Awhile back we put in a feature that only rarely gets used and never on JU before. It’s called Destroy Account. What happens is the system goes and wipes out every post, every comment that user has ever made on all our sites.
I got to use it today on LW. I had exiled her for comparing a tax cut to corporate welfare and then as being the same as the welfare that the Octuplet mom receives for her 14 children.
I’ve said this in the past but occasionally needs to be repeated – there is no “free speech” here. I invite others to create blogs and post on whatever they want with only a few exceptions – personally attacking each other and me in particular.
I would like to think we’re a lot more tolerant than say the DailyKos or the Huffington Post who wouldn’t put up for a second having bloggers who attack their benefactor or even having a different ideology than their benefactor.
I don’t really pay that much attention to JU these days. I don’t care if someone is liberal or conservative and I’ll happily engage in a debate. Where I draw the line is when people come after me or my company personally. At that point, I have pretty much no tolerance.
Anyway, I wasn’t planning on destroying LW’s account utterly but she couldn’t restrain herself from making one last goodbye post where she complained that I would keep her posts so that I could make a few cents off her writings. To to oblige her on her fear that her writings wouldn’t profit me, I used the destroy account feature to remove all evidence of her writings and comments from the site.