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We don't have any set schedule but:
* We'll remove any account by request, as long as there are no posts associated with it.
* We periodically prune old accounts that have not accessed the site in many years and have never posted. Before doing this we always contact the member notifying them of the pending deletion and give them a couple weeks to log into LQ, which will prevent the account from being pruned.
Searching common terms like loan, credit, financ, card, free, casino, game, online, poker, sell, buy, order, wow, porn, sex, etc, etc return 300+ accounts created between 2007 and now that could be slotted for removal. If you would email me a list of plain user Ids I could return a FP-filtered list.
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Originally Posted by unSpawn
Searching common terms like loan, credit, financ, card, free, casino, game, online, poker, sell, buy, order, wow, porn, sex, etc, etc return 300+ accounts created between 2007 and now that could be slotted for removal. If you would email me a list of plain user Ids I could return a FP-filtered list.
I was able to automate the removal of most of these accounts.
* We'll remove any account by request, as long as there are no posts associated with it.
* We periodically prune old accounts that have not accessed the site in many years and have never posted. Before doing this we always contact the member notifying them of the pending deletion and give them a couple weeks to log into LQ, which will prevent the account from being pruned.
--jeremy
i think all what u tell is ... BS. i registered 2008... and i never made a single post since that time... the only post i made up till now was the question how to remove my profile. And now? i have a post... does this mean that u will never remove my profile?
If your forum has a design which removes every post from a poster once the account is removed then u should really think of a change... i never saw a forum in all those decades i use forums which disallow a user to remove his profile/account. Shame!
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Originally Posted by joysn
i think all what u tell is ... BS. i registered 2008... and i never made a single post since that time... the only post i made up till now was the question how to remove my profile. And now? i have a post... does this mean that u will never remove my profile?
If your forum has a design which removes every post from a poster once the account is removed then u should really think of a change... i never saw a forum in all those decades i use forums which disallow a user to remove his profile/account. Shame!
i dont understand why i need to discuss offline. i want my profile to be removed and thats it?
and i want others to see what policies u have and how u deal with such issues...
Change your email to garbage - e.g. joysn -at- linuxquestions.org or something else which looks like a valid email address but isn't.
Change your password to random garbage or a hexadecimal hash... Click on the "save changes" button.
Logout
The only info Linuxquestions would have on you at that point is the IP addresses for posts - and I'm afraid that's unavoidable and if it worries you - pull the plug...
Goodbye, etc
Last edited by el chapulín; 09-14-2012 at 10:16 AM.
Reason: was going to provide info re locking down the profile and removing pms but why bother...
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