# Who would I ask about this? \[Deleting posts and threads\] **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 2, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741 "2015-01-02T03:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/21 "2015-01-03T02:38:55Z")
Well, if the OP wants to hide his other stuff from people here, just email [Tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:Tubadiva@aol.com) and ask her to change your name to something else. Of course, the ship’s already sailed for anyone who’s seen the thread, but that’s what you get for asking in public. Still, anyone else will remain in the dark. On other places, contact the administrators there, look for options to close your accounts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/22 "2015-01-03T06:43:08Z")
Note that changing your name does not unlink you from your old posts. Your old posts will show up under your new name (which can get confusing if someone addressed you by name in a particular thread)… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/23 "2015-01-03T08:09:51Z")
If someone has quoted one of your posts before you changed your name, your old username will still show up in those quoted posts, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/24 "2015-01-03T10:21:30Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I don’t want all of mine cleared. Just the ones where I say something stupid. I thought you said you _didn’t_ want them all cleared… ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/25 "2015-01-03T14:03:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I suspect the “fresh start” the AOP is talking about isn’t at the SDMB, but on the internet in general. IOW, he/she has decided to cover his/her tracks & become invisible. > > Not gonna happen, but it’s a nice idea. They can change their username though, then it will be harder to link them to other internet activity. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/26 "2015-01-03T23:19:39Z")
I would like all the posts where I discuss porn or semen eating be deleted. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/27 "2015-01-04T04:04:02Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I would like all the posts where I discuss porn or semen eating be deleted. Leaving behind thousands of indecipherable, moth eaten threads. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/28 "2015-01-04T06:11:20Z")
\*Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax, " said the night man, “We are programmed to receive. \*\*You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! \*\*” \* – Don Henley, Glenn Frey ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/29 "2015-01-04T11:34:44Z")
I’d like TPTB to delete all those posts of mine where I accidentally divulged the secrets of transmuting base metals into gold. That knowledge must return to obscurity. Also, the worst thing I could do would be to draw attention to it, by mentioning it here. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/30 "2015-01-04T14:23:27Z")
Darn that Heisenberg. What a kidder! ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/31 "2015-01-05T19:40:17Z")
I’d like the moderators to delete this post. I’d requested it be done earlier, but I couldn’t find it when I searched for it later. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/32 "2015-01-09T15:28:47Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Curious, what is it about your posts that you don’t like? Seems like pretty standard posting to me. That’s the problem. “Pretty standard” is too low a bar for the OP. Not enough of the awesomeness shines through. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/33 "2015-01-09T15:43:44Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from a pulpish novel: Yes! An H. Beam Piper reference! Monty wins my official gold star for the millenium! Hell, I once had a band I called ‘The Beam Pipers’. No one ever got it. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/34 "2015-01-09T15:58:28Z")
Add me to that growing list… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/35 "2015-01-10T02:50:51Z")
Could the OP have been posting while naked and now feels embarrassed about that? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/36 "2015-01-10T03:22:37Z")
Hmmm. \ Hey! Woohoo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/37 "2015-01-10T03:40:51Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Well, if the OP wants to hide his other stuff from people here, just email [Tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:Tubadiva@aol.com) and ask her to change your name to something else. I endorse the notion that the OP needs a new user name. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/38 "2015-01-10T23:52:08Z")
I’d like to have the vBulletin software generate a new and unique random user name for me for _every single post I make_, including retroactively. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/39 "2015-01-11T03:00:34Z")
A factual answer to the OP’s question of “Who would I ask about this?” would be: Ask any- and everyone including your next-door neighbors and old childhood friends you’ve not heard from for years. Because the result will be the same. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741/40 "2015-01-11T03:08:32Z")
So, has anyone noticed the OP hasn’t made any more posts since he started this thread? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-ask-about-this-deleting-posts-and-threads/708741.md?page=3)