When someone makes a mistake or breaks a forum rule as a new user, does that result to deleting the person’s account without any effort to correct the person or point out how he has erred? I was surprised to discover today that my previous account was deleted by Radar admin @lordbanks without any explanation or reply to my messages concerning a thread I posted titled “Try out JavatechCloud website hosting platform” that was flagged. For a growing community like Radar how you treat your members matter and if deleting user accounts without any explanation or effort to guide users is what’s obtainable here then its really unfortunate. I may not participate in this forum again but before I take my leave I felt I should try one last time to reach out to @lordbanks. Why did you delete my account?
Radar automatically flags users who attempt to create multiple accounts to simulate a conversation, which is what you appeared to be doing. What we typically do is delete the new user, but it seems your original one got deleted as well, which is a shame. Welcome back, and I suggest you actually try to use Radar for what it was originally intended, which is a constructive conversation between humans in the ecosystem, not merely for shilling stuff.
I had only one account and one topic, you said I simulated a conversation how is that possible with a single account and a single topic. The replies I got on my thread was from @Oluwasnipes and @O_niran I dont own those accounts and I believe they are old members here, you can check. How did I simulate a conversation?
I just looked at the logs, and it does seem that I was mistaken. You got flagged by posting the same link to your domain in multiple posts. I don’t quite know why I thought that it was a duplicate user infraction, but I agree that link spamming doesn’t deserve deletion. My sincere apologies. I would still suggest that you read the community guidelines, and try engaging beyond self-promotion. Members with history of engagement often get private messages from mods when we feel that they could do better. We don’t delete anyone we consider to be a user, regardless of when they joined.
Okay apology accepted I will read the community guidelines in detail going forward but just to clarify I was not link spamming my post, the multiple links were as a result of my reaction to questions asked on the thread. @lordbanks in as much as you sometimes may need to rely on your moderation bots to do a decent job punishing mischevious members, dont forget its just a software (zeroes and ones). It’s prone to punish the wrong person if left unchecked.
Uhm. These logs, may I ask what other information is contained in it as regards to privacy? Does it contain the email address associated with a user? Does the log contain info on deleted accounts and such? If a user deletes an account, does that show up in the log alongside the user’s email address? Because this log makes it look like once we register once, all our info is available to you.
I hope this helps: https://radar.techcabal.com/privacy
Not completely.
Does it contain the email address associated with a user?
Can you confirm that the only info you record is the ip address and you don’t have access to the email addresses associated with an account?
Does the log contain info on deleted accounts and such? If a user deletes an account, does that show up in the log alongside the user’s email address?
And also this?
Every user has an email associated to them, and yes we can see it. Deleting a user scrubs all their info. But the only way to delete a user is to delete all their posts, so that rarely happens, save for the spammers who have posted only once and are easy to get rid of.