please delete all of my posts

i understand this is a large request. was going to email but it dawned on me that i don't know who mods actually are (which is fairly problematic imo) so no clue where to send messages. am willing to cashapp/venmo/paypal for time spent on deletion. if there was a way to do it myself, i would (please direct me if there is).

please use user contact link to follow up. not angry or setting deadlines and there is no malice whatsoever, but will contact official representation if required/requested.

delete mine too!

please don't delete mine, I would like them to remain so that robot archaeologists may one day reconstruct a simulacrum of my consciousness.

I'm training AI to go back and edit my posts to make me sound smarter.

Why do you two want all your posts deleted?

The robots will so-not-gonna-happen us.

2020s Paranoia Thread (ILX version)

If there are any specific posts that you feel may be identifying/problematic we will be happy to remove those if you point us to them, but there is no way we can delete everything.

The active mod team is me, stet & WmC and we are all volunteers who do this when we have time. The general understanding of editing/deletion here is that you're all grown-ups who choose to post on a public message board and we'll only edit or delete sparingly or in circumstances that warrant it. A general sense of regret doesn't really cut it when there are so few of us.

Is it possible to delete everyone's posts but mine?

not angry or setting deadlines and there is no malice whatsoever, but will contact official representation if required/requested.

i'm not mad that your unpaid staff of two won't spend weeks or however long deleting my posts, but i'll hire a lawyer if i have to.

cool post!

it's ok it'll be deleted soon ...or else!

But seriously where is this sudden need to purge coming from all of a sudden I wonder

Is it possible to delete everyone's posts but mine?

I'm sure many would be in favour of a similar but not identical solution.

delete all posts of specific user e.g.

Hey Austin, just wanted to let you know I’ve enjoyed your posts throughout the years, stay safe

hugs austin, i hope you're doing ok

If there's a real problem, excuse my silly joke--best wishes, Austin.

Austin, I know you've been really going through it lately. You deserve better. I haven't been engaging much with you much lately because, well, it tears me apart to see people suffer unjustly and not be able to help. You're suffering unjustly. I wish I could help.

Yeah Austin I’d be bummed to not see your post anymore. You’ve brought some cool stuff to my attention

Co-sign best wishes Austin

Also Carne Arsada please don't leave me the lone Dodger fan over at ILB (if you can help it)

please delete all posts everywhere

hey austin, sorry i was a jerk above. take care.

It's either 14 Active Users mourning or I Regret Everything with you lot

Hey Austin - the site doesn't support this at all (as bulk-deletion is against long-standing policy), so it'll be a somewhat-risky database thing to achieve, and will involve downtime. Can you drop me a note at stet @ ilxor with a bit more context please?

Just want to chime in and wish you the best Austin. I've always loved your posts and general contributions to this board. Hope things are okay with you

ditto to everyone wishing you well Austin, I always enjoy your contributions to the board and think of you with lots of love and compassion when you have shared from harder places.

Also Carne Arsada please don't leave me the lone Dodger fan over at ILB (if you can help it)

yeah i'm good! i was just messing around because i can't imagine there is any simple way to delete my 7k plus post from here.

please delete all posts everywhere

― lag∞n, Monday, June 2, 2025 2:19 PM (yesterday)

for real though i don't know where else to post my long coffee-fueled adhd rambles

at sandbox dot ilxor dot com obviously

If we do find out how to delete all posts tho, we should instigate a survivor style competition. Vote someone's post off the island every month. Immunity achieved through such competitions as: most successful poll runner of the month, otm give/receive ratio, most cont controp, newest active poster, Best ILM covers participant, etc.

I am 100% against this fwiw

this should only be allowed for users with less than, say, 100 posts. anything else destroys context in multiple threads. it's a violation of the spirit of ILX, you just don't get to do this.

iow emil.y otm

and maybe this is going out on a limb, but imho there is no legitimate reason for a long time poster to ask for total deletion of their entire online history in this forum.

plus I want Austin's excellent posts to remain in my Nonesuch Explorer poll

Austin has a lot of great posts that I would miss.

