Delete EEVblog forum account

[digik]

How can I delete my EEVblog forum account? I haven't found nothing on my panel. Admin please can you delete my account? Thanks!

[Vgkid]

Going from memory, from the post a few weeks ago...
You cannot delete your account, but you can delete all of your post in it.

[rsjsouza]

Vgkid is correct. Check the thread below:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/please-delete-me/

[alsetalokin4017]

Maybe you should complain to whomever is tying you down in front of the computer and forcing you to log in to the forum.   

 

[magetoo]

It's a valid question.  Having an active account means that people could guess the password and start flamewars with other users under your name, for example.  Or you might get notifications via email about things you're not interested in (I don't think that's an issue on this forum but you get the idea).

[CodyW]

Hi Digik,

There's no way you can delete your own account. Dave and the other Administrators have the privileges to do so but won't unless there's a really good reason to.

You can delete your own posts (except ones that start threads, in which case you can edit them).
Accounts are not deleted except under extreme circumstances.

Cody

[EEVblog]

It's a valid question.  Having an active account means that people could guess the password and start flamewars with other users under your name, for example.  Or you might get notifications via email about things you're not interested in (I don't think that's an issue on this forum but you get the idea).

You are free to change your password and email at any time. You are free to delete or edit all your posts at any time.
It can't get much fairer.

[Cerebus]

There's no way you can delete your own account. Dave and the other Administrators have the privileges to do so but won't unless there's a really good reason to.

You can delete your own posts (except ones that start threads, in which case you can edit them).
Accounts are not deleted except under extreme circumstances.

Cody

Which might be that the law requires it in some places. Certainly in the EU data controllers can be required to delete personal information on demand from the data subjects and there are scant few circumstances in which it would be lawful to refuse such a demand. Whether Australian law contains similar provisions I don't know, and a quick search was inconclusive, but I'm inexperienced at trying to navigate Aussie law online. Territoriality gets complicated, but in the EU local law is often applied at the point of delivery of electronic services (cf E-Commerce Directive).

It's probably a moot point as it's unlikely that anyone is going to try and enforce such a demand against Dave. Unless it's a particularly litigious American who gets a default judgement against Dave in absentia and then sends a bounty hunter after him. 

If it were me I'd check my legal position when I got a chance but I wouldn't make it a priority or spend good money for a formal opinion.

[ed_reardon]

Not from a legalistic stance but as a former admin of a forum generating several thousand topics a day, walk away or ask politely for explicit things to be deleted with a fair reason.

A post 'a few beers down' that may jeopardise a job or similar I'd say is fair reason.

Wiping users creates weird gaps in threads and doesn't help anybody searching.

[Cerebus]

Not from a legalistic stance but as a former admin of a forum generating several thousand topics a day, walk away or ask politely for explicit things to be deleted with a fair reason.

A post 'a few beers down' that may jeopardise a job or similar I'd say is fair reason.

Wiping users creates weird gaps in threads and doesn't help anybody searching.

Moot point here, as any user can edit or delete their own posts without restriction.

This is strictly about nuking the underlying account, which is something that the forum software has, as I understand it, problems with without nuking all that account's postings as well (which effect you rightly dislike).

[Don Hills]

Ask the admins to ban you. It'll cover the concerns expressed by Magetoo.

[MK14]

Why is everyone suddenly jumping in and replying to a thread, which is almost exactly one year old ?

[Electro Detective]

Maybe you should complain to whomever is tying you down in front of the computer and forcing you to log in to the forum.   

 

Why is everyone suddenly jumping in and replying to a thread, which is almost exactly one year old ?

Perhaps some people are still tied down
and the person to complain to has left the building    

[MK14]

Maybe you should complain to whomever is tying you down in front of the computer and forcing you to log in to the forum.   

 

Why is everyone suddenly jumping in and replying to a thread, which is almost exactly one year old ?

Most of us are still tied down
and the person to complain to has left the building    

You seem to have chosen a VERY bad example, here.

The OP, carried on, LONG after the request for deletion, and made a number of fresh posts.

Hence giving evidence that giving forum users time to "cool off", may have great wisdom attached to it.

