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I always thought that accounts aren't deleted becasue it's a "policy", but becasue if you made posts, and then the account is gone, what to do with the posts?
Why do you want to delete your account?
If it's to change your name, contact "jeremy" (the administrator).
If you don't want to participate in LQ anymore, how does it hurt that you still have an account?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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The only personal information we store is email address, and you're free to change to to anything you'd like. We're also happy to change your username if you'd like.
The only personal information we store is email address, and you're free to change to to anything you'd like. We're also happy to change your username if you'd like.
--jeremy
Sounds fair enough, but I'm still curious- I've seen other forums where user accounts were deleted, and it didn't affect their posts. A "[deleted]" tag was added to their username, that's all. Why can't LQ do that? (Again, just curious. I personally like it here and hope to learn so I can share. )
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