How do delete account from photo.net

<p>How do you delete your photo.net account and all of your postings?</p>

<p>You can't delete your posts; it's in the Terms of Use you agreed to when you signed up. The best you can do is close your account.</p>

<p>By and large TOS agreements are not enforceable. They are contracts of adhesion and a two-year old, who can not legally enter into a contract, could sign up. There are always ways to delete...</p>

<p>Nope your posts will float around the internet for eternity. </p>

The answer is the same as the last time you asked it: http://www.photo.net/site-help-forum/00Zwiz

<p>Since this question concerns photo.net administrative policies I'll move this to the <a href="../site-help-forum/">Site Help Forum</a>.</p>

<p>Many questions about site polices can be resolved via the links at the bottom of every photo.net page: FAQ, Terms of Use, how to contact site admin, etc.</p>

<p>Thanks. I think it is time to move on to site managed by adults.</p>

As Josh Root already told you, you can ask for a name change so that your forum posts would no longer be identified with you.

 

If this were a paper magazine that had published your reader letters on various topic and you decided to drop your subscription, do you

think the publisher would take scissors, locate all copies with your letters and cut them out? That's the analogy between old technology

and new technology.

<p>Fallacious argument, because they've done that at least once. Several years ago, one guy infuriated the administration so much that they deleted him and his thousands of posts. It was as if he never existed. (Parenthetically, he was one of the best photographers on photo.net, but a colossal pain in the ass.)</p>

<p>But Ben is correct: delete your biography and photos, change your name, and close your account. Byeee.</p>

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<p>I think it is time to move on to site managed by adults.</p>

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<p>Zing!</p>

<p>Oh wow. </p>

<p>I am confused. If it's the management you don't like, why do you care about your posts being still around? If you are somehow embarrassed by your posts, what does the management have to do with it?</p>

<p>Also, you have that frequent poster mark, but you are not a subscriber, which means you have used their service a lot but not paid any money, and now are name-calling?</p>

<p>I don't get it</p>

<p>John,</p>

<p>If Dave Sims is correct, the solution lies with being a sufficiently colossal pain in the ass... clearly you're not trying hard enough.</p>

<p>Chris: I was a subscriber -- but no longer. I try not to be a pain in the ass. There are enough of those already.</p>

<p>What's wrong with the actual solution? -</p>

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<li>change name so it won't point back to you</li>

<li>go away and don't come back</li>

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<p>BTW, do you usually insult a waiter in a restaurant <em>before</em> you are served your food? Just wondering.</p>

<p>By the way, is Dave actually right? I've seen some bad asses kicked off the site, but in my years here, I have never seen whole rafts of posts deleted except in a single thread where someone has gone paranoid-schizoid like.</p>

<p>JDM - You got the plan. Being in the digital intel business, I want to leave as few footprints as possible. If the restaurant serves bad food, I never have to deal with the waiter.</p>

<p>You seem to miss the point, John, it's not necessarily that the food is "bad", it's what happens to it on the way to your table that matters. Or is your food created by the computer on the spot? What happens if the computer gets sore at you?</p>

<p>I am not in "intel" or other security fields, but lots of people have been covering their tracks for decades now.</p>

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<p align="center">“Eternal paranoia is the price of liberty. Vigilance is not enough.”</p>

<p align="right">Len Deighton, <em>Berlin Gam</em>e, p.40.</p>

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<p>The answer, as has been pointed out, is the same as last time you told us you were leaving. Essentially, just delete any photos, delete any personal info you've entered into the bio area, change your name, and mark your account as deleted.</p>

<p>Photo.net tries to be the best to the greatest number of people. But we can't be everything to every person. There are always going to be people who don't like or agree with some aspect of the site. And that is perfectly reasonable. There are many other photography sites out there and I'm sure that you will find one that is more to your liking.</p>

<p>As there really isn't any reason to keep it open, thread closed.</p>