Do you remember how to turn off the computer? What’s the proper method to close it? When talking about electronic devices, especially computers, a large process of verification is made when you turn it on. When the computer shuts down, another whole bunch of verification is made before electricity goes down around the circuits of the device.
If some problem arises and you can’t shut down your computer, you can simply cut of the electricity and it will turn off by itself. But the problem with that is the computer can’t save random data and other features to save before the operative system shutdown. It’s still a possible case, but the computer will ask you to see what happened and if the computer can solve it if really it happened something bad.
Well, putting aside the last thing I said, the process of data gathering and data responsibility is a lot. Most of the people can’t understand their data will be stored there permanently, until proper review is done. Most user deletions on sites sometimes get all its content deleted, but not on everything, the only way to know if user content will be deleted after all user deletion are, well there are two ways. One is by reading the site policy, and second by seeing the behavior of users who have been already deleted their accounts. The second one is more noticeable as you can see if their posts are still there while when he disappears from the user position of the site.
Referring as if we have to make a review of content or not, well, that’s the reason for hard reset or soft reset: if you do it the hard mode, you’ll expect to not having control of what you have posted and it’s up to the site to determine if delete it or not. If you do it soft mode, you’ll have to check if everything is in order, and if there is something to take from before it’s too late. Maybe you want to get proper data because you don’t have it in your computer and you’ll need to go to that page to view it. Hopefully most of the sites a user sites have a nice mode to review all of what you have posted, and lots of methods to manage and delete data. The way they gave a user the property of managing its own data easily is the way they give the power to manage the things he can post and control. It’s giving it control of the data to the user, and the user should be able to control most of it. It’s all of what he’s posting and it’s a great responsibility, even if they don’t see it like it.
Hard mode reset is useful only if you know what you’re doing. Soft mode reset is useful only if you want to get important data, and if you know things are going to be resolved elsewhere, and if they could leave a trace to that and you prefer evade it.
Somehow evolution is still near, I don’t know why I’m delaying it....
