Request for Account Deletion/Anonymization - How To?

[anon24556343]

Title explains itself – just want my data to be anonymized, or preferrably deleted

[Whitestrake (Matthew Fay)]

Hi @anon24556343, I’ve answered a similar question in another thread:

How to delete forum account?

Hi @MorgothSauron, In Discourse (our forum software), only new users with a very low number of posts can delete their accounts. As an alternative, you could message one of our forum administrators (see: About - Caddy Community), who can anonymize your account (the effects of which are outlined here: Anonymizing Users in Discourse - announcements - Discourse Meta). As an extra step we could also possibly suspend the account, removing its ability to log in.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Weird, we’ve never had this requested before and then we had two requests on the same day

Anyway, I can’t delete your account because it has posts, and I can’t delete all your posts because: “Can’t delete all posts because the user has more than 15 posts.” I think the best I can do is anonymize or suspend the account. That OK?

[anon24556343]

@matt

Weird, we’ve never had this requested before and then we had two requests on the same day

Genuinely not sure how that happened must be coincidence or something

@matt

Anyway, I can’t delete your account because it has posts, and I can’t delete all your posts because: “Can’t delete all posts because the user has more than 15 posts.” I think the best I can do is anonymize or suspend the account. That OK?

Yep, go ahead and anonymize all the data on this account.