Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Hi. Please delete all of my threads/posts and then delete my account fully. Thank you. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 We don't delete content but we can anonymize it. I'll start the process in about 30 minutes in case you want to reply to that. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 3 hours ago, requinix said: We don't delete content but we can anonymize it. I'll start the process in about 30 minutes in case you want to reply to that. Ok. And there's no way to fully delete my account?... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Guest said: Ok. And there's no way to fully delete my account?... Not you personally, no. To be clear, I'm only talking about not deleting content - as in posts. We can delete the account itself. Edited November 5, 2021 by requinix Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, requinix said: Not you personally, no. To be clear, I'm only talking about not deleting content - as in posts. We can delete the account itself. Ok. Yes, I would like my account fully deleted please, as long as the threads/posts also get deleted too. Edited November 5, 2021 by Guest Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Guest said: Ok. Yes, I would like my account fully deleted please, as long as the threads/posts also get deleted too. No, I'm saying the account will get deleted but the threads and posts will not. They will get anonymized so they aren't associated with (what used to be) your account, but they will still exist. Edited November 5, 2021 by requinix Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, requinix said: No, I'm saying the account will get deleted but the threads and posts will not. They will get anonymized so they aren't associated with (what used to be) your account, but they will still exist. Alright, let's just do that then. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Solution Share Posted November 5, 2021 Alright, then I'll do it in about 10 minutes. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 3 hours ago, requinix said: Alright, then I'll do it in about 10 minutes. Quick question: In these posts here that you've quoted me in, will my username still be shown? Or will it turn into something like, "1 minute ago, [deleted] said:"? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Guest said: Quick question: In these posts here that you've quoted me in, will my username still be shown? Or will it turn into something like, "1 minute ago, [deleted] said:"? It will say "Guest". Edited November 5, 2021 by requinix Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 3 hours ago, requinix said: It will say "Guest". Ok, sounds good. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, requinix said: It will say "Guest". At least it should... There might be some caches in play that still need to refresh? If it doesn't get fixed in a few minutes then I'll deal with it myself. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 So apparently there are technical reasons why it can't delve into quotes like that: because they're embedded into posts according to the state of the source post at the time it was quoted. I've edited my posts to remove the username, but the truth is that once the content (with usernames attached) gets onto the internet, it's already been scraped and cached and archived. We can remove accounts and erase IP addresses and other identifying information from our database, but even if we could remove every instance of the username from the site (which can't include people manually writing out the name in their replies anyway) it's a trivial process to head over to Google or archive.org and see what they stored before that happened. At the very least, with the username removed from this thread, there's no way for anyone - myself included* - to find out what posts were associated with the author of this thread. * at least not once I've forgotten the username, which I mostly have already Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/314172-removal/#findComment-1591801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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