Canceling my account

PerryMan2018 · Sep 2, 2020

How do I cancel my account

chicago · Sep 2, 2020

You can't. But you can delete your posts and erase whatever info you put on your profile

PerryMan2018 · Sep 4, 2020

How do I do that?

chicago · Sep 4, 2020

Go to each of your posts and hit "edit post" to delete.

Go to your profile, edit it, erase the info...

oldgeezer · Sep 4, 2020

It used to be that you could not cancel your account.
However, that is no longer true.

I was being a smart ass one time when someones account was canceled.
I commented that if your want your account cancelled you just need to be an A-hole and start a bunch of crap and they will cancel your account but if you ask nicely they will not.
One of the moderators replied that was no longer true that if you asked them your account can be cancelled.

There is an advise forum, try posting this question there.
Or send a PM to someone with a moderator title.

chicago · Sep 5, 2020

If you have a good reason they will - like if you're an author and you want all your works removed, there's some kind of safety issue, etc. They don't just do it if you ask.

If you want more info, you can try to post the question in the tech support forum - the advise forum is for like emotional or tickling advise type shit.

chicago · Sep 5, 2020

TMF Jeff said:
We don't mass-delete content for people except in extremely rare circumstances where there might be a verifiable legal or safety issue. Because your contributions don't exist in a void, they're all part of a discussion and we don't want to be pulling pieces out of conversations like a Jenga tower, rendering them increasingly meaningless until they collapse.

You can go back and manually delete your own content though, by editing your post and removing its contents.

As for the account, we will kill your account for you if you want, which will change all of your posts to "guest."

But we prefer not to, because it's often just busy work. There's usually no reason a person can't just walk away from their TMF account rather than have it cancelled entirely, and they want me to be their willpower enforcer, which I don't want to do. Or they want to make a point by announcing that they want to cancel their account, which is silly because there's nothing here to really cancel.

Except in rare cases where people have a whole social media presence that matches their TMF ID, like a model or producer or something.

We're not inflexible about it - if there's a real reason you need our help cleaning out your TMF presence, we'll find a way to help you. But we want to avoid being asked to do busy work that doesn't really need doing at all, and could be accomplished just as easily by the person simply not coming here anymore.