Quote from: philipma1957 on April 01, 2020, 01:44:28 PM

In order to disinfect this I will be deleting all threads that I started with the self mod option.

I would think I can delete a few thousand posts of other people this way.

along with a few thousand of mine.

I will be starting here.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5091665.msg48988960#msg48988960

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 01, 2020, 02:45:43 PM

This thread has been deleted to show corona-v is not a joke to me.

April Fools.

not.

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 01, 2020, 02:53:26 PM

Yeah it was old time to get rid of the old and in with the new. It was helpful to do it as I listen to my wife still coughing 90 days after being released from the hospital with double pneumonia which may have or may not have been caused by corona-v.

While I don't like the joke I get it and it will help some. I picked a thread that was locked and a bit out of date. I did not want to punish people if they are earning with their signature's in a current thread. I personally feel better for having done it.

I think I will move on to my 9 alt coin threads. They had over a million views and I truly love them. But I am in lock down here in New Jersey facing 30 more days of Fud. I believe deleting my favorite pride and joy threads may help me cope with what will happen over the next thirty days. These 9 threads date back to 2016 they should be out of date and old so time to clear out the old and make space for the new.

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 01, 2020, 11:24:24 PM

Quote from: theymos on April 01, 2020, 07:05:43 PM

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I felt what you were trying to do.

But With my wife and my wifes 4 cousins already sick And with one of them on a ventilator it felt saddening to me.

I do feel better having deleted the two threads 🧵 with 1000 plus posts on them.

I won’t be doing any others as multiple people have asked me to keep the alt coin mining threads 🧵 and the other difficulty threads.

I also realized that my actions of deleting my self modded threads 🧵 may be like a bunch of morons not cooperating with the lockdowns. so I will leave the other threads up.

wishing all of you luck in your lives with corona-v.

You just destroyed the personal work of many people who contributed to your threads in good faith, and who themselves did nothing whatsoever to cause you to take even unreasonable offence.

Depending on whether you had any real fans who posted frequently in your threads, you may even have knocked some people down a rank.

Furthermore, as you evidently did not pause to consider, if you really just mass-deleted so many posts, there is a statistical likelihood that you just trashed posts by somebody out there who is currently ill with COVID-19—and there is also a not insignificant probability that one or more authors of those posts will die of COVID-19, whereupon their bereaved families may come in search of online relics for their memories. Thus, you are a hypocrite for pretending to even care about such things in any case but your own.

Your legitimate worry about ill family members, to whom I think that anybody here will wish a speedy recovery, does not entitle you to lash out and hit innocent bystanders over your reaction to a joke by the forum’s administrator. You just shredded the collective hours of many people’s lives in a fit of grandstanding and virtue-signalling.

If I had ever contributed to any of your self-mod threads, I would be personally quite angry at you now. As it is, I am relieved that you have no power to delete any of my posts.

And before you fire off some indignant reply at me, I warn you that you should NOT make any assumptions about the effects of COVID-19 on my own life. Neither should you inquire about that: It is none of your business, and will remain so.

I point that out only because I am effectually drawing fire here, whereas you thoughtlessly threw a tantrum without even reflecting on the fact that neither you nor I has, or should have any idea of what the real effect of COVID-19 is on theymos’ private life—let alone the lives of all the authors of those posts you just trashed.

For the record: As one who does not generally contribute content to sites run by others, I myself have carefully considered very unlikely hypothetical scenarios in which I may mass-delete all my own posts here. E.g., if I were to be administratively forbidden from red-tagging fork shills, I may decide to burn my own work and walk away. (I did say, very unlikely hypothetical scenarios.)

Whereas if I were to leave the forum in anger at its administration, withdrawing thereby my own contributions, I would not take it into my own hands to destroy the work of people who had contributed to my self-moderated threads in good faith, in accord with my local rules, and sometimes even from sincere friendship toward me. In this hypothetical, I may post a note encouraging people to follow my example. But to trash others’ work myself in that circumstance would be self-centred, narcissistic, and downright treacherous of me. I would not do that.