I would like to request my account be deleted and the name associated with my posts be changed to deleted. After finding out you all control my data (like Facebook, Reddit etc) I am wanting to leave here. Thanks

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If your 'complaint' is based on this:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...in-4175656773/

I'm not sure what anyone, anywhere can do for you, since you seem to miss the point. You were asked to not edit your posts that had already received replies, since it makes the threads harder to read/understand later. That's what you're calling 'you all CONTROL MY DATA'??? It's bad manners, and only confuses those later. If you post something that says "I'd like to do xxx, any ideas?" and someone answers, telling you to use program J to do it, and you then change your post to say "I'd like to do YYYY, which has NOTHING to do with XXX", anyone coming across that later will get the wrong information, ideas, or hints. It wastes their time, and the time of other posters who are trying to help you, since THEY now have incorrect information.

If you honestly can't see the difference, not sure what anyone can do for you.

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Your posts here are not your data. If you're not comfortable with that: well, I thank you for having joined us briefly.

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My viewpoint is that anything put out on a public site is "out there" as soon as I post it.

No matter that I could edit it or delete it, it was there once and the original can be resurrected.

I never bother to read the fine print, but still pretty sure that all sites like this, or stack overflow or Facebook, all have fine print saying, blah-blah public domain, blah-blah Caveat Utilitor, ad infinitum.

You posted it, then own it. You want to leave a site, stop visiting it. I have a membership at stack overflow, but I don't use it. If there's a hit on that site for code, I'll read and evaluate it. But I don't post there, too many attackers on that site, or I just don't fit in on that site. Whatever.

Maybe learn from experiences like this versus wanting to have used what you consider to be some great exit line.

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yeah I was on that other sight, not this one, as a member and had removed everything I had in a post. doing the edit remove it save post, and they put everything back the way it was.

To be very, very clear, no posts made by the OP have been deleted or changed by anyone other than the OP. Period.

Two threads on the same question were merged and thread title updated from titles of both threads, after which the OP deleted or changed completely the content of previously replied posts. No one but the OP modified or deleted any of their publicly posted content, ever.

I'd just let OP go.. delete his account, close this thread,( and all of his others ones,) then go on about the day.

Some of the advice the OP has been given is likely to be useful to others, so my opinion is that the LQ rule of “no deletion of accounts that have posts” be adhered to...but yes, they should just stop coming here if they’re not happy with the help we’ve provided. And good luck to them.

I thought it was possible to delete ones account, just the post stay.

one should know that e-paper is cheep by even today's economy. no reason to remove and replace what one has written. just add to the thread, or start a new one if the topic changed.

That's exactly what happens.

From the site FAQ, https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...count_deletion

I learned a long time ago that the internet is a public place. If you put something up there, it's up there.

This is a completely separate issue from condemning those that want to look at stuff you didn't and wouldn't put up there.