Goodbye, WinCustomize!

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Hey Stardock.  I'm sorry to say this, but I want to cancel my Account with WinCustomize.  There are a few reasons for this:

    A:  I was unaware of how many results would pop-up in search engines and it makes me feel uncomfortable.
    B:  Although it was cool at first, It just feels like there is too much work involved in pleasing other users with my content.
    C:  Because I haven't been actively involved with the site for a while, I feel left out of everything.

Is there any way that you can remove all of the entries i've uploaded and to remove all results in search engines?  I just want to customize my PC at the personal level now.  

I will still continue to regularly visit as an anonymous user at WinCustomize.com and download the cool stuff your members offer.  I just don't want to go public anymore.  I hope you understand. :)

Any last comments would be appreciated.

        Goodbye, VistArtXPosed.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A. If you're not ashamed of your work or comments/Posts...why would you feel uncomfortable?

B. You're supposed to be doing it for yourself, not others. Examine why you feel the need/pressure (and where that comes from).

C. I guess we all should have rented a bus and searched you out?

 

Anyway...stay or go...it's up to you.

I will still continue to regularly visit as an anonymous user at WinCustomize.com and download the cool stuff your members offer. I just don't want to go public anymore. I hope you understand.
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Yup.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

a- too late. You have exposed yourself on the web.

b- If your goal is to please others instead of yourself, you fail.

c- well, that's how it works.

 

 

 

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

a pity...seemed like you were enjoying yourself by the look of your gallery....

 

It just feels like there is too much work involved in pleasing other users with my content.
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I'd like a dollar for everytime the advice  'skin for yourself' has been handed out in the forums.....

 

Because I haven't been actively involved with the site for a while, I feel left out of everything.
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a good way to remedy that...is hang around more and catch up....  the site is like a merry-go-round...people getting off for a break...coming back...catching up..all the time...

 

I just don't want to go public anymore. I hope you understand.
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Well....no actually... :-|   It's a very 'public' way to say goodbye....for someone who doesn't want to be public.....there is a delete button under your work....and an email address to support... 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So sorry to hear that guy. hope things work out for you. Peace.

But then again...Hang out for a bit. Sydney's right...take some time and look around, talk to us in the forums. You'd be surprised what a little bit can do. I know...they did it for me.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I dont get it. o_O

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A: I was unaware of how many results would pop-up in search engines and it makes me feel uncomfortable.
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Any time you post, coment or reply to a thread on anywhere on the web, which most would need you to be registered and have a user name, it will be of public record and come up on a search,

 

B: Although it was cool at first, It just feels like there is too much work involved in pleasing other users with my content.
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You have this wrong, create/skin for yourself first, if others like it that is a bonus.

 

C: Because I haven't been actively involved with the site for a while, I feel left out of everything.
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WC is what you make it to be, IMO it sounds like you are trying to make more out of it than you need to.

I am here every day so I have a good feel for what goes on here, not sure what you feel left out of. Not being here for a period of time, you would be behind on WC news and maybe some of the more fun type forum threads, but it would not take very long to read them, reply if you feel like and be caught back up.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A:  Wincustomize.com is a big site [as in significant] so its members/works/content are prominent on the web [via searches].

B:  No-one needs to skin to please anyone else... unless they WANT to...in which case 'how much effort' is their own decision.

C:  Life is like that.  What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Other than that, your uploaded content is accessible to you for its removal or retention as you feel is warranted, and in time fame/infamy on the net via search hits will fade/diminish....that's the way they work, really...;)

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A: I was unaware of how many results would pop-up in search engines and it makes me feel uncomfortable.

B: Although it was cool at first, It just feels like there is too much work involved in pleasing other users with my content.

C: Because I haven't been actively involved with the site for a while, I feel left out of everything.
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A: You should have signed up for the WinCustomize Witness Protection Plan.Everyone gets their own rock to hide under.;)

B: If something you do for fun feels like too much work....you're doing it wrong. ;P

C: Define "actively" :time:  Do what you can,when you can and in your own time.

 (besides,some things are best left out of anyway):-"

If you do decide to leave and go the way of the :ninja: I wish you well and thanks for all you've added to the site.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You unzipped your fly in public - happens sometimes... ;p

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A: You should have signed up for the WinCustomize Witness Protection Plan.Everyone gets their own rock to hide under.
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Sorry, Wiz: Stealth Rocks are available only to certain Mods: HG_E, ERK and WOM (although he denies it).

The WC WPP works differently:

1. You start out with, say, a nick like PDJ (a random choice of letters, I assure you).

2. You pretend like you have two accounts/subscriptions. You change your nick making it three. The resultant confusion masks the seizure and assuming of the original (PDJ) identity even easier by distraction and slight of hand.

