<p>I’m making this thread in the Parents’ forum because it’s where I’ve been posting the most recently. I generally think these sorts of posts are attention-seeking and annoying, but I don’t want anyone to wonder where I’ve gone.</p>
<p>I’ve never been good at maintaining any pretense of anonymity online, and it’s getting to the point where I feel genuinely uncomfortable about things I’ve posted here. I couldn’t care less what you know about me, because in most ways I’m a good kid and fairly uninteresting, but when it involves other people (which it has, lately) then that’s unacceptable. I don’t trust my own judgment here, and I don’t see any other solution than to stop posting entirely.</p>
<p>After making this post, I will change my password to a meaningless string of numbers and letters that I can’t possibly remember. If I could, I’d delete my account – and everything I’ve posted in the past few years – but I don’t think that’s possible; mods, please enlighten me if there is in fact a way to do that.</p>
<p>I appreciate the advice you’ve given over the years – had it not been for this site, I probably would never even have thought to apply to college in the US, let alone the school I now attend – and all the great discussions, serious and lighthearted. This has been a wonderful resource, but it’s time to go.</p>
<p>Thanks again, and all the best,
cameliasinensis</p>
<p>I’m cameliasinensis(at)gmail(dot)com if for whatever reason you’d like to contact me directly.</p>
<p>I’m pretty much a lurker (I’m also a college student who prefers reading the stuff on the Parents’ forums), and I’ve enjoyed reading your posts so it is unfortunate you feel that you no longer wish to go on this site, but I definitely respect your decision and wish you the best in all your future endeavors.</p>
<p>Cami I think I understand. You are being responsible to another person’s privacy and concerns. Good for you. That’s highly respectable. Just like you.</p>
<p>But perhaps you can just ask the mods to delete a few recent posts, to have your entire prior identity in tact.</p>
<p>Otherwise it’s like giving up your maiden name when you marry, and nobody can ever find you again in the telephone directory!! Loss of identity and old friends.</p>
<p>In regards to what paying3tuitions suggested in her post, I’d like to share that a couple of months ago I PMed a mod and asked him to delete a thread for me (and he granted my request), because I had created that thread a few months prior to that seeking advice for a personal issue, and when I found out that my brother has started going on this site, I didn’t want to risk his coming across it. In the future I am not going to post stuff like that under a screen name that I use for most of my other accounts…</p>
<p>Dear Cam,
I hope you’ll consider asking the mods to delete the posts that concern you so you won’t worry about them. You are clearly a wonderful young woman with a very bright future. I’ll be sad to see you go. All the best!</p>
<p>We mods will sometimes honor a request to delete one or two posts that reveal too muxh personal information, but we don’t do mass deletions of many posts or entire IDs for three reasons:</p>
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<li><p>The continuity of the discussion on CC is destroyed by deletion of large blocks of material.</p></li>
<li><p>Any deletions are mostly wasted effort anyway, because thanks to Google’s cache of old web pages, even deleted posts can be easily found and resurrected via Google search. We have no control over that or any way to stop it.</p></li>
<li><p>We expect members to take responsibility for their own posts and think before posting. Otherwise, our limited mod time would be almost completely consumed with regretful members wishing to retract or modify their posts.</p></li>
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<p>Camelia, I hope for your CC “reincarnation” someday! You are a wonderful young lady, and you contributed many valuable things to the discussions! I wish you all the best; you will be missed!..</p>
<p>You have been a wonderful contributor to this community, and it’s no exaggeration to say that reading what you post has enriched my life. You have a wonderful skill – the ability to earn others’ respect purely through your ideas and your expression of them.</p>
<p>If you are half as thoughtful, generous, compassionate, and honest in the flesh as you are on-screen, there are some very lucky people around you in the non-virtual world.</p>
<p>I don’t know which posts you are concerned about, but I know what you mean. We tend to feel so comfortable with the CC community that sometimes we devulge more than we intended.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best in this wonderful course you have set for yourself!</p>