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How can I delete my profile on answerbag?

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by Anonymous on May 15th, 2006

Answers. 215 helpful answers below.

  • hope and peace
    hope and peace Jan 1st, 2008 Go to your profile and under preferences de-select the email notifications, and then just stop signing in. Sorry to see you go!

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  • Doggie S
    Doggie S Dec 5th, 2007 You can't delete your account.

    Just rename yourself Anonymous, change your avatar to a blue bag, and don't come back.

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  • Arisztid in a COAT of Rromani awareness
    Arisztid in a COAT of Rromani awareness Jul 5th, 2007 This has been answered well in this thread. I also have read the comment threads and have to say this...

    I understand why you feel this way, although I do not know specifics.

    Many people DO need to learn that a kind word goes much farther than a slap. Mocking and ridicule is also not needed.

    One thing you can do if someone is bothering you is write to AB staff via the feedback link. Also, if you know someone is an *ss, do not reply to them.

    I hope things turn out ok for you.

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  • idne
    idne Jul 5th, 2007 You can delete what's in your profile by clicking on Edit My Profile/Avatar and deleting any info that you have on there. You can also edit your answers and some of your questions by putting dots in their place. But, you can't delete the profile completely. I hope you haven't had a bad experience that has led you to decide to do something so drastic.

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  • idne
    idne Feb 7th, 2008 What's wrong? Can I help? I can tell you that you can't delete your stuff. You can edit answers but the rest stays.

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  • AB-Joel
    AB-Joel Nov 16th, 2006 We don't allow people to actually delete profiles, but if you just set your display name to "Anonymous" and turn off the notifications, the account cannot be identified as yours, so it's as good as deleting it!

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  • Jodie44
    Jodie44 Mar 7th, 2008 Answerbag doesn't work like that. You don't close your account - you more or less abandon your account by not logging on any more. That way, if you change your mind and decide to come back, you can pick up where you left off.

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  • tomsims
    tomsims May 28th, 2007 Not meaning to offend, but this sort of thing always baffles me. It is a free service and they do not track you down or send you a bill. Just stop participating. There is no need to cancel a membership. It is merely access. By asking the question, you will be notified by e-mail of posted answers. By not posting anything, you will eventually stop getting notifications. We will miss you though.

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  • ......
    ...... Mar 7th, 2008 You can send a feedback to the staff and request they delete you. I have heard others doing this.

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  • gazzob666
    gazzob666 Feb 7th, 2008 y do people make a big deal bou leaving dis. its free isnt it?

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  • Jodie44
    Jodie44 Feb 7th, 2008 No, not fast, why? What happened, Saved?

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  • Worzel
    Worzel Jan 6th, 2008 Change your profile name to anonymous and dont ever come back....that ought to do it.

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  • Da Azian Boi
    Da Azian Boi Jan 1st, 2008 You can just leave and never come back, or you can ask the staff to delete your account.

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  • Jodie44
    Jodie44 Jan 1st, 2008 The obvious - stop logging on. Walk off into the cyber-sunset and don't look back.

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  • maowiwoi
    maowiwoi Oct 23rd, 2007 Could you not just get rid of your e-mail notifications and then not come here aymore?

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  • Norman_Outside the lines
    Norman_Outside the lines Nov 27th, 2006 Go to "my computer, No Mine not yours"
    Pull the plug, Hold above head, Swiftly hurll twords concrete floor, (CRASH) and then sweep up the pieces
    (as the song says "theres no way out of here, when you come in your in for good" !!) LOL

    ( kidding... I have no clue ask jeeves! lol

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  • Da Azian Boi
    Da Azian Boi Jun 3rd, 2008 You can't delete it, but you can ask the Staff to delete it for you.

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  • misshell on fire
    misshell on fire Mar 7th, 2008 you can't unless you get some lawyers

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  • Doggie S
    Doggie S Feb 17th, 2008 No, they will remain here as long as Answerbag exists.

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  • Rince
    Rince Jan 6th, 2008 Nope you can change your name to anonomous, and not come back, but the questions and answers you have given are here to stay.

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  • Chezter is going to save the Redheads
    Chezter is going to save the Redheads Oct 23rd, 2007 I think it's hilarious that people are giving points to someone who wants to leave :-)

    +2 hehe

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  • Doggie S
    Doggie S Oct 23rd, 2007 Your AB membership? No, you can't.

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  • Starmaster
    Starmaster May 28th, 2007 Looks like this is like checking into Hotel California. "AB is programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!".....

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  • anonymous
    anonymous Apr 3rd, 2007 I would not recommend that you do so... you'll probably find you regret the decision.

    There are some legal implications to any effort to remove your entries.

    You agreed when signing up for AB that any content you submitted was the property of AB, and grant them license to reproduce, publicly display that information, edit, change or delete it at their discretion.

    If you try to delete your entries or edit them to be nonsensical, they have the ability and legal authority to restore your submissions to a previous state stored on their back up systems.

    Similarly, with the user account, the information is stored on their servers, not locally on your computer. You can not delete that information from their servers.

    You may be able to change your account profile, perhaps change the password to a random unknown one, effectively cutting you off from accessing your account.

