| People do come back after years of breaks/not visiting. I don't think it's fair to delete an account, so... This suggestion is a terrible idea. |
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Tyrel said: People do come back after years of breaks/not visiting. I don't think it's fair to delete an account, so... This suggestion is a terrible idea. then people should have the option to delete their own account instead of having to delete everything on their profiles |
marriage said: Great idea. Tyrel said: People do come back after years of breaks/not visiting. I don't think it's fair to delete an account, so... This suggestion is a terrible idea. then people should have the option to delete their own account instead of having to delete everything on their profiles >Get hacked >Hacker deletes your account And even saying the whole 'Send a confirmation email X to confirm deletion' won't always work. |
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Tyrel said: marriage said: Great idea. then people should have the option to delete their own account instead of having to delete everything on their profiles >Get hacked >Hacker deletes your account you can keep an export file thing of your list. and no one would ever care enough to hack into someones MAL just to delete it, this site has nothing important on it |
marriage said: Just like the people who hack accounts and post gore, amiright?Tyrel said: Great idea. >Get hacked >Hacker deletes your account you can keep an export file thing of your list. and no one would ever care enough to hack into someones MAL just to delete it, this site has nothing important on it |
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marriage said: Which doesn't help with posts, friends, your id number, clubs, etc etc etc.Tyrel said: Great idea. >Get hacked >Hacker deletes your account you can keep an export file thing of your list. and no one would ever care enough to hack into someones MAL just to delete it, this site has nothing important on it |
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Tyrel said: marriage said: Just like the people who hack accounts and post gore, amiright?you can keep an export file thing of your list. and no one would ever care enough to hack into someones MAL just to delete it, this site has nothing important on it you say that like people are on here getting hacked every day gaiaonline doesnt allow account deletion and all my embarrassing shit from when I was 12 still exists on those profiles |
IntroverTurtle said: And this sums it up.marriage said: Which doesn't help with posts, friends, your id number, clubs, etc etc etc.you can keep an export file thing of your list. and no one would ever care enough to hack into someones MAL just to delete it, this site has nothing important on it |
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Tyrel said: IntroverTurtle said: And this sums it up.Which doesn't help with posts, friends, your id number, clubs, etc etc etc. - Why would you want to keep your posts? Do you browse your own post history or care about your post count? - You can re-add friends and re-join clubs on a new account - Whats id # for? You are losing nothing actually important through account deletion that you cant get back by making a new account and are just paranoid that someone will care enough to hack into it |
marriage said: Tyrel said: And this sums it up. - Why would you want to keep your posts? Do you browse your own post history or care about your post count? - You can re-add friends and re-join clubs on a new account - Whats id # for? You are losing nothing actually important through account deletion that you cant get back by making a new account and are just paranoid that someone will care enough to hack into it Post numbers and when you joined MAL under your profile picture is important too some people. Having the option to delete your own account is a horrible idea, same is the suggestion to delete all accounts that are X years old. |
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marriage said: You are losing nothing actually important through account deletion that you cant get back by making a new account and are just paranoid that someone will care enough to hack into it You're assuming we can remember every single friend and club. |
mayukachan said: marriage said: You are losing nothing actually important through account deletion that you cant get back by making a new account and are just paranoid that someone will care enough to hack into it You're assuming we can remember every single friend and club. I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count If someone hacked your account the most they would do is join the yaoi club and give naruto a 10/10 rating if they were your true friends you would remember all of their usernames by heart |
marriage said: mayukachan said: You're assuming we can remember every single friend and club. I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count If someone hacked your account the most they would do is join the yaoi club and give naruto a 10/10 rating if they were your true friends you would remember all of their usernames by heart pffft i mean acquaintances. i talk to a lot of people here. we don't have to be friends to talk about stuff. i want my post count to reset because people keep harassing me over it |
