Thoughts on deleting member accounts

[Talisman]

Oh sure, Jethro. I can usually come up with something..... haha.

Martin is right about copyright issues. All content posted in our forums remains the property of the author. And if they ask us to remove all their messages, we have no choice. We must delete them all. And pretty darn fast, too.

Same thing goes for any photos they've uploaded in our galleries. As long as they actually own those to begin with.

Even so.... that's not the issue at question. Someone who posts a message is publishing a creative piece..... it's their own ideas, feelings, intellectual property.... etc. etc. But that's not the case when they provide (very non-creative) data as they fill out a registration form to join our forums. There's no pride of authorship in effect when they're hammering out a username, email address, birthday, and location.

What do you think? The member profiles are given voluntarily as a matter of public record. And I would think that data would be the property of the site administrator. That's who those files belong to.