3. Then you get to pretend you're someone else, with a new avatar and everything. You take on lots of local color. Take pics of houses you don't live in just to put people off your scent.

4. You confuse everyone by claiming to be the guy who was disappeared. You grab all his skins and everything (wife and kids included) and SD moves you to Detroit. In a week even his wife and kids couldn't recognize the original.

5. The original guy is left broke, homeless and muttering empty, indistinct paranoid threats at nebulous Internet and Gov't. bodies...a vitual, empty husk which disappears (just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers).

See?

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I can understand you but you've got to understand creators and moderators of wincustomize too, its not too easy create and promote site like this.

and  don't forget about global crizes... now you may see silence on other sites too...

and if we're all in this hard times will run away from communities, internet will die.

now only optimizm can save us!

i have several issues to wincustomize too, but try be objective in my position as it possible

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's just plain silliness;P

I'd keep the Wincusomize sub so you can download content.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A) You can find stuff about me from years ago. Some stuff on internet posted by you will live on forever.

B) I don't do skin for others, I do skin for myself and share em with others. If they don't like it they don't download it. Easy.

C) I stopped following events very closely a while ago but I'm still here. :)

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry, Wiz: Stealth Rocks are available only to certain Mods: HG_E, ERK and WOM (although he denies it).
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Hankers does have 'a piece of the rock'   ;)

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A: You should have signed up for the WinCustomize Witness Protection Plan.Everyone gets their own rock to hide under.

Sorry, Wiz: Stealth Rocks are available only to certain Mods: HG_E, ERK and WOM (although he denies it).

The WC WPP works differently:

1. You start out with, say, a nick like PDJ (a random choice of letters, I assure you).

2. You pretend like you have two accounts/subscriptions. You change your nick making it three. The resultant confusion masks the seizure and assuming of the original (PDJ) identity even easier by distraction and slight of hand.

3. Then you get to pretend you're someone else, with a new avatar and everything. You take on lots of local color. Take pics of houses you don't live in just to put people off your scent.

4. You confuse everyone by claiming to be the guy who was disappeared. You grab all his skins and everything (wife and kids included) and SD moves you to Detroit. In a week even his wife and kids couldn't recognize the original.

5. The original guy is left broke, homeless and muttering empty, indistinct paranoid threats at nebulous Internet and Gov't. bodies...a vitual, empty husk which disappears (just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers).

See?
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Doc, You are certifiable!!!  ROFLMFAO!!!!      

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

CANNOT BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO LEEVE A PLACE LIKE WINCUSTOMIZE, I MEAN ITS A SITE WHICH IS SO LIVELY N THAT IS WHY THERE ARE SO MANY NEW USERS EVERYDAY.

"I FEEL MY EVERDAY INTERNET SATISFACTION WOULD GET 50% OF THE CURRENT 100% WITHOUT WINCUSTOMIZE"

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

wasn't there a policy in place where people that publicly took their toys and went away were then banned? Yes, there indeed was as I know some that were. The situations were a bit more stressed but Brad DID state that this would be the policy from then on....

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is so funny.XD

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

:waaaa:

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Hankers, reply 14
Sorry, Wiz: Stealth Rocks are available only to certain Mods: HG_E, ERK and WOM (although he denies it).

 

Hankers does have 'a piece of the rock'  
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Not what they told me. Ducks don't need 'stealth rocks'. They go to Disneyland. ;)

And, WOM ain't denying it.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just spotted the "Goodbye Wincustomize!" entry under Recent Forum Activity and thought that WC was being closed down - holy shit!. Then read on only to learn it was somebody terminating his subscription and requesting his uploads be removed (they're gone). Thank **** for that!

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A:  I was unaware of how many results would pop-up in search engines and it makes me feel uncomfortable.
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It's an issue with anything really. Do public work and you'll attract attention, specially if you're doing it right. The more people around you, the more attention you get. Why did you assume that the internet be any different?


B:  Although it was cool at first, It just feels like there is too much work involved in pleasing other users with my content.
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - William Henry Cosby Jr.


C:  Because I haven't been actively involved with the site for a while, I feel left out of everything.
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I don't think you're actually surprised by that, so I won't comment any further on it.

 

Not what they told me. Ducks don't need 'stealth rocks'.
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Guess who only use stealth stripes?

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To me, looks more like a cry for attention more than any worry over getting it.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not only that but you'll be missin' out on what could be the...um...most oderiferous WB in history. Don't you want to be a part of thato_O :(O :omg: 8(| 8C :w00t: :rofl:

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Doc, You are certifiable!!!
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I'm certifiable. Uh-huh. :rolleyes:

Recognize this guy?