marriage said: Someone's already hacked a MAL mod account and deleted accounts so... He also changed people's names and posted stupid stuff... The same guy who causes problems on the site every couple of months to a year so....mayukachan said: You're assuming we can remember every single friend and club. I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count If someone hacked your account the most they would do is join the yaoi club and give naruto a 10/10 rating if they were your true friends you would remember all of their usernames by heart |
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marriage said: That's some mighty fine reassurance you got there. Any chance you could explain that to someone who just recently accused me of hacking their account?mayukachan said: You're assuming we can remember every single friend and club. I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count |
worldeditor11 said: I'm such a bad man. Shame on me.NTAD said: Yeah man, stop hacking other people's accounts and post loli vids.That's some mighty fine reassurance you got there. Any chance you could explain that to someone who just recently accused me of hacking their account? |
marriage said: I dunno, some people are pretty salty.I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count |
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| I agree with this. Like there should be a rule which stipulates that you have to login at least once every 5 years. Logging in takes like 2 seconds, if you can't do that once in 5 years then what in the heck are you doing here? You obviously don't care about any friends or whatever you might have here and can just export yout list to somewhere it will actually be useful (you can even use Excel). This will make usernames reusable and will even make MAL popularity and scores more useful and reliable since troll accounts that were used to boost/drop a series rating and was never found years ago will be deleted if the users never log in (very likely since it's just a troll account anyway) |
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ReaperCreeper said: marriage said: I dunno, some people are pretty salty.I promise no one is plotting to hack worthless MAL accounts and steal your MAL identity and post count Or rather they got Too Much Free Time |
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KitOsborn said: Anyway, if you're so against account deletion, how about a name-change option? That way the account can be, for all intents and purposes, removed from any affiliation to your real life, yet it still exists in case you wish to reclaim it from the hackers who are clearly out to get you. And how are you supposed to log in into your renamed account if you don't know that it was renamed? |
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| Not a good idea. I came back after years and became more active than ever. |
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| how about just deleting the ones that have 0 activity whatsoever? Like 0.0 days watched/read, and 0 posts/comments? |
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KitOsborn said: The only thing account deletion would add to the system is removal of forum posts/post counts. Now, why are you so against that? I am not against logging with email |
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KitOsborn said: The only thing account deletion would add to the system is removal of forum posts/post counts. Now, why are you so against that? I am not against the idea of a button to nuke your account, but I don't support it nuking all traces of you on MAL. So assuming there's a time delay like facebook or whatever to circumvent abuse to it, if you had 10000 posts and the system would have to go delete all of them for you... No, posts should not be removed. If they were, you would end up with empty quotes in other people's posts, discussions that don't follow, etc. As for the old accounts thing, I think their name can be yielded upon some to-be-decided conditions that stipulate inactivity but I admit I'm not sure how to handle the old user logging back in. |
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Tensho said: Agreed. Such an inclusion can and will completely break the forums. This is a tried and tested subject, as old as the concept of online forums itself. Globally deleting posts is a bad idea.KitOsborn said: The only thing account deletion would add to the system is removal of forum posts/post counts. Now, why are you so against that? I am not against the idea of a button to nuke your account, but I don't support it nuking all traces of you on MAL. So assuming there's a time delay like facebook or whatever to circumvent abuse to it, if you had 10000 posts and the system would have to go delete all of them for you... No, posts should not be removed. If they were, you would end up with empty quotes in other people's posts, discussions that don't follow, etc. As for the old accounts thing, I think their name can be yielded upon some to-be-decided conditions that stipulate inactivity but I admit I'm not sure how to handle the old user logging back in. |