Does ILX have to abide by any RTBF regulations? Asking for a friend.

austin, just want to say i see you and get your wanting to just delete everything. i think a lot of people feel like that, sometimes, and it’s not a horrible thing to ask. but i don’t think it’s actually easy to do on ilx, technically. :-/

buuuuuut, i also think that most people are forgiving and understanding. the benefit of your posts is so much greater than the negative. no one’s perfect, we’re all working on being better. we apologize for messing up, when we think we could have done better, and then we live on and get into new situations and ARE better, or at least trying to be better. we all do that, and we should all be open to forgiveness and moving on and doing better

hey i sent a bitchy message to stet. totally uncalled for. sorry.

i regret posting on ilx. that's why i don't want my posts here anymore. because of my disability, i often don't understand that you guys aren't also hearing the voices in my head. when you're not privy to the whole conversation, it ends up with conflicts ― just look at how it was presumed i meant hiring a lawyer in here when it was blatantly obvious (to me) that i was trying to be helpful and was referring to hiring a data management company or something similar. i was smiling with a hopeful attitude when i clicked submit. but... sigh, my bad.

apologies again for the dick response, stet. that's kind of another reason i'd like to be memory hole'd: sometimes i escalated situations intentionally and nobody did their best those times, but i wasn't even trying.

i understand and accept that my request isn't practical and the board's opinion is that it is not a good idea to entertain such requests. thank you everyone for reading and for your answers and messages☮︎

Best wishes Austin, you are a valuable person to have here. Hope the multitude messages of good will manage to cut through the few negative posts that might come here and there

apologies again for the dick response, stet. that's kind of another reason i'd like to be memory hole'd: sometimes i escalated situations intentionally and nobody did their best those times, but i wasn't even trying.

I don't want to speak for everyone but I think many of us have been there, austin. I certainly have.

austin, thank you for clarifying where you were coming from. a combination of poor assumptions about people i don't even know and my own mental health issues have lead to a lot of dickishness from me, i hope less than there used to be. but people here have so much good will and patience. i'm sorry for that post and i'll come at ya with a spirit of welcome from here on out. btw your bumps of millenial rnb artists are always refreshing. i hope you stick around.

I appreciate you and your postings, Austin, all the best to you, seriously <3

sending you my best Austin <3

Thanks for the apology Austin - your message actually never arrived tho! Did you use stet at ilxor dot com?

hey i sent a bitchy message to stet. totally uncalled for. sorry.

i regret posting on ilx. that's why i don't want my posts here anymore. because of my disability, i often don't understand that you guys aren't also hearing the voices in my head. when you're not privy to the whole conversation, it ends up with conflicts ― just look at how it was presumed i meant hiring a lawyer in here when it was blatantly obvious (to me) that i was trying to be helpful and was referring to hiring a data management company or something similar. i was smiling with a hopeful attitude when i clicked submit. but... sigh, my bad.

apologies again for the dick response, stet. that's kind of another reason i'd like to be memory hole'd: sometimes i escalated situations intentionally and nobody did their best those times, but i wasn't even trying.

i understand and accept that my request isn't practical and the board's opinion is that it is not a good idea to entertain such requests. thank you everyone for reading and for your answers and messages☮︎

― Austin

heya austin. just wanna say that i do struggle with similar personal issues, and i think one of the things i struggle with a lot is the feeling that people are... hostile towards me when they're not. i worry that people don't like me, particularly people i like and respect. i worry that people hate me and just don't want to tell me. i know it's not true, but i still _feel_ that way a lot.

sometimes i say things that are inappropriate and i get called on them. it's hard, and i totally understand not feeling comfortable engaging in that environment. i do find it valuable myself when other people point out that what i'm saying doesn't, uh, reflect consensus reality.

i know that people can be really judgemental towards people who experience things the way we do, and it's totally understandable if you feel judged by people here. i just want to say that i don't feel that way towards you. i can't always respond to your posts, but i care about you, and i'm glad you're here. i don't think you have anything to be ashamed of about any of your posts here. you do, like me, like all of us, have to bear responsibility for whatever you say and do, no matter whether or not it's something you have control over. so i don't judge you at all if you don't feel comfortable being here right now.

