Lemons who suddenly vanish

[BrummieDave]

I once got banned forever for telling a joke.

I thought it would be a new start. Turning the page and all that.

4 months later I came crawling back.

Go on, tell it again, on here, you can't leave us hanging...

[UncleIan]

This has reminded me that I should put together a 'digital will' - asking my executor to log on to various sites and let them know <username> won't be posting anymore.

Oooh, I thought this was going to be something about getting someone to delete your browser history.

[bungeejumper]

I wonder what actually happens to one's 'Digital ID' when one shuffles off this mortal coil if nobody has the logins and passwords. Not a question for this board or thread of course but maybe I'll ask it on 'Does Anyone Know?'

I could tell you. I recently had the unrewarding job of getting a number of somewhat dodgy Flickr accounts deleted, after a friend's husband died. The pictures were not so much obscene as just plain weird (hey, I have a broad mind), but the private in-group email conversations that he'd been holding with his "admirers" were right off the edge.

I had the good luck to stumble across the passwords for some of these accounts, so I was able to delete them by using the departed's logins. But for the others, Flickr refused to let me touch them unless I produced a death certificate. And I wasn't going to put the grieving widow and children through that. The last I heard, the pictures were still up there.

BJ

[Watis]

This has reminded me that I should put together a 'digital will' - asking my executor to log on to various sites and let them know <username> won't be posting anymore.

That's a good idea.

I have a Facebook contact who recently received birthday congratulations from several 'friends' - none of whom could have known that this person died in 2018 . . .

Watis

[swill453]

This has reminded me that I should put together a 'digital will' - asking my executor to log on to various sites and let them know <username> won't be posting anymore.

That's a good idea.

I have a Facebook contact who recently received birthday congratulations from several 'friends' - none of whom could have known that this person died in 2018 . . .

Yes I regularly see contacts on Linkedin who I know have been dead for years get "congrats on the work anniversary" from ex-colleagues.

I guess we'll just have to get used to seeing online "shadows" of the departed, as the chances of there being a common way of notification or deletion across all the platforms is vanishingly slim.

Scott.

[Arborbridge]

I once got banned forever for telling a joke.

I thought it would be a new start. Turning the page and all that.

4 months later I came crawling back.

It must have been quite some joke.... or quite some failure of their sense of humour.

Well, to be fair to the Fool, it was probably the straw that broke the moderator's back. I'd been pushing my luck for some time.

Go on, tell it again, on here, you can't leave us hanging...

Well you know the funny thing is it upset some of the ladies on the Fool, but it also upset a lot more blokes who, at the time, seemed to thrive on being upset. They were outraged at everything....

The even funnier thing was that I'd first heard the joke being told by a female comedian (Joan Rivers FWIW) on a television broadcast, but in the reverse.

No-one seemed to upset by it.

Anyway, it was along the lines of a person of a certain sex only existing for the purpose of being a life support system for their genitals........ But in much cruder terms

That's not a joke but a truism

I used to love Joan Rivers.

[BrummieDave]

Well, to be fair to the Fool, it was probably the straw that broke the moderator's back. I'd been pushing my luck for some time.

Go on, tell it again, on here, you can't leave us hanging...

Well you know the funny thing is it upset some of the ladies on the Fool, but it also upset a lot more blokes who, at the time, seemed to thrive on being upset. They were outraged at everything....

Anyway, it was along the lines of a person of a certain sex only existing for the purpose of being a life support system for their genitals........ But in much cruder terms

I'm OUTRAGED by that and will be reporting you to the Mods; I hope you get banned.

[AJC5001]

One is manzanilla, who posted frequently in the TMF days but last posted here in 2018 - her only post that year.

Watis

Manzanilla still posts regularly on her own website:

https://debtcamel.co.uk/blog/

Gostevie

14:22 30th Jan 2020. Sara Williams is currently on BBC News discussing Wonga compensation.

Adrian

[AleisterCrowley]

She is often (?) quoted on BBC website;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51266079

[cinelli]

I am going to post a hard brainteaser on the puzzles board to see whether this coaxes him back.

Cinelli

[Watis]

Prolific poster Dod101 hasn't posted for two weeks . . .

Hope it's just because he is on holiday, or something like that.

Watis

[Clariman]

Prolific poster Dod101 hasn't posted for two weeks . . .

Hope it's just because he is on holiday, or something like that.

Watis

Last active January 23rd

[AleisterCrowley]

people lose passwords, go on holiday, get abducted by aliens, make New Year's Resolutions re time spent online...

[TUK020]

people lose passwords, go on holiday, get abducted by aliens, make New Year's Resolutions re time spent online...

that's because the aliens' resolutions are subject to a different solar cycle..........

[monabri]

Prolific poster Dod101 hasn't posted for two weeks . . .

Hope it's just because he is on holiday, or something like that.

Watis

Last active January 23rd

I think he's on hols somewhere...

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