Is it possible to delete my account and all its activity?
If I want my account to disappear with all its questions, comments...etc. from the stackexchange website is that possible?
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$\begingroup$ @T.Bongers I am not sure this is duplicate. The difference I see is (emphasis mine): If I want my account to disappear with all its questions, comments...etc. from the stackexchange website is that possible? (I have edited the title to make this point more obvious.) $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakMar 31, 2016 at 5:46
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$\begingroup$ @MartinSleziak Yes exactly $\endgroup$– user326676Mar 31, 2016 at 5:46
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$\begingroup$ My mistake, thanks @MartinSleziak. To the OP: No, it is not possible to do that. The questions that have been answered (where the answers have positive score) cannot be deleted by you, and will not be deleted if your account is. You can self-delete your comments. $\endgroup$– user296602Mar 31, 2016 at 5:49
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$\begingroup$ @T.Bongers To be more precise, if an account is deleted, even answered questions are deleted if they are negatively scored. See here and here. $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakMar 31, 2016 at 5:51
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$\begingroup$ Right, and in the case of the OP all the posts are at least zero-scored. $\endgroup$– user296602Mar 31, 2016 at 5:53
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1$\begingroup$ You apparently registered six days ago and you want to delete your account. This is probably the strangest thing to me. Let me ask a question : why did you register ? $\endgroup$– Claude LeiboviciApr 2, 2016 at 14:40
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No, it is not possible to erase every content you posted on SE. When you created your account, you agreed to this:
You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You.
The software itself will prevent you from deleting your questions with upvoted answers, accepted answers, and/or multiple answers. Moderators get (AFAIK) some kind of notification when a user starts deleting a large number of their own questions and answers, and typically revert the actions in question. Your questions and answers with a negative score will be deleted when your account is deleted, though. For more information about all this, see this link.
I guess you could start deleting all your comments; I don't know if moderators are notified of this, so maybe it will get under the radar. I have to say I don't really see the point though.
answered Mar 31, 2016 at 8:19
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3$\begingroup$ Honestly, you posted only four questions on this website. What are you worrying about? $\endgroup$ Mar 31, 2016 at 8:21