Delete Your Account..

[Killercop]

How do you delete your account in this forum?

 

[Tommi]

Please ignore my stupid post

 

[daan]

You can't. We won't.

Why do you want it deleted anyway?

 

[Jordan]

There's no function in our forum software that allows users to delete their own account. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but it does prevent a user from deleting their account, only to have someone else quickly re-register their name to impersonate them. I do have the ability to delete accounts, but I do not do it (nor will my staff) because it is a time consuming task that distracts the moderation team from more important duties. If you don't want to use your account any more, simply change your email address to something @example.com and it will be impossible for us to contact you again. To second what daan said, why exactly do you want to delete your account? Any feedback you could provide may help me improve the site.

 

[McLaren]

There's no function in our forum software that allows users to delete their own account. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but it does prevent a user from deleting their account, only to have someone else quickly re-register their name to impersonate them. I do have the ability to delete accounts, but I do not do it (nor will my staff) because it is a time consuming task that distracts the moderation team from more important duties. If you don't want to use your account any more, simply change your email address to something @example.com and it will be impossible for us to contact you again. To second what daan said, why exactly do you want to delete your account? Any feedback you could provide may help me improve the site.

Which means they don't want everyone requesting accounts to be deleted to change their names...like I did when I first joined.

 

[Danny]

If you don't want to use your account any more, simply change your email address to something @example.com and it will be impossible for us to contact you again. To second what daan said, why exactly do you want to delete your account? Any feedback you could provide may help me improve the site.

I'd feel sorry for someone who ends up getting the emails by chance.

Although having said that, if someone has an email ending in @example.com they're asking for it.
Especially if their real name is Joseph Bloggs.

 

[Jordan]

I'd feel sorry for someone who ends up getting the emails by chance.

Although having said that, if someone has an email ending in @example.com they're asking for it.

That's why I suggested example.com. It's a reserved domain name by the IANA which can be used for examples or in documentation by anyone on the internet. Nobody will ever receive email at that domain.

 

[Danny]

That's why I suggested example.com. It's a reserved domain name by the IANA which can be used for examples or in documentation by anyone on the internet. Nobody will ever receive email at that domain.

That's pretty interesting.
But now I know it's unobtainable, I really want an example.com email address.

 

[Orion]

Deleting accounts will result in a lower population of accounts on GTP, and Jordon doesn't want that. Having almost 100,000 members here makes this site look more popular, and having people delete thier accounts will make that number drop. 👎