How to delete a post from THIS forum
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Hello i have had to sign up with a different username to ask this. Basically I posted a question on this forum and I am wandering if i can delete it?? The thread is closed but i cant find a way of deleting it. The reason i want to know is that in posting a post has meant that my username is on the webpage, which means that it is findable on search engines (google essentially). I do not want this, I want complete anonymity, i dont want my username to show up on search engines. I know that wordpress give you the option of not being searchable in public search engines but this is provided that you dont post in these forums.
So is it possible to delete a post in this forum????
(If not then there should be)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No you cannot. I’ll modlook this thread though and perhaps a moderator, can do something for you.
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One thing I’ll mention is that the search engines pick up threads in these forums virtually at the moment the “submit” button is pressed, so if the search engines have you, it will be anywhere from 3 to 6 months before that would disappear from the search engines, and possibly much longer. Some search engines (yahoo) don’t ever seem to delete anything from their indexes. They still have posts listed from a blog that I set to private and deleted all posts on two years ago.
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There is no way to achieve this:
I want complete anonymity, i dont want my username to show up on search engines.
Even when we choose to use a pseudonym we are traceable, we all leave digital footprints when we go online. The only way to achieve anonymity is to get offline and stay offline.
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What TT says is true. If you comment on a blog or an article on a news service, or anything similar to that – even once, you leave a trail of breadcrumbs that the search engines will find, and since the scour every nook and cranny of the internet, they can put 2 and 2 together.
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You bet we can and some folks are hired to do just that. Even if you do have a “private” blog that blocks search engines all that’s needed is for one of those who comment on your blog to drop a link to your blog, or to use your pseudonym in their blog, in chatroom or in an online group or a forum and there’s a bread crumb trail right back to you. It’s truly naive to believe that one can be anonymous online. It just ain’t so.
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That is why it is vitally important that you NEVER put any information in a chat or forum or online group that you do not want people to be discovered – and even then that is no guarantee someone else who knows you might not innocently put something out there that would create a trail.
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I understand the whole digital footprint thing. But timethief you say that there is a trail of me???
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Yes and I will say no more. I recommend you stop posting here and on all online forums. Posts to foreign language forums are easily translated. Hiding behind masked domains and proxy servers is not always successful. My best advice is post no more!
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Noo please say more. Otherwise I will think you are just trying to scare me. How did you find my trail??? Has it got something Ip address??
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Comments are moderated on the blog dd3dd created to post here, so maybe that would be a safe place to leave them any advice on staying off the grid… or to let them know what’s already out there, and how it was found.
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Please do not use the most powerful communication tool the world has ever seen if you do not wish to be noticed.
Period.
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@Timethief: dd3dd is obviously not as well-versed in using the Internet as you are, it would be nice of you to show some courtesy and explain yourself in a less threatening manner. You’re coming off as a smug asshole on a stupid little power trip.
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I recommend reading the following:
Web Anonymity 101 – Digital Breadcrumbs as an introduction;
Web Anonymity 102 – A Case Study of how easy it is to find information about a person online;
Web Anonymity 103 – Online Privacy on steps to protect your online identity;
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else).
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