[X] My Assistant

[Agent Logan]

What is the forum's policy on account deletion?

Do administrators delete accounts when asked, or do they not like to permanently delete the accounts of users as a matter of policy, even if they are asked to do so? I ask because I wanted to delete my forum account (not because I don't like the forums, but because it's been a long time since I've been active and I simply can't devote the kind of time to the forums that I used to) but I've gotten no response back about it.

[Mad Max]

Why not just remain inactive, then?

[English]

I think that the moderators will not delete your account because it's much better for you to just be inactive. If your account gets deleted then so do your posts, and if this happened to everyone then the forum would start to lose more and more content. The best thing for you to do is to just log out and never to come back, it's doing nobody any harm you just being in the distance out there - and it means if you change your mind you can always come back!

[Jardel]

Furthermore the Administrators do not want to deal with you when you go emo, decide you want your account back and start creating new accounts to ask for your old account back.

[Agent Logan]

I think that the moderators will not delete your account because it's much better for you to just be inactive. If your account gets deleted then so do your posts, and if this happened to everyone then the forum would start to lose more and more content. The best thing for you to do is to just log out and never to come back, it's doing nobody any harm you just being in the distance out there - and it means if you change your mind you can always come back!

Well, that's sort of the point. I would like my content removed from the site, and the account to be deleted, pretty much for the same reason that you can do it with a Myspace or Facebook account. Internet forums can be used to track someone, and I would prefer it if this account could be permanently deleted. I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to ask for.

Furthermore the Administrators do not want to deal with you when you go emo, decide you want your account back and start creating new accounts to ask for your old account back.

Y'know I didn't say anything inflammatory or inappropriate, but here you are insulting me for no reason at all. You can really learn something about how a person treats someone when they don't have to be decent to them.

[MaximumPezcore]

If you don't want someone to track you here, like, if you use this username in other places or in your email, for instance, why don't you get a name change?

[Choked]

Furthermore the Administrators do not want to deal with you when you go emo, decide you want your account back and start creating new accounts to ask for your old account back.

Y'know I didn't say anything inflammatory or inappropriate, but here you are insulting me for no reason at all. You can really learn something about how a person treats someone when they don't have to be decent to them.

That is directed solely at you. It's just happened before.

[English]

Track someone and find out what.. that you were dissapointed at the E3? Seriously dude this is an internet forum and there's not all that much that people can personally learn about you so long as your not stupid. If you want to protect yourself when going to other forums then do what Pez said and just ask the moderators for a name change. Either way you look at it their not going to change the rules for you so just log out and don't come back or ask kindly for a name change.

[Average Joe]

He may be going about starting a new chapter in life or something and doesn't want people to dig up potentially embarrassing stuff about him based on his posts. It's hard to recall if you've mentioned a bit too much in one (or more) of your posts, especially if you've written >5500 of them over 6 years.

But if accounts could be deleted along with the posts, it would bring in chaos. Imagine an extensive conversation between person A and person B. Next, remove everything said by one of them. Sounds ridiculous now, doesn't it? A forum thread would probably sound similar if one participant's posts were removed.

I was a member of a small, class forum years ago. Over the course of a year I shat out ~700 posts. The forum eventually died and was forgotten (by all but the spambots). A couple of years later I decided I wanted to delete my account along with all my posts, but even the admin had forgotten his password by then. As I had no other alternative (unlike free time), I logged on, queried all my posts and edited them clean out one by one. All ~700 of them. Took 2 hours.*
Not exactly practical, but quick Maths leaves you with 16 hours of life to waste if you want to wipe everything out. It might take either more or less than that, depending on how picky you'll be.

*Yes, I wasn't mentally sound at the time and needed to unwind.**

**All is well now.

[Fallout]

Unless his name is actually Agent Logan or he discloses it, no oen is going to be able to track him to this forum or that account.

[Jardel]

Y'know I didn't say anything inflammatory or inappropriate, but here you are insulting me for no reason at all. You can really learn something about how a person treats someone when they don't have to be decent to them.

As much as I'd love to show you what indecent is I have to go to work so I'm in a hurry.

Anyway, my vast experience as a moderator/administrator and the fact that MySpace and Facebook are set up so that you can undelete your profile (sometimes more easily than you can delete it), along with the fact that you're posting threads like this when you claim you don't have time for the forum, tell me that it's highly likely if we did delete your account then you'd want it undeleted in the foreseeable future. Particularly since apparently the truth hurts.

As for tracking you down, you mean us to delete every single post you've ever made? 'Cause Web Archive will have copies of that, along with your profile so basically it just re-enforces you can't really remove information off the Internet anyway.

