It's not exactly clear how and if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox I'd like to try that first.
Edit: Thanks for the tip - title changed, hopefully that helps.
If I knew that there wasn't a standard way to delete accounts I probably wouldn't have signed up in the first place. It might help keep the number of temporary accounts, so there's a chance that it's a feature.
The current plan is to wait a while longer, then I'll send PG an email.
A point that I find interesting is that if I didn't care about the community at all I could probably exit the site very rapidly by way of a submission script - not my style, but does make me wonder if it's been tried before. I'm sure it's quicker than an exchange of emails :) And it remains an option if nothing else will do the trick.
Is that your way of threatening ?
> And it remains an option if nothing else will do the trick.
Oh, yes it seems it is.
Well, here's news for you:
A surefire way to get yourself banned, not deleted is such a script.
That means all your information from the past is just as visible as it is today.
And I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a reason if you ask someone to do work for you, it's the polite thing.
ANY words you write on the internet or even in email start to have a life of their own right after you hit that 'reply' button. If you're the kind of person that would not stand by their words even years later then you probably shouldn't be clicking that button.
It saves others work down the line, and it saves you embarrassment.
Online practices that were downright conservative in 1997 would expose personal details today. Similarly, what is safe now, likely won't be in the future as data from even more sources gets correlated.
"ANY words you write on the internet or even in email start to have a life of their own right after you hit that 'reply' button. If you're the kind of person that would not stand by their words even years later then you probably shouldn't be clicking that button."
This idea is ridiculous. People can't be expected to never change their minds and email users clearly have an expectation of privacy. Perhaps a few odd characters would happily "stand by their words" and share their email histories with the world, but the vast majority of us would not.
Keep in mind that deleting an account means that all the replies to your comments / submissions would be left 'hanging' in space.
I read it to mean 'dave australia', if he is actually called 'dave au' then that's slightly different.
If you don't mind me asking, can we know why anyone would want to delete their account?
Your comments?
Your name from the comments?
Remove your access?
(or that's what I think happened - they even let you post for 2 weeks without telling you no-one can read it!)
"if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox"
Since this is standard netiquette, actually his mailbox would be an extremely unusual place for questions like this.
I know pg is PG, but that doesn't seem relevant to this.