i don't think you're being fair to yourself to say that you "weren't even trying". sometimes i escalate situations without meaning to. when i do, it's not my fault. so i believe that when you escalate situations, it's not your fault either.

people are different. what's easy for some people can be difficult for others. one of the most fundamental assumptions i make about people - all people - is that we're all doing the best we can. you're not an exception to that. you deserve kindness. i know you don't always get it, particularly in the wider world. you deserve it, though.

i experience you as a really wonderful person. kind, caring, knowledgeable. i genuinely feel like i'm a better person for having known you. i hope i can continue to know you for a long time, and at the same time... what's important is that you do what's best for you. i say that because i know that's hard sometimes, particularly when it's hard for us to trust ourselves.

hey kate, thank you. just messaged you a bit ago.

upping this for an intentional thing, but first would like to express my gratitude and trepidation at this kind of becoming my own personal ilx metadiscussion. if it has reached terminal velocity with this post, and we are beyond the scope of this particular board's operations, i understand.

(and please also understand: i'm not only asking for appropriate board etiquette, but kinda sorta life advice in general on this particular topic)

so, i recently became housed again and i live on public assistance. i was able to scrape by while destitute by selling some music gear, but i was taking records to a local consignment shop with the hopes of being able to retrieve anything unsold when i became housed again. i am not a criminal or functioning addict, just a genuinely schizoaffected weirdo who loves music. he ripped me off heavily.

i made a youtube post on my channel about it. i wanted to share among ilxors for some reasons:
-other music heads/shop folks here can spread the word because, if you didn't click through and read my post, he is actively deleting reviews because i'm attaching the email screenshots.
-i don't want to make this weird, but i know some of you personally donated to my gofundme account last year. that's exactly when the guy was telling me he was selling the shop. he's still open for business daily.

i am hesitant because i understand this is my deal, i made the choice to do business, etc. "ilx is not my personal army" as it were. it's just... i've literally taken handout money from some of you, while this guy was flipping my fiona apple and cure records for hundreds of dollars. it's not right.

all that to say:
is this an appropriate beef to involve ilx in? sorry, being flippant. by that, i mean: is it appropriate to share that youtube post link on ilm? kind of in the way of, "hey since he won't let me say it on his google, here's my review."

is any of this normal behavior?.and if so, where does it go?

(feel free to point and laugh at me as well)

hey austin! congrats on the new digs :) i am really glad to hear that you are housed again!!
maybe i can write more later, but you know what i think would be a pretty cool way for ilx to respond to the above?
we could help to repopulate your collection by sending you our own records and such
i’m not big on physical media myself, like, at all. if we narrow down my paltry collection to the stuff that makes me think “Austin!”, well, i uh, there’s this Luiz Bonfa record that i’d love for you to have
https://www.discogs.com/release/5799237-Luiz-Bonfa-La-Guitare-DOr-Du-Br%C3%A9sil

why don’t i mail it to you? and if i find something else in my house that I think you’d want, i’ll include that too.

no no no! (waving hands frantically)

i don't want anything!! i have taken enough from you guys and this place. i just know that there's a lot of record heads here, and i wanted to spread the word. because again: the dude is trying to cover up what he did.

deflator your offer blows my mind. i am respectfully refusing. please pass that energy on to the next person you feel needs it!

and please! share that youtube channel post around. here's the direct imgur gallery with the email screenshots: bill michelle left of the dial records orange california 92867 https://imgur.com/gallery/KDnoWVk

and finally, again: if all of this is inappropriate, i understand please remove.

epilogue: i know i come across semi-coherent in text, but face to face, i am a very typically twitchy schizoid person. it's pretty obvious there's something "off" about me, but i'm not aggressive or threatening (probably the complete opposite tbh). i say that to hopefully help flesh out just how manipulative his emails are.

Bill Michelle can go to hell. Just left him a bad review.

I guess I don’t understand, but I only saw two screenshots I couldn’t tell if there is more—is the issue he won’t give you an accounting of the records sold and what he owes you? He won’t pay you? Do you think he’s sold some of your records and is keeping the money?

yes, all of that.