banned?
My humor is too sophisticated.
 

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