Edit your title to add Ask PG . Hopefully PG will read those. If you don't mind me asking, can we know why anyone would want to delete their account?
Or just send him an email.
Ask PG: I'd like to delete my account.
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#12In a similar vein, I'd like to rename my account. Though, I doubt this is easy, so I'll just grin and bear it.
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#13PG is the site admin, his mailbox is the appropriate place for site admin questions, surely?
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#15PG is the site admin, his mailbox is the appropriate place for site admin questions, surely?
The poster has said:
"if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox"
Since this is standard netiquette, actually his mailbox would be an extremely unusual place for questions like this.
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#16What do you want to delete?
Your comments?
Your name from the comments?
Remove your access?
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#17I'm not even sure if that possibility exists but since your account does not seem to be attached to anything personal as far as I can see and since you have barely posted / commented here what is the reason you want it deleted ? Keep in mind that deleting an account means that all the replies to your comments / submissions would be left 'hanging' in space.
I don't know about the US, but over here in the Netherlands any service must respond to a request to remove your records. They must comply, or provide a very good reason why your comments/submissions must remain. (In discussions comments can stay if required for the discussion to make sense, but the name has to go).
A real name has to go, but there is no requirement to remove a nickname or an account.
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#18Sorry to those who are curious, but I'm not going to state my reason - it's not all that personal but is still well with in the realm of "my own business". Surely it's not a prerequisite for deleting an account.
If I knew that there wasn't a standard way to delete accounts I probably wouldn't have signed up in the first place. It might help keep the number of temporary accounts, so there's a chance that it's a feature.
The current plan is to wait a while longer, then I'll send PG an email.
A point that I find interesting is that if I didn't care about the community at all I could probably exit the site very rapidly by way of a submission script - not my style, but does make me wonder if it's been tried before. I'm sure it's quicker than an exchange of emails :) And it remains an option if nothing else will do the trick.
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#19Just post two ironically abusive comments and before long you're banned with no appeal or explanation, worked for me.
(or that's what I think happened - they even let you post for 2 weeks without telling you no-one can read it!)