[dave_au]

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.

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.

The current plan is to wait a while longer, then I'll send PG an email.

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.

[jacquesm]

> 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.

Is that your way of threatening ?

> And it remains an option if nothing else will do the trick.

Oh, yes it seems it is.

Well, here's news for you:

A surefire way to get yourself banned, not deleted is such a script.

That means all your information from the past is just as visible as it is today.

And I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a reason if you ask someone to do work for you, it's the polite thing.

[rdtsc]

> I could probably exit the site very rapidly by way of a submission script

But that would certianly fall within the realm of "hacking"

[omouse]

It would fall under SPAMMING.