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Animangachik737
Joined: 04 Apr 2007
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:32 am
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I don't really want to use this account and I don't know how to delete it, so could someone help me? please?
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Tempest
I Run this place.
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Joined: 29 Dec 2001
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:41 am
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For technical reasons, we don't delete accounts. Things done by a person, be they forum posts, encyclopedia submissions, or other, need to be tied to an account, even after that person no longer uses the account.
If you aren't interested in using ANN any more, you can just stop using it and let the account lie dormant.
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10円
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:11 pm
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In the consumer Wintel world, when a user creates something and then the user gets deleted the child object simply becomes an orphan until a new link is created. But, in the database realm you wont normally have orphans unless something breaks. Even forums that allow you to "delete" your user account often just set a flag and don't really delete anything. It's the same thing with enterprise-level software; if somebody tries to permanently delete an employee record from within a commercial purchasing system they risk impacting everything that employee ever created or modified. The paper trail mentality lives on, even in the electronic world. Not sure why I felt like adding that but, there you go.
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Rumoki
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:56 pm
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I want to have my account deleted as well (I haven't posted anything much). Coz I want to make a new one.
Unless.. Tempest, is there anyway I can change my name instead of deleting my account?
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Joined: 14 Aug 2006
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:01 pm
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Rumoki wrote: | I want to have my account deleted as well (I haven't posted anything much). Coz I want to make a new one.
Unless.. Tempest, is there anyway I can change my name instead of deleting my account? |
Actually that is something I've been meaning to ask for a while but never have, love that memory loss. Can you change people's user names while keeping the account the same? The only change I wanted was to capitalize the "p" in psycho. I nitpick about some things, stupid OCD.
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