Leaving anonymous reviews on Google?

Nasqueron

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind. Is it worse with an Android phone?
I'm with Apple for the next 2 years but i'm fairly sure my next one will be Android.

With Android you use a google account to tie it all together so it'll be more prevalent but not to say Apple doesn't do similar things or won't in the future. You can easily turn off the notifications for the reviews.

Nasqueron

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

You shouldn't be.


You said not if google can help it & you're right. If you (or anyone) does enough digging on Google then you should be able to find info.
Earlier this year i deleted a couple comments here after a thread got a bit daft. What did some members do? Jumped on Google and there's a way you can find the old deleted posts. They quoted them back in to the thread.


I saw in the LED lighting thread in the motoring section this week someone posted about their car. A member here who didn't like LED number plates went through the effort of taking the guys reg plate, searching up info on the car such as MOT history and then using this to try and 'get at' the other member. Really going a bit too far.


So i was agreeing with you. If you dig hard enough you should find something.

Sites like the Wayback machine scan sites and do allow you to dig out old comments but in a way you shouldn't be deleting comments anyway, it can confuse replies and frequently they are already quoted in the body of the text anyway

JustAnotherSaver

Nasqueron wrote: »

Sites like the Wayback machine scan sites and do allow you to dig out old comments but in a way you shouldn't be deleting comments anyway, it can confuse replies and frequently they are already quoted in the body of the text anyway

True.


There's some forums on here that i have no issues with really. I find them very helpful. The Techie Stuff forum is one. DIY forum another mostly, same with eBay and also mostly the banking ones too.


Motoring & Employment however, there's some real clowns in there. Employment especially. People who just dramatise absolutely nothing. Just get way way way ahead of themselves, blow everything up all out of proportion. Go digging through some thread you made like 5 years ago, quoting you to use it against yourself & you just wonder what planet they're from. I can't even remember why i deleted the stuff as it was some time ago but there'll have been a reason. Maybe it was too close to what was going on at work and i know work people come here.


* Note - i am aware that there are some helpful members in those forums too. They're not ALL clowns