Topic: How to delete bitcointalk forum account? (Read 7665 times)

Bitcointalk is not like Facebook and Twitter where there is an option to deactivate your account or deleting your account, all you need to do if you wish to say goodbye to the forum is to never log in again simple and if you are concern about personal data, just know that any thing you ever posted on the internet can never be erase totally.

I assume you want to delete all posts and the account itself. You cannot delete your account.
At best, you can try to delete all posts that are deletable (not all are – depending on where they were published), or nullify (erase) their content.

Since your account is still a Newbie with low activity, I guess you could do something like plagiarize and then report the plagiarized post, which may get it Nuked. A Nuked account gets its posts deleted. I'm trying to find the exact activity limit for a Nuked Newbie.   

Hi tarazet. Are you deleted already? LOL

James Bond ! how you doin man.

lol

My name is Bond ... !

Sounds creepy 

You should have renamed it Anonymatlas

Cool 

As you can see here, I only change the username to "Anonymous" on request.

If you read this post it means that your account isn't deleted yet.

My Real name is Peter Parker.

Not at all.  My name is really Robert Paulson.

Password please... LOL 

Just forget anything till you cant remember your account and password. It works, REALLY.

My name is really Matthew N. Wright.

Got a problem with that?

          

Why would u want to delete it O_o? Just forget it

Deleting accounts doesn't mess up any threads, like this thread. It just changes to anonymous, with no profile information. Post stays intact.
 

Also re: vpn, you can use Tor as well. I don't know how many forums block proxies though, I don't typically use them.

I say this is just fear mongering... Doesn't matter how you twist it.

You didn't get my point. It is not about my future use or "not-use" of the internet. It is about information privacy in terms of logging and deleting logged data when requested to. Surely, the forum would not collapse by deleting the data that can connect my account to me as a person, and I think you did not want to suggest this.

I am perfectly OK with logging and being able to be connected to my IP address as long as I use the internet. But I start thinking when I used the internet at some point in the past in a legal way and the account that is no longer used by me and therefore the data connecting the account to me, is possible to be compromised, thus possibly connecting me to a crime I did not do.
But you convinced me not to be so paranoid, I think you are right, the police/prosecutor would indeed need to prove that I am the culprit and that the account was not hacked as soon as I say "but my account was hacked".


This is a good suggestion, thank you. I will think about using VPN or other anonymizing services to hide my IP address.

After the last two answers, at last, I will change my password and stop answering and spamming the forum with my personal paranoia.

I've signed up for literally hundreds of web sites and message boards and forgotten about maybe 90% of them.

Never, never use real information about yourself on free web sites.  On pay sites you generally have to.

Well, your IP is not your private information. It MUST be known if you want to roam around the interwebz. That's how they designed the internet.
If you were so worried about it why didn't you use a slow anonymizing network?

But now lets use a little analogy:
If your car is stolen and used on a bank heist are you still to blame?

And dude, being offensive? You registered here yesterday and the only posts you made were to ask for someone to delete your account, so I'm not offending you, I'm stating a fact: You are indeed a moron!

Or do you go around randomly entering peoples' houses and later ask them to put you out just like you did here? FFS

thank you all (well, most of you ) for the information.

I just changed my profile data to fake data, for me that is almost as good as deleting my personal data, but not quite in regards of IP addresses. I will change my password to a really long random one (as suggested by deepceleron) and logout. After that, I hope, a deletion request is not needed anymore by me to keep my privacy.


perhaps I am just accustomed to the information privacy laws in my country that allow me to request deletion of data, that allows connecting to me as a real person, from anyone as long as it is not needed by law to keep the data... I hope information privacy is still a valued goods in the bitcoin community.. I don't want my account being hacked and used over TOR network to do illegal stuff in this forum, and later police knocking on my door because my IP address was saved when I registered to or posted my first three posts in the forum... but on the other hand, perhaps the forum operators are required by law to keep my IP address saved... the whole deletion process and consideration of different laws is just too complicated for me to keep up my deletion request... so for now I just hope SMF is unhackable and the hosting of this forum is totally safe as well...

perhaps my point is not valid because this hacking scenario is in fact impossible and I am just a little bit paranoid ..  


it seems that SMF is really not as good as i thought, just look at other forum software where "deleting" user accounts does not disrupt any conversations and no postings or conversations go missing by deleting user accounts. sure the account would not be actually "deleted".. but wait, if all account data except for the user ID is completely substituted by a "deleted user #399" account data, for me that means "deleting" the original account...
I think I was not precise enough... I was not interested in deleting the account per se but in deleting any information that can be used to track back to me as a person...
I really have to choose my words more carefully in the future (I still want to register again at some point in the future)

please don't be offensive to anyone in this forum, this does not provide a good image for the bitcoin community, especially to newbies. I think it would be much better to try being helpful instead of being offensive without contributing anything...

I hope someone can still understand me without thinking of me as a troll
have a good time

Because he's a moron.

Go to the "change password" feature. Type a whole bunch of characters you won't remember in as your new password. Press save.

Actually deleting an account would be disruptive to a forum, parts of a conversation would go missing and make threads into nonsense, so it's normally not done.

PM Theymos if you want to get it deleted... though not sure why you care about an account where the only 2 posts are right here.

After how much time will it be deleted? How do I verify account deletion without ever trying to login back again?

What irritates me is..  "as soon as" I "never login back" ..has no end point, does that mean the account would never be deleted?

You need to login at least 24hours straight then hit on logout button and never login back, you'll be forgotten then as soon as you follow carefully the steps.

How can I delete my bitcointalk.org forum account?