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[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by hhh

The second point is, EVEN if I stay logged by cookies in and EVEN if someone finds out about it, what is the probability that this guy has any interest in deleting posts in mersenneforum? All people I know don't even know who Mersenne was.

Even if I keep logged in at an Internet Cafe in downtown anywhere for one year, I doubt anybody will go: "Ah, mersenneforum, cool, no but what is that? hhh still logged in? That's the mighty sub-moderator in the PSP-section, isn't he? Let's delete some post, man!" I doubt it. H.

Yes, but that's "security through obscurity", and your probability estimates may be wrong.

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by hhh

The second point is, EVEN if I stay logged by cookies in and EVEN if someone finds out about it, what is the probability that this guy has any interest in deleting posts in mersenneforum? All people I know don't even know who Mersenne was.

Even if I keep logged in at an Internet Cafe in downtown anywhere for one year, I doubt anybody will go: "Ah, mersenneforum, cool, no but what is that? hhh still logged in? That's the mighty sub-moderator in the PSP-section, isn't he? Let's delete some post, man!" I doubt it. H.

Some people's actions can be described as mindless vandalism. It makes no sense to ask yourself what they have to gain when you are judging whether you need protection. Generally speaking most systems are inadequately protected by default anyway and removing parts of the protection which is there is really asking for trouble. Let's not invite a disaster. Certainly it is possible to make systems overly awkward to use by imposing unnecessary security controls, but asking a moderator for a password before deleting data does not seem over the top to me.

[hhh]

Well, in order to avoid any
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I will not insist any more. I will neither go on a post deleting strike, which I intended to do when I saw the so called feature the first time. I will, though, probably do the cleanup less often. I continue to think the asking is silly, just as screensavers don't save my screen, but drive me mad, and will still be very glad if it be removed.
H.