Is there a way to delete my topic?

griftymcgriff · 30th June 2005, 4:55 AM

I wonder, is there a way to delete my topic...

Amanda and my gf one day looked up my email in google. what if they happen to look up griftymcgriff? im usualy the only person to use this name lol!
it'll lead them straight here, and yeah she will try and use what i said against me..or something!

greenhorn · 30th June 2005, 8:09 AM

You should have chosen a name which does not give any sort of clue about who you are ?

If you feel that your identity has been compromised then stop posting with this user name , contact the moderators and get the user name deleted. Next time chose one user name which is not known to anyone.

I feel emails and stuff like that are way too personal to be revealed to your gf, you never know when a 'GF' is going to dump you.

griftymcgriff · 30th June 2005, 9:25 AM

Haha yeah, well i dont think they'll look up my name Griftymcgriff.

I looked up my email ... it came up with nothing so thats alright :P

XNemesisX · 30th June 2005, 9:41 AM

Even if the mods change your username, if someone types in your OLD screenname, the new username will pop up in the results.

It's a b*tch

tiki · 30th June 2005, 10:24 AM

Don't include the @xxx.com when you do a search. Just do one on griftymcgriff. Contact the mods to change your screen name, or just start all over like horn boy suggested.

Pocky · 30th June 2005, 10:27 AM

First you say this:

Quote:

Originally posted by griftymcgriff
I wonder, is there a way to delete my topic...

Amanda and my gf one day looked up my email in google. what if they happen to look up griftymcgriff? im usualy the only person to use this name lol!
it'll lead them straight here, and yeah she will try and use what i said against me..or something!

And then you post your email. Brilliant.

XNemesisX · 30th June 2005, 10:31 AM

I was just thinking the same thing Pocky.

Now, if they DO type in your email it will most certainly show this thread in the results.

greenhorn · 30th June 2005, 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by XNemesisX
I was just thinking the same thing Pocky.

Now, if they DO type in your email it will most certainly show this thread in the results.

He should delete his mail id as quickly as he can, by now Google would not have crawled this page.

Secondly if he gets the old screename deleted then it will not come in google search (might be in cache though!)

tiki · 30th June 2005, 10:42 AM

Oh I'm sure his email address will get deleted by the mods.

That shouldn't be a prob. It might need to be reported, but they'll tear atleast that off.

griftymcgriff · 30th June 2005, 11:10 AM

Yeah but the thing is, this email dress is just one of my many fake ones :P

XNemesisX · 30th June 2005, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by greenhorn
Secondly if he gets the old screename deleted then it will not come in google search (might be in cache though!)

Think again!

I used to have the username "YX32Nemesis" and when I do a search on that sn...it will show XNemesisX in the results.

**this happens when you don't get a new account name, just change your old username into a new one on that old account, you can see how my registered date is still aug 2003 (from YX32Nemesis, when I had my name changed to XNemesisX in april or may 2005).**

tiki · 30th June 2005, 12:15 PM

Mine does the same for t i k i b r a n d y, which is what my sn used to be here. SUCKS!!!

greenhorn · 30th June 2005, 12:57 PM

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Originally posted by XNemesisX
Think again!

I used to have the username "YX32Nemesis" and when I do a search on that sn...it will show XNemesisX in the results.

**this happens when you don't get a new account name, just change your old username into a new one on that old account, you can see how my registered date is still aug 2003 (from YX32Nemesis, when I had my name changed to XNemesisX in april or may 2005).**

I Know you are yx32 cause you were one of the first posters to reply to my thread when I came on LS. For the reason you mentioed I asked the OP to get his user name deleted and then create a new account, that way there will be no link between the old and the new user name.

Do you remember Llama ? Search for her user name and you will not get her screen name ?

BTW I miss Llama

, hope she is doing well.

greenhorn · 30th June 2005, 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by griftymcgriff
Yeah but the thing is, this email dress is just one of my many fake ones :P

But those who know your email id will know your user name on LS as well, and I guess your 'gf' knows your this mail id , so there you go

Jas · 30th June 2005, 2:30 PM

Well....

This happened to me too - and I requested that my screen name be changed. But like you said - I kept checking in google and some threads would still show up. But I just tried again (maybe 2 months after the change) and now they're gone!!

So, to conclude: have the moderator change your screen name, and all evidence of your old one should be gone in a couple months!