Wish for deletion/anonymization of my account

Hey, I’m sorry to hear about the frustrating experience with the forum here. I also recognize that you should have gotten a response sooner.

Let me start by trying to explain why you’re finding it difficult to delete your account. There is some logic why that’s not the case.

You created a post with this account in Jan 2024. This one: Ansible trying to use root user to ssh instead of host_var user?

If you were to delete your account, that would also destroy the content of your post. As another person has pointed out in the main discourse forum, “user deletion is a destructive process that can cause topics to become unhelpful or even misleading with gaps in the discussion. As the amount of activity on the user increases, so too does the chance of this being a problem.”

To my mind that helps explain our default setting for user deletion:

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I see you’ve said a preference for full deletion. However I have just anonymized your account, which should remove your account details like email and profile.

Hopefully this will be an acceptable solution.

Cheers!