Please, Delete My Account.

<p>Please, delete my account.</p>

Please check the archives. While doing so you may also find that double posting is against forum rules :-)

<p>You can't delete your account in the sense that you can't have all your contributions to the site removed. Since you have no images posted (which is all you could have deleted), I've marked your account as closed for you, as requested. That's as close to "deletion" as photo.net comes.</p>

<p>Can an individual close their own account?<br>

I know that this was possible in the past but I cannot seem to find a way of doing so.</p>

<p>Yeah, the option via our workspace pages to close/delete our accounts seems to have disappeared or been buried in a sub-sub-sub menu.</p>

<p>The member's option to close an account didn't actually do anything except flag the account as "deleted". No content was deleted. And the member had the option of returning and reopening the account later. It was confusing, and difficult to tell whether a member was banned or had voluntarily closed their accounts.</p>

<p>Members can delete their own portfolios, presentations and classified ads, but not content submitted to discussion forums, critiques or articles. Those are retained for continuity, otherwise the forum discussions and comments/critiques can become a garbled mess. Around 2010 virtually all of my critiques on photo.net photos vanished. I didn't delete them (I'm not sure I could have). It was just a bizarre system glitch. But it made a mess of hundreds of photo critique discussions, as it appeared folks were replying to invisible comments.</p>

<p>Some folks who are no longer active on photo.net simply stop participating, change their public profile pages to redirect to their websites, blogs, photo hosting sites or social media accounts.</p>

<p>I'm surprised there's no recognition that terminology is important to the perception by other members. </p>

<p>"Deleted" carries with it a far less friendly connotation than, say, "deactivated", or some other way to describe a user no longer has an account. Similarly, "banned" serves little purpose by its announcement publicly on the member's page. </p>

<p>Alternatively, it shouldn't be difficult to hide a member's page who is no longer a participant by choice or otherwise. Their forum posts can remain, and clicking their name can point to a page explaining why a deactivated account is not accessible. </p>

<p>What I would appreciate is a way to delete people from my "People Following You" list. There are folks on there who haven't visited PN for seven years and I've got a fairly long list of inactive members following me. I like to occasionally use that list to see what people are up to and make an effort to critique their work, since they've been gracious enough to care to follow me. It used to be that I could sort that list by last date of activity, but that went away, unfortunately, so now I'm stuck with a mostly useless list of followers.</p>

<p>Thanks Lex , I was certain that the option to delete ones own account had existed in the past because I had on a previous occasion deleted my own account. I figured I was somehow looking in the wrong place for that option. Removing the portfolio and leaving a link to another location seems a good work around.</p>

 

<p>Could one of the moderators please contact me? I have issues I need help with regarding removing my account photo of myself and my name from my OLD account. I have tried to email the owner of photo.net a couple times over the last several weeks. I've been polite, but no one answers me. Please, this is quite important to me.<br>

In order to ask my question here in your forum, since I can't get a response via email, I had to sign up for a new account this morning. My old account is 10 years old. My old photo of myself urgently needs to be removed as the most pressing matter for my privacy. My name also needs to be removed or replaced with another name after that. I see you might want to keep my 10 year old posts for continuity to some degree, so changing only the name associated with my account would allow you to maintain that continuity. PLEASE help. This is a very delicate situation for me for personal reasons. Please help me accomplish this fairly minimal request for privacy. Thank you.</p>

Member "l_name" has asked me to comment on this thread that the matter which is detailed above has been resolved.

 

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Please Delete my account

I would like to have my account deleted please!!!!

I would like to have my account deleted please!!!!

 

Your request has been forwarded. Other than this one, there are neither posts nor photos.

Please delete my account too!