Not on THIS forum, or even forum software. I've seen some web systems, allow users to be able to select a "Delete User" option. In their profile (or similar) page. It has a built in "cooling off" period, of usually at least 7 days. Giving the user time to change their minds.
Maybe such an option could "lock" the user account (leaving all past posts still available for anyone to read), so the user can no longer log in and make posts etc. The "lock" mode can only then (after 7 or 14 days cooling off period) be reversed by a moderator or administrator.

[Ampera]

Just make your password 256 characters long, delete all your posts, change your email to a five minute disposable email, then lose the password. You cannot enter your account, you cannot recover the password, and you have no posts, nor evidence that you were ever here.

[Electro Detective]

Just make your password 256 characters long, delete all your posts, change your email to a five minute disposable email, then lose the password. You cannot enter your account, you cannot recover the password, and you have no posts, nor evidence that you were ever here.

You can't get better than that 


I don't see what the big deal is, if you don't log in ever again eventually the account dies anyway,
assuming the admin doesn't prune off all the old growth after a period of inactivity

If there's posts that are causing grief, the poster should just delete them

You sign up to a forum, you agree to the fair use terms and conditions, you get accepted, it's FREE, no one is key logging you,
what's the problem?

It's an electronics forum not a nutjob troll infested politics, religion, or UFO spotters hangout. 

Please Consider 

[Electro Detective]

Come on, have a giggle, you know you want to   

[EEVblog]

Ask the admins to ban you. It'll cover the concerns expressed by Magetoo.

You can effectively ban yourself by changing your password to some 30 digit long random thing and then not writing it down.

[MK14]

Ask the admins to ban you. It'll cover the concerns expressed by Magetoo.

You can effectively ban yourself by changing your password to some 30 digit long random thing and then not writing it down.

You (ideally) also want/need to do something about the email address, to avoid use of the forgotten my password, retrieve it or sort it out via my existing email address.

Quote comes from the forums, forgotten my password screen(s).

If you've forgotten your login details, don't worry, they can be retrieved. To start this process please enter your username or email address below.
Username/Email:
Continue

Hence this post:

Just make your password 256 characters long, delete all your posts, change your email to a five minute disposable email, then lose the password. You cannot enter your account, you cannot recover the password, and you have no posts, nor evidence that you were ever here.

Although 256 is a bit excessive, I think just 255 characters would do the job. 

[Ampera]

Sorry, I like neat squares of two.

[Rick Law]

Look, may be self-account-deletion is the only way to regain honor after making a ridiculous reply or wrote something stupid?

Kind of an electronic version of the seppuku that the OP wanted to do?

One last sake, and off with this logon...

[xrunner]

Look, may be self-account-deletion is the only way to regain honor after making a ridiculous reply or wrote something stupid? Kind of an electronic version of the seppuku that the OP wanted to do? One last sake, and off with this logon...

Could be that's what they think. But I would say don't worry about things like that. There are so many threads and so many people here that the chance of many of them even being interested in what you may have said is very low, even though when you say something dumb it may seem like 1000 members are right there. Also, people are busy and off to other matters very quickly. In a few days most will have moved on to other matters.

[Cerebus]

Sorry, I like neat squares of two.

You'll never be prime material. 

[MK14]

Sorry, I like neat squares of two.

Then how about you go for 16 or 64.

E.g. 4926573257483685

[Bud]

You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!
(The Eagles, "Hotel California")
 

[P90]

 Seppuku is the only viable solution...

[MK14]

You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!
(The Eagles, "Hotel California")
 

Seppuku is the only viable solution...

As well as the existing "Say Thanks" button/link. We could add a "Hatred/Detest/Disagree/Disapprove User and their post" function. If this ever gets to 10 points, your account gets automatically suspended until the mods/admins agree to release it.
If it ever gets to 20, you get auto perma-banned for life.

For extra effect, the name(s) of the user(s), who have selected this option, could be shown.

tl;dr
Thank : Hate buttons.
N.B. There is a tiny possibility that I am  here.

[Bud]

A similar concept (so called strikes) does not seem to work well on Youtube, does it ?

[MK14]

A similar concept (so called strikes) does not seem to work well on Youtube, does it ?

I was only joking.
The potential for flamewars and other upsets, would make it unlikely to succeed, here.

Youtube somehow (I DON'T properly understand why), seems to get VERY poor quality comments on it. With much bickering and other bad stuff. I often/usually ignore the youtube comments.
But they are sometimes useful/helpful.
E.g. What is the name of the music used as the backtrack, for this persons youtube video. Hopefully someone will say.
Or where do you buy that thing/tool used in the video and what exactly is it called.

