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Should a member be allowed to delete her/his own account?
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on September 10, 2007, 12:35:53 pm ---Oops! I realized later I did once. More than a year ago, I got a PM from somebody containing some very harsh criticism -- about a particular post I'd written as well as all of my posts in general. The PM called me "arrogant," and what made it particularly hurtful was that this person said that "others" also felt the same way about me. Who were these "others"?? I got this sense of a bunch of people talking behind my back about what a jerk I am. Maybe everybody secretly thought so! It was a terrible feeling.
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I have learned that the overwhelming majority of times you hear someone say that "others" felt the same way, that's turned out to be nonsense. People do this to try and bolster their argument. If they have a valid argument to begin with, there is no reason to suggest that others felt the same way.
--- Quote ---The moral, I guess, is that if one person or a few people don't like you, a lot of other people probably do. And even that one person may have lashed out impulsively and will eventually think otherwise.
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As I said before, it's very easy to write negative messages to people, which is why I don't allow them to get to me. And, as you discovered, once there was a cooling off and some discussion, things worked out.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: dot-matrix on September 10, 2007, 11:51:17 am ---And yet when some drama queen wants to play the games you described of making long winded farewell speeches...
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Did I hear someone calling my name? ::) ;D
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: moremojo on September 10, 2007, 05:16:20 pm ---Did I hear someone calling my name? ::) ;D
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I think we're all referring to the trio of trauma we had last year, not you.
injest:
well I came on to delete my post. I was WAY rash to post it and have regreted it all day. Couldn't get back to the computer though.
Scott, no...no one is talking about you in these last few pages...and I am sorry if you feel I was. I love to see you online and enjoy talking to you. I was responding to Susiebell's post where she said someone pmed her to say they found her irritating and it made her want to leave. I think that is kinda pertinent to the discussion of having a cooling off period for deletion.
but
I was wrong to post it...please forgive me.
moremojo:
Hi friends, I know no one was referring to me, but I was getting a little laugh at MYSELF, thinking of myself as a drama queen (yes, I can be that sometimes) who was bound and determined to make a grand exit with an eloquent, poetic speech of farewell...well, I suppose I made the speech all right, but I still (gladly) find myself here!
And that thought just makes me giggle...
:)
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