Can anyone help with this? From what I've gotten from google I'm meant to contact PG somehow.<p>It's not exactly clear how and if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox I'd like to try that first.<p>Edit: Thanks for the tip - title changed, hopefully that helps.
Sorry to those who are curious, but I'm not going to state my reason - it's not all that personal but is still well with in the realm of "my own business". Surely it's not a prerequisite for deleting an account.<p>If I knew that there wasn't a standard way to delete accounts I probably wouldn't have signed up in the first place. It might help keep the number of temporary accounts, so there's a chance that it's a feature.<p>The current plan is to wait a while longer, then I'll send PG an email.<p>A point that I find interesting is that if I didn't care about the community at all I could probably exit the site very rapidly by way of a submission script - not my style, but does make me wonder if it's been tried before. I'm sure it's quicker than an exchange of emails :) And it remains an option if nothing else will do the trick.
Considering how even non-personal information becomes identifiable in aggregate, this is a feature that any social site with a conscience should have. Otherwise, the risk to privacy is both impossible to gauge and continuously growing.
I'm not even sure if that possibility exists but since your account does not seem to be attached to anything personal as far as I can see and since you have barely posted / commented here what is the reason you want it deleted ?<p>Keep in mind that deleting an account means that all the replies to your comments / submissions would be left 'hanging' in space.
Edit your title to add <i>Ask PG</i>. Hopefully PG will read those.<p>If you don't mind me asking, can we know why anyone would want to delete their account?
Just post two ironically abusive comments and before long you're banned with no appeal or explanation, worked for me.<p>(or that's what I think happened - they even let you post for 2 weeks without telling you no-one can read it!)
i did mail pg with a similar request (different account), and he essentially responded that he could not be bothered to implement deletion or do it manually.