How Do You Leave PP Forums?

[jyl]

Suppose you want to entirely delete your account and login - how do you do that?

[red-beard]

First, check in at a mental health facility, 'cause you'd have to be crazy to leave here!

I think you can contact a moderator. If they can't help, they can find someone who can.

[stomachmonkey]

Ask the admins to delete you.

[KFC911]

Like most addictions, quitin' is easy enough.... not ever returning is the hard part

....but eventually the success rate reaches 100% .

[john70t]

You can check out any time.

Close the cover, unplug the wire, say "'i quit the internet", and go get yer work done.

[island911]

Originally Posted by jyl

Suppose you want to entirely delete your account and login - how do you do that?

Just leave.
No need for big drama.
No need to make more work for the mod's because you are too weak to simply stop.

I've quit plenty of times. It's easy.

[pwd72s]

Yep, just log out & quit posting. I doubt anybody will really bring up any of your old posts. Especially after a week or two.

That's how I quit the early 911S registry board years ago. I doubt I've been a topic of conversation there since I left. Ditto R Gruppe.

[craigster59]

Maybe it's my interwebs ignorance, but didn't some threads get screwed up by someone deleting all their posts?

I'd just quit cold turkey and never come back. Just give it up. Pelicano non grata. Hasta la vista baby. Adios muchachos.

Wait, did someone just post something new in the "Random Pics" thread??

[island911]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Maybe it's my interwebs ignorance, but didn't some threads get screwed up by someone deleting all their posts?

Yes!

so annoying.

[Evans, Marv]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Yep, just log out & quit posting. I doubt anybody will really bring up any of your old posts. Especially after a week or two.

This. ^^^^^^^ I imagine if a person is going to quit something like this, it would be because he/she just lost interest. That kind of thing happens. I know there have been some dramatic exits based on the individual personalities of the persons, but I guess a normal exit would be the result of loss of interest - excluding death which sadly may be knocking on some doors around here considering some posts in the thread about age.

[rusnak]

I think you can delete your login by getting banned. But he did not ask about the past posts. Am I missing something here?

[red-beard]

Nope. Banning does not delete posts. Redufo and Fastpat posts are still there.

[Geronimo '74]

You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.

[ckelly78z]

Not strong enough to stay away...just say no !

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Maybe it's my interwebs ignorance, but didn't some threads get screwed up by someone deleting all their posts?

I'd just quit cold turkey and never come back. Just give it up. Pelicano non grata. Hasta la vista baby. Adios muchachos.

Wait, did someone just post something new in the "Random Pics" thread??

This. He spent a lot of time searching for all his posts, and managed to delete them or the mods did I have no idea. The old random pics threads and many others were just FUBAR and new threads had to be started to replace them.

One guy had possible legal problems and was trying to vanish his on-line life. I suspect that it completely impossible. Once is is posted on the internet, it is there forever. It may take more digging, but the way back machine has complete copies of old web sites.

Best practice, log off, delete your username & password on your list of passwords and never return.

[island911]

I'm fairly sure that he did not delete. - the delete feature is available only a few months back.

I think that he compelled Pelican to delete. - a hot mess for sure.

[stevej37]

How Do You Leave PP Forums?


If you do...can I please have your post count to add to mine?
I'm looking to start making the big bucks.

[Rusty Heap]

The first step of addiction, is admiting you have a problem.

[turn9]

Get the anti—PP vaccine. You may need a booster every now and then

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by island911

I'm fairly sure that he did not delete. - the delete feature is available only a few months back.

I think that he compelled Pelican to delete. - a hot mess for sure.

Many years ago one could indeed delete all of their posts .... and somebody did... thousands of them. A simple request to Wayne and a database command ... poof gone! I think mebbe all the deletes were "undone" later too .... if I remember the poster correctly. Nothing is ever "really deleted" from most databases .... or the Internet fwiw.