Determining speed relative to surface (ground speed)

[dbeachy1]

I too was wondering if it might have been due to his location, there are many curbs on the Chinese internet, Hong Kong in spite of its relative autonomy is not immune. If it was for his safety it's reasonable, but of course surely that's something admins could have done for him. At least on the forum I administrate there's a way to delete all of a user's posts.

Of course the real lesson (by Google cache) is basically if you don't want it to remain on the WWW don't put it there in the first place.

Yes, an O-F administrator could completely delete all of a users's posts from the database, making it appear that that user made no posts at all -- in fact, we do this all the time with spambot accounts: it's just that regular forum members never see those spam posts because we physically delete the posts + ban any spambot account while it's still under its new-user two-post moderation. We could also physically delete the user account itself, but we rarely do that.