[s8548a]

Hi,

I want to change my forum user name, I could't find an option under profile settings.

Please help.

[Ampera]

Why won't this post DIE?

It's kinda funny really, a post about deleting your account gets neroposted

Anyways to answer some stuff I never did:

Look, may be self-account-deletion is the only way to regain honor after making a ridiculous reply or wrote something stupid?

Kind of an electronic version of the seppuku that the OP wanted to do?

One last sake, and off with this logon...

I have wanted to virtually kill myself numerously times on this forum. All I did to overcome is it realize that most everything that is posted here is forgotten for the most part, and that nobody would begrudge me for stupid shit I said, largely because nobody has stable ground to talk upon.

Sorry, I like neat squares of two.

You'll never be prime material. 

Sorry, I like neat squares of two.

Then how about you go for 16 or 64.

E.g. 4926573257483685

Or how about
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For the record this was done on my HP Prime (And of course not copied over by hand)

[MK14]

Which equals 2^8210

[Ampera]

For a hand calculator I think that's pretty good.

[MK14]

For a hand calculator I think that's pretty good.

For a hand calculator, that is very impressive. Most calculators, struggle to get much beyond their display digits limit.

[shodan@micron]

Dear Global Moderator Halcyon, now all my threads(except only one) been vanished totally, i no longer pose a threat to either privacy Australian law or the privacy yours local cal labs like as TiN. You can UNwatched now and delete my account.

[daqq]

Dear Global Moderator Halcyon, now all my threads(except only one) been vanished totally, i no longer pose a threat to either privacy Australian law or the privacy yours local cal labs like as TiN. You can UNwatched now and delete my account.

[Gyro]

Pretty unusual for somebody from the Metrology section to undergo an accelerated pram clear-out. They're usually the calmer folks around here!

[magic]

But he only deleted posts from his own threads

[vad]

Maybe it is related to this? https://fortune.com/2021/07/13/revil-ransomware-offline-dark-web/
Tsar Putin ordered his hackers and Internet trolls to retreat?

[Zero999]

A similar concept (so called strikes) does not seem to work well on Youtube, does it ?

I was only joking.
The potential for flamewars and other upsets, would make it unlikely to succeed, here.

Youtube somehow (I DON'T properly understand why), seems to get VERY poor quality comments on it. With much bickering and other bad stuff. I often/usually ignore the youtube comments.
But they are sometimes useful/helpful.
E.g. What is the name of the music used as the backtrack, for this persons youtube video. Hopefully someone will say.
Or where do you buy that thing/tool used in the video and what exactly is it called.

YouTube has an AI post removal system, which is supposed to be targetted at hateful, racist, sexist, homophobic etc. posts, but often lets through really racist posts and blocks ones which aren't. Interestingly, if your post is blocked, it lets you think it's posted, until you hit the refresh button and it's gone. I don't comment much on YouTube now because of the random censorship and when I do, I always copy-paste to a text editor, so I can revise the post, if it's blocked. I often have to resort to misspelling certain words, in order for it to get accepted.

[daqq]

Maybe it is related to this? https://fortune.com/2021/07/13/revil-ransomware-offline-dark-web/
Tsar Putin ordered his hackers and Internet trolls to retreat?

Ah, yes, the only conceivable reason a Russian person that has shared interesting and useful information, provided a lot of knowledge in highly specific areas for no reward leaves is that Putin ordered him to

You do understand the concept that not every Russian is out there to hack you and thwart the Glorious American Dream, right? Right?

[vad]

Maybe it is related to this? https://fortune.com/2021/07/13/revil-ransomware-offline-dark-web/
Tsar Putin ordered his hackers and Internet trolls to retreat?

Ah, yes, the only conceivable reason a Russian person that has shared interesting and useful information, provided a lot of knowledge in highly specific areas for no reward is that Putin ordered him to

You do understand the concept that not every Russian is out there to hack you and thwart the Glorious American Dream, right? Right?

This is heading off topic, but you should really direct your questions to comrade major (товарищ майор).

[magic]

You do understand the concept that not every Russian is out there to hack you and thwart the Glorious American Dream, right? Right?

They don't and it's funny, please stop disturbing those people.