deleting forum posts/comments

While I appreciate you don't hold those old views, deleting/editing them is just altering past history which I think can be dangerous. You can't/shouldn't deny the views you held in the past, just my take.

#10 Thanks @FC-in-the-UK . Indeed I've provoked your question...

Over the last couple years I adopted a bad habit of copying questions I didn't care much about from here into GitHub, and reporting back here when they were closed; then when the player here presents an outraged response (and is correct and I thought they were correct in the first place or else I wouldn't have bothered filing the issue), sharing that on github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/7353 , etc.

This year I'm trying a responsible approach: if I don't care about an issue, I don't enter it into GitHub.

Alright. Thank you for the explanation.

I won't allow editing the post for longer than it's already possible, because it can and would be abused.

But I agree that you have the right to remove your own posts. I'll work on that.

Actually in other forums this is a no-go. Because whole threads would become distorted. So deleting the content is not possible, you have agreed to publishing.

#15

To be GPDR compliant forums must offer the ability for users to delete all their personal data, which include all their posts (Lichess provide that option on request). Thus allowing to delete only considered problematic posts will avoid users using the nuclear option and globally distort fewer threads.

I don’t care about lichess.

These are the rules in Germany’s biggest forum:

www.schachfeld.de/misc.php?do=showrules

In terms of law it is seemingly simple: On request by the user, delete or anonymize his nickname and other personal data, but keep his post contents, to not destroy the flow of the thread.

In terms of implementation it is not trivial, because user nicks and other personal data identifying him can be mentioned by other users in forum threads. Anonymizing all forum posts of a user would basically mean running a regular expression over all Lichess forum threads ever written since the user account exists, because personal data about users can be mentioned everywhere. This is undoable and even if it was, it is error-prone, because it will sometimes match wrong things, and it will sometimes not match right things.

It is probably the best if users do not use nicks which tells who they are in real life, and to only publish that info on their user page. Should the user then delete his account, people will only see that someone called 'nicknameoftheuser' posted something, but when they click the nick, they will only see "the user has closed his account".

I wonder, what is Lichess' stand on posts revealing identifying personal data? Should we report these, so that the personal data can be replaced with some '[please don't do this]' template?