https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1855319 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:35:26 +0000 mrbee 1855319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: yah, Google takes some time to reindex pages! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1855307 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:29:05 +0000 LindsayInNY 1855307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I can still see the original post in google so maybe it takes some time for the archive/cache to clear out of their search results? If someone wants to hunt down my old posts on here, that's fine, but I'd rather not have google direct them right to my whole account, LOL! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1855095 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:12:13 +0000 Boogs 1855095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sounds reasonable! Thanks for always being so flexible! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1855051 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:54:12 +0000 mrbee 1855051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: Ok, reviewed that thread you mentioned and manually removed 121 of the references to your old username!</p> <p>I'll check in with our programmer on the feasibility of building a way to automate this... if we can figure that out, we can easily change the rest of the references to your old username. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854847 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:27:54 +0000 LindsayInNY 1854847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: It's just the one post when you google the old user name. It brings up a POAS thread from April of 2013. From there, you can click right into my current user name. That's the only HelloBee post that shows up in the google results (unless you add HelloBee to the search terms). (And holy cow - 960 posts?!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854812 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:17:17 +0000 mrbee 1854812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: We could look into fixing it for you! Just checked and your old username appears in 960 old posts so it's too much to fix manually... so we'd have to look into running a query to fix it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854809 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:15:46 +0000 LindsayInNY 1854809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Yep. I changed my user name and if you google my original name (add a "C" to the end of this one), you can find my current user name. I wish there was a way to fix that in the google search results! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854443 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:20:08 +0000 looch 1854443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think this is almost perfect! The only thing I would want in addition is that in actual threads, if a user has deactivated their account, that it says so, instead of GOLD/ post count. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854420 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:04:29 +0000 mrbee 1854420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: yah. We could look into changing that... would be great if you could leave that as a suggestion! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854417 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:03:23 +0000 .twist. 1854417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I believe so, yea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854365 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:34:04 +0000 Smurfette 1854365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: @mrbee: but if a person changes their name, it still shows the original name when they are replied too, correct? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854301 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:01:24 +0000 blackbird 1854301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Ah that's a good idea (changing username first). I was just throwing something out there that came to mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854298 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:59:25 +0000 Adira 1854298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is great! Thanks for implementing these changes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854260 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 06:54:53 +0000 mrbee 1854260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: When someone shutdowns their account, we now automatically delete their icon/avatar as well.</p> <p>Usernames are a bit trickier, as deleting those entirely would make older threads really hard to follow. But as a compromise, sometimes people will ask for a username change request just before shutting down... which we're always glad to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854239 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 05:48:43 +0000 blackbird 1854239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: well, instead of the user's icon and name, it could just say "deleted user" and be a stock image. So all the info about said user is gone but the threads still exist and could theoretically be re-opened or posted to. Not sure if that's been considered or if it's just a monstrous pain in the ass </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854070 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:34:22 +0000 BSB 1854070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cool! Thanks for putting something in place! I was wondering what was going to happen and how it would work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854064 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:21:46 +0000 loveisstrange 1854064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: I would think that would screw up post counts and such and be a giant mess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854062 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:19:52 +0000 mrsjyw 1854062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: I think that would open the whole effect if what's mentioned above! Old comments and threads etc deleted and I'm sure that creates a whole other job of maintenance etc </p> <p>Thanks for such quick action to suggested changes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854049 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:03:25 +0000 .twist. 1854049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is great! My only question is, why don't you just delete the accounts entirely? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854022 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:42:17 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1854022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D'oh! Got it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854020 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:41:24 +0000 mrbee 1854020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Just to clarify: any old threads or posts made by that account will still remain on the site, unless they were deleted by the user before the account was shut down!</p> <p>I just mean that the list of posts on someone's profile (that shows all the threads they've posted to and created) will no longer show up. The threads and posts will still be there - it's just that the list of posts won't show up.</p> <p>Hope that makes sense! Let me know... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854015 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:37:26 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1854015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This will create fresh content as I'm sure some previous users started helpful threads. Since we can not access every old thread anymore we will have to ask the questions again. </p> <p>Will this include former users replies to posts? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/increased-privacy-for-shutdown-accounts#post-1854001 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:24:47 +0000 mrbee 1854001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We recently got two requests for changes in how we handle shutdown accounts:</p> <p>1) We got a request that shutdown profiles give some indication that they've been shut down, and<br /> 2) We also got a request that shutdown profiles continue to respect the privacy settings of the account. So for example: if someone set their list of posts to be private, then ideally the list of posts would continue to be private after a shutdown.</p> <p>Those requests both sounded reasonable, so we instituted two changes.</p> <p>1) Shutdown accounts now show that they've been shut down. Here's an example profile that's been shut down.</p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1</a></p> <p>2) We're now *increasing* the privacy of accounts after they've been shut down. Your list of posts and walls will both be entirely inaccessible after a shutdown. For example:</p> <p>* <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1/posts" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1/posts</a><br /> * <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1/wall" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/profile/12345678901234567890123456789-1/wall</a></p> <p>To be as fair as possible... this increased privacy for shutdown accounts will be available to all of our users, both gold and classic. </p>