[Agent Logan]

I don't understand your hostility.

But what you highlighted is exactly what I'm talking about. I don't like that someone just tooling around the net can track me without any real effort to it, and all they have to know is my e-mail or my name. I wouldn't call it unjustifiable paranoia, I'd just call it entering a new phase of my life where I may need to interview for someone who'll be tracking my personal life, in which case (no offense to anyone here at all, I enjoy the game and have on the whole enjoyed my time here) it probably wouldn't benefit me that my actual name could pop up associated with contract killing on a forum I signed up for when I was barely 15.

[The Tetra Spirit]

But why would your actual name turn up a hit on a site like this if you never had it associated with it?
As far as I can remember, nobody has ever said their full name on this site. Maybe through IMs or something people might have, but not on here.
And I also have a hard time imagining what company would put your background to such scrutiny to find this, or care if they did. <.<

And Jardel's always been kind of a hardass, how haven't you found that out by now?

[Jardel]

I don't understand your hostility.

You open your request with some passive aggressive nonsense about how you're received no response to... well whatever, with all this non-sense about you still like the forum but don't have time for it (but apparently do have time to request deleting) without stating actually why you want it deleted other than you do and you don't understand why I make a crack on your expense?

Believe me if there were open hostility you'd know about it.

But what you highlighted is exactly what I'm talking about. I don't like that someone just tooling around the net can track me without any real effort to it, and all they have to know is my e-mail or my name.

The only people who can search the forum for members by email are myself and ampburner, neither of who even lives in your country let alone is likely to have a reason to do a background check on you.

Out of curiousity though I decided to do a quick check on if I could find what I assume is your real name (based off your email) on the forums, it came with nothing.

You too can do this sorts of checks by going to Google and searching for: [your real name] hitmanforum.com

I checked for your email on the forums. Nothing.

I wouldn't call it unjustifiable paranoia, I'd just call it entering a new phase of my life where I may need to interview for someone who'll be tracking my personal life, in which case (no offense to anyone here at all, I enjoy the game and have on the whole enjoyed my time here) it probably wouldn't benefit me that my actual name could pop up associated with contract killing on a forum I signed up for when I was barely 15.

But you don't want to do anything yourself to fix it (or just, God forbid, accept you were an idiot when you were a teenager like everyone else has to) but you want to propose that your account should be deleted so as to help you with your quest. In fact it looks like you didn't even take the time to Google your own name or answer my questions regarding the specifics of what you mean by account deletion.

I can only assume you're more interested in the drama than practicalities... and you're still acting like a teenager so anything you might have posted on this forum is pretty much inconsequential to the impression you're going to make in person.

[MaximumPezcore]

Jardel pretty much hit it on the head there, but if you're really hellbent on this, then;

I don't understand your hostility.

But what you highlighted is exactly what I'm talking about. I don't like that someone just tooling around the net can track me without any real effort to it, and all they have to know is my e-mail or my name. I wouldn't call it unjustifiable paranoia, I'd just call it entering a new phase of my life where I may need to interview for someone who'll be tracking my personal life, in which case (no offense to anyone here at all, I enjoy the game and have on the whole enjoyed my time here) it probably wouldn't benefit me that my actual name could pop up associated with contract killing on a forum I signed up for when I was barely 15.

Change your email for the account, and then search your full name into Google along with "hitmanforum", see what pops up, and either edit those posts if they were made by you, ask the person who made it (if they are still active) to edit your name in the post to Agent Logan, or perhaps if you can find these posts with your full name in them, maybe one of the mods will be alright with slightly editing the posts in question to change your full name to Agent Logan in the post.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, man.

[Agent Logan]

In my experience, it's actually incredibly easy to delete someone's account. I was an administrator on an internet forum related to the game NationStates some years ago, and I had the ability to literally delete a member with the click of a button, so I have a lot of trouble buying that there is nothing you can do.

All I had to do was enter the administrator center, and there was even an option in the menu bar to the left that said "delete member". Any topics or posts by that member remained, but appeared to have come from a user with the name "GUEST" without any revealing information or ability to track them. I'm sure hitmanforum is slightly different from the forum I was an administrator on, but I can't imagine they were that different considering they both run on Invision Power Board.

All I did was make a request with all due respect, and it was ignored/mocked. I thought I was asking for a very simple favor.

[MaximumPezcore]

Why don't you just...change your name and email?

[English]

Because he's a whining little emo kid that loves the attention.

[Sketch]

Seriously?

[The Killer Instinct]

Because he's a whining little emo kid that loves the attention.

That's a cheap shot Martin, come on. He was only asking a simple request, and if it wasn't feasible it should have been locked. Also obligatory