posted on here for years and im getting sick of clicking on an old thread and ive said some shit in there years ago that doesnt even sound like something id say. I kind of hate it
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If that paragraph was a machine itād be the Octatrack.
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Without special powers you only can delete ten posts a day. Plus there is time regulation to prevent you from deleting those ten quickly.
No one notices old posts really, well not much anyway.
If you just want to be free, you could just forget your password, and exit. Or a mod can give you a voluntary ban. Your old posts persist that way though.
Perhaps there is a way to delete more than ten posts a day, with mod assistance. Or maybe a nuke option.
I think European internet rules on being forgotten, should mandate a disappearing exit strategy, but i am unsure of that.
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Everyoneās totally going to search all your old posts now to find that thread 
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Deleting old posts isnāt ideal (unless there is bad content deserving moderation) because it might make the discussion flow confusing for readers. In Discourse, moderators can anonymize accounts, which means that the user loses access to the account and the original username, avatar, profile, historyā¦ are removed. But the posts and their content are kept. Then you can create a new account and start fresh.
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they will bore themselves shitless, I have about a billion posts. theres truly nothing significant. im just a pretty different person now to the point I find it a bit irritating when I see a record of me being irritating. or bickering with random nerds on the internet or whatever. its not so much that im concerned about others finding it or giving a shit. I tend to run into the same problems over the years occasionally so I see old posts from myself (usually not useful)
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I see it differently.
As it is you can hardly follow a threadās discussion in this forum anyways. If others have posted well it is entirely clear what they are saying regardless. Plus over a month back or so, old stuff is seldom read anyway.
A poster ( in good standing ) is allowed to delete any post, or at least change it to blank if that post has been flagged. A user decides what thay have posted here, as long as they adhere to the user agreement. That is the ideal.
I post often enough, with the intent for the post to not be permanent. ( snapchat ) I often make note of that in the post. Which reminds me I have two posts, currently in that state, that need attention.
Itās up to the poster.
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I find it really difficult to write lyrics for the same reason although it usually only takes a day or so to realize that I donāt like what I wrote.
I really need to work on this.
Thereās some threads on MPC forums from years back i dare not uncover again.and on old GS of courseā¦ā¦donāt worry about it.
While the point about old chatter and so on is valid, the actually useful part of this forum and others for me is what I will search for (examples include technical fixes for problems, knowledgeable opinions on and examples of how to use FX, modules, etc etc) and will then read, even going back into the last decade.
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Our policy is that wholesale deletion is akin to vandalism (and is not appreciated), it can totally ruin threads - there are no obligations for us to remove any posts. We are only obligated to obfuscate personal identities.
Posts are never deleted in any case, just hidden from public view - we can see, and restore, any deleted post (or any post edits)
So we donāt think itās a good thing to encourage, especially if the replies are genuinely part of the thread, unlike sadly much of the guff we see posted more recently
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A few years ago I just opened a new account.
Similar things, I just felt different enough, and wanted a clean slate.
Basically didnāt want to see myself referring to my ex.
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Perhaps, but nobody is allowed to have multiple accounts - if an account is retired it must be closed
So this is not condoned - anyone known to have two active accounts may have their trust status capped
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Iāve thought about doing that on a few occasions. I have an issue sticking with the same music moniker, tending to want to change it every few weeks. 
I did close my old one.
Now I vaguely remember writing a moderator about it and mentioning it to them.
I donāt think I can log in you use my old JuanSOLO account.
Just this one.
Sorry for binging it up, I donāt fully remember the whole process.
I kind of remember one you moderators, telling me the rules about multiple account and how a lot of people do weird things as a result.
It might have been you that I wrote back and fourth.
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It wasnāt a reply to you, promise - but useful to reiterate we canāt have more than one account here ā¦ and what weād expect if a change was necessary ā¦ iām sure your old account is in order, iām not looking into it - just mentioning the issues that can come from that
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Iām not a fan of legalese over common sense, but when there are different interpretations over what makes common sense it is useful to go back to written agreements. Elektronautsā terms of service say:
User contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Elektron has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Elektronās sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Elektronās reasonable opinion, violates any Elektron policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Elektronās sole discretion.
This is what we agree upon as users when we join this forum. Our posts are contributions to the commons, not solely ours anymore. Deleting or blanking the occasional rant or not very useful comment short after posting it is very good practice. Digging in the past to remove the occasional post that passed as OK then but now feels embarrassing might be reasonable. But mass-deleting your own posts is just disruptive, and this is why only users with special rights have the technical ability to do so.
This is not my experience, neither seems to be the experience of many users reactivating old topics. Especially in the Other Gear category this forum is priceless and quite unique because it contains a knowledge base of firsthand experiences and expertise (sometimes in the middle of aged posts and noise, yes). Losing hundreds of posts of someone knowledgeable about synths, modular setups, effects, etcā¦ because they got mad one day and decided to delete years of contributions would be bad for the community, and the person might also regret it after a while. Been there, seen that.
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Reading this topic gives me serious anxiety, as a reminder that āEverything You on the Internetā is suddenly owned by companies and big corporations for free, and thatās okay.
I wish I could nuke my posts now and change my nickname.
And donāt tell me that you canāt do it because āthink of the quality of the forumā, not with all this (allegedly) humorous shitposting going on.
(Also, in my case you definitely wouldnāt miss anything of importance either)
Well, thanks for the reminder. In the meanwhile, hereās some more data for all the digital profiles of me.
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Thatās the fundamental problem with the ubiquity of digital consentā¦ Better read and think about the conditions before clicking on āI agreeā.