    This would keep you off AB, unless you requested an email sent to your address with a reminder.

    Anyways, even if you go through all the work of editing your 160+ answers, you can't edit your questions, you can't edit peoples ratings left for you, or their comments, or your comments.

    Much of your content will be left, and anything you are able to destroy can be restored quite easily.

    Your stuck here! Rather, your content is.

    My advice is to just stop using it for a while if you are unhappy, but don't take any action to damage AB. It is ineffective, and the only lasting effect is that if you want to return in the future
    you may limited access.

    I did remove over 700 answers and definitions, and something even worse than the frustration of being unable to delete them... they were deleted, they didn't restore them from archives, and they can never be recovered.

    Very sad, learn from my mistakes, don't do it.

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  • Carmella
    Carmella Apr 3rd, 2007 You can't delete your profile.

    You can:
    - Change your nickname to 'Anonymous'
    - change your avatar back to the blue generic one
    - Stop AB sending you any correspondence via email
    - Never log in again

    Then it'll be like you were never here, almost.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Feb 28th, 2007 Keep quiet and don't type anymore and you will disappear.

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  • bigkado69
    bigkado69 Jan 31st, 2007 Just dont ever use it..lol

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  • ilvmuhgameboy
    ilvmuhgameboy Jan 31st, 2007 Geeze! i wish i could!!!!!!

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  • BigDaddyBS
    BigDaddyBS Jan 31st, 2010 Nope... And you can't.

    The idea of AB is to create a database of questions and answers. If they allowed everyone to remove their questions or answers, then what would that accomplish.

    Just consider that they will help someone, somewhere, sometime. ;-)

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  • gtravels loves her life penguin
    gtravels loves her life penguin Apr 9th, 2009 Technically you can't. You can change your user name to Anonymous, your Avatar to a blue Answerbag and fade off into the sunset. More information here:
    http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/55965

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  • Galeanda
    Galeanda Mar 18th, 2009 You can't. All it takes is for you to not show up here anymore. But once you submit content here, especially as a question, it becomes the property of the website.

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  • Account Closed
    Account Closed Jan 22nd, 2009 You can't unless you can convince the staff in nuking your account. You can do this by using the feedback found at the bottom of the page of your profile. good luck.

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  • Brian I
    Brian I Sep 23rd, 2008 Go to your profile, remove any personal information, remove everybody from your friends list, change your name to anonymous and revert to the generic blue bag avatar. That's probably the closest you'll get to deleting your account.

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  • Brian I
    Brian I Aug 23rd, 2008 To answer the point you made in your answer, go to your Profile page, click on the 'My Settings' tab and then click on 'Account'. You will be able to change your email address without having to unsubscribe.

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  • Brian I
    Brian I Aug 23rd, 2008 Just stop logging in. There's no need to do anything else.

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  • Stillme FBB
    Stillme FBB Jun 3rd, 2008 What's the hurry??????? Are you in trouble?

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  • anonymous
    anonymous Apr 10th, 2008 It's like being in the mafia!! Once your in your in for life!!!

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  • Firebrand
    Firebrand Jan 6th, 2008 You can request Admin@Answerbag.com to delete your account but you cannot do it yourself.

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  • VOD
    VOD Jan 6th, 2008 you CAN, but I think you meant to ask "MAY I"... and no you may not. Sit back down and get to answering some questions.

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  • Doggie S
    Doggie S Jan 6th, 2008 No you can't

    Just stop logging in and forget about it.

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  • Jennie thanks all of you ABers
    Jennie thanks all of you ABers Dec 11th, 2007 You want to leave us??

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  • HDev is living On tHE EdgE
    HDev is living On tHE EdgE Dec 7th, 2007 You cannot delete your account as if you could then your questions,answers,comments should also have to be deleted. But they can't as they are helpful to other people like you. What you can do is this:

    Remove your avatar, set your account to anonymous, throw your password out of your mind, forget about the account.

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  • GiraffeyedDonor-ish
    GiraffeyedDonor-ish Dec 5th, 2007 I may be wrong but I don't think there's anything you can do about it. If you don't want people to know who you are and leave, you can change yourself to "anonymous", change your picture to a generic picture and leave...

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  • RosieGHM Jetpacker
    RosieGHM Jetpacker Oct 27th, 2007 Why? :(

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  • Meow Meow 1BadMutha  TBMF
    Meow Meow 1BadMutha TBMF Oct 26th, 2007 WTF?

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  • Da Azian Boi
    Da Azian Boi Oct 26th, 2007 You could ask the Staff to do it. But, Sheep, why??

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  • Crazy is looking 4 Imperfections.
    Crazy is looking 4 Imperfections. Oct 25th, 2007 Now why would you do such a thing?!

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  • Crazy is looking 4 Imperfections.
    Crazy is looking 4 Imperfections. Oct 23rd, 2007 Now why would you do a thing like that? Didn't you read the contract? Once you sign that's it!There is no turning back!

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  • Fun
    Fun Jul 5th, 2007 You cannot delete your profile. Just don't log on.

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  • PrettyPirate
    PrettyPirate May 9th, 2007 You can't actually delete your account.

    The most you can do is stop signing in and actively participating, allowing your account to become inactive.

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