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| I agree with this. At least people MUST have the ability to request a deletion of the account. We need to think about the consciousness of the web and the future of the internet itself. The existing of future people is reduced on the one hand of the role of the consumers and on the other hand of the role of the SHOWING people. We don't live our lifes (become too boring), people now document it in all aspects and share and show it! We are a nation of showing people!(EVEN IF NOBODY WATCHES THE SHIT.. never mind just keep posting shit) Even today more pictures are taken and uploaded, than pics are consumed. Not people are relevant any more ... BUT the counters, klicks. This klicks, events, lists intend our lifes... [ Daseinszweck zukünftiger Menschen ausschliesslich auf einerseits die Rolle des Konsumenten (von den wenigen Nutzniessern einmal abgesehen) und andererseits auf die Rolle des Zeigenden. Man führt sein Leben nicht mehr (dazu ist es einfach zu langweilig geworden), man dokumentiert und zeigt es. Wir werden ein Volk von Zeigenden (auch wenn sich niemand den ganzen Kram mehr anschaut). Es werden heute schon mehr Bilder gemacht und hochgeladen, als Bilder angeschaut. Denn nicht die Menschen sind relevant, sondern stattdessen anoname Zähler. Ereignisse und Klicks bestimmen unser Leben und als Dauertipper können wir daran teilhaben. ] |
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Z3noN said: You've always had the ability to request your account to be deleted.I agree with this. At least people MUST have the ability to request a deletion of the account. We need to think about the consciousness of the web and the future of the internet itself. |
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IntroverTurtle said: Z3noN said: You've always had the ability to request your account to be deleted.I agree with this. At least people MUST have the ability to request a deletion of the account. We need to think about the consciousness of the web and the future of the internet itself. He meant your account |
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| Or we could change forums name on the ones whom havent logged in for 5 years so that the old names whom isnt really used or has been for atleast 5 years become availble. |
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Annuvin said: @kiingsiize Psst, this has already been done, sort of. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1430734 oooooh, thats cool o,o Thanks |
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Ayame1 said: I didn't read all the posts here but skimmed over them. I like this idea because it would help prevent fake accounts from persisting, but above people saying they don't want to loose their accounts even after five years. There is one simple solution to that: Accounts won't be deleted. None of your information will, however, your scores won't appear in an anime's score until you relogin to your account if you're gone for 4 years. I think it's better if the time period were a bit shorter. More like 4 years. Because 4 years is still a long time. I don't really grasp what you mean. So, you are against deleting the account option, bit feel our scores will vanish until were relogin? I don't see how that would work and deleting accounts in any shape or form would always be a bad idea due to the hacking possibility. |
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Ayame1 said: Kagami said: I don't really grasp what you mean. So, you are against deleting the account option, bit feel our scores will vanish until were relogin? I don't see how that would work and deleting accounts in any shape or form would always be a bad idea due to the hacking possibility. After 4 years, your personal ratings would not take affect on anime ratings until you logged in again, thus making your account considered active. Only accounts active within 4 years should have their scores take affect on anime pages. It would make it so fake accounts that were created just to raise or lower the rating of certain anime would eventually have their scores hidden. Because these accounts are never going to be logged into again anyway. Does that make sense now? A system like this would start improving anime scores after 4 years (or whatever time period they chose). Wow. I made a few spelling errors in my last post. Anyway, back OT: We already have a job as users to link suspect accounts that do this sort of immature action so they can be deleted. I also disagree with your suggestion because just because a user fails to login again doesn't mean their ratings should eventually be taken away from the database. Also, let's say myanimelist exists in 100 years and even longer - That means members who can't login anymore would have their scores all negated and that'd make the scores in the database take a MASSIVE hit. Our scores should stay intact so future generations could use them as examples. |
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| @Ayame1 - Not important? Let me stop you there and convey why you are not analyzing the entire picture. Ratings (even 100 years old) are VERY important as they show what was popular at the time and guides new users who just begin as anime fans. Saying our ratings hold no importance makes little sense to me and seeing the ratings constantly shift and change due to people not coming on anymore would create havoc. I promise you the benefits of adding this DO NOT outweigh the eventual negatives and your idea actually breaks the very foundation of this site. Its not a bad idea, just wasn't very thought out. |
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