[wp-forums] Deleting accounts

[Andrea Rennick]

I only see The Streisand effect happening here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

A.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> Yeah, between that, AND her inability to read, AND her emailing multiple
> moderators, AND that she already renamed her visible name, so google's
> cache will update and use that ... Eventually.  I said no, and tossed her
> email into my ignore bin.
>
> I won't stop anyone else from nuking the post, but I don't see a
> compelling reason.
>
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the chance that someone (other than her) is actually going to
> > Google her name as one word - i.e. nataliemckeating?
> >
> > Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, I think she might be worrying
> > for nothing, really. When you search for her actual name spelled as
> > two words - Natalie Mckeating - the WordPress posting is nowhere to be
> > found on the first few results pages.
> >
> > kp
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Kevin Gagel <gagel at cnc.bc.ca> wrote:
> >> I hadn't considered that. Too bad for her that Google keeps a cached
> copy...
> >>
> >> Kevin W. Gagel
> >> Network Administrator
> >> College of New Caledonia
> >> (250)562-2131 x5448
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> No.  Probably for the same reason most of us don't wanna do it. People
> would troll, making posts, deleting, coming back, and be dinks.
> >>
> >> She doesn't want her ID deleted, she just wants the post deleted, so
> Google stops linking to it... Ugh.
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