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Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:22 PM Jul 2019

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It would be a huge effort on your part to delete your entire account. CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jul 2019 #4
I know you are going to think this is crazy, but jberryhill Jul 2019 #2
Only newbie trolls that get zapped have their posts auto-removed. Autumn Jul 2019 #6
Oh, I'll have to revise my exit plan jberryhill Jul 2019 #11
This place is like the Hotel California. You've checked in and you can never leave. Sorry. Autumn Jul 2019 #16
Doesn't Roach Motel have the same motto? jberryhill Jul 2019 #17
That's a very valid point and comparison. Autumn Jul 2019 #19
Accounts are never deleted. Delete what you want and walk away. Autumn Jul 2019 #3
I don't think the admins delete accounts, but you can just ignore it and walk away. ... or you RKP5637 Jul 2019 #5
chill for 6 months, delete tempting bookmarks back to DU... Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jul 2019 #9
Delete all 1,232 posts. Ptah Jul 2019 #8
Why make an announcement? SHRED Jul 2019 #10
Why not just dig that a DUer needs a break? Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #12
Fair enough SHRED Jul 2019 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jul 2019 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Jul 2019 #14
Here you go pscot Jul 2019 #18
You could try the Walt Starr method Cirque du So-What Jul 2019 #20
You know... Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #21

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
1. It would be a huge effort on your part to delete your entire account.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:25 PM
Jul 2019

But you can walk away. Just log out, change your password to something indecipherable that you could not possibly remember...and

then you're gone.

Might I suggest that you take a breather? Many have done that and then returned, refreshed and ready to talk again.

Primary season is always brutal.

Do what is best for you.

Response to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
2. I know you are going to think this is crazy, but
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:26 PM
Jul 2019

The only surefire way to have every trace of you deleted is to be deemed a troll and get zapped. That way, all of your posts are auto-removed, and don’t show that you deleted them.

So, make it good.

Autumn

(44,762 posts)
6. Only newbie trolls that get zapped have their posts auto-removed.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:30 PM
Jul 2019

Freelancer has been here since 2013.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
11. Oh, I'll have to revise my exit plan
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:43 PM
Jul 2019

Autumn

(44,762 posts)
16. This place is like the Hotel California. You've checked in and you can never leave. Sorry.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:53 PM
Jul 2019
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
17. Doesn't Roach Motel have the same motto?
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:00 PM
Jul 2019

Autumn

(44,762 posts)
19. That's a very valid point and comparison.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:14 PM
Jul 2019

Autumn

(44,762 posts)
3. Accounts are never deleted. Delete what you want and walk away.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:26 PM
Jul 2019

Take care.

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
5. I don't think the admins delete accounts, but you can just ignore it and walk away. ... or you
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jul 2019

might want to keep it for just in case you want it again.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
7. chill for 6 months, delete tempting bookmarks back to DU...
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:36 PM
Jul 2019

DU has kicked my ass from time to time, starting way back in 2001 (yeah, my profile says 2008, but me alter-ego was here 7 yrs before that). The best strategy is to walk away for a spell, and then come back with gangbusters blazing!

Okay, even I have to question "gangbusters blazing"?

I just made it up. Sound pretty badass though, doesn't it??

Response to Dennis Donovan (Reply #7)

Ptah

(32,983 posts)
8. Delete all 1,232 posts.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:38 PM
Jul 2019

Sign out.

Happy trails!

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
10. Why make an announcement?
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:39 PM
Jul 2019

I don't understand.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
12. Why not just dig that a DUer needs a break?
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:47 PM
Jul 2019

At least you spared them the "don't let the door hit you" thing.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
15. Fair enough
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:52 PM
Jul 2019

Response to SHRED (Reply #10)

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pscot

(21,023 posts)
18. Here you go
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:12 PM
Jul 2019

Cirque du So-What

(25,812 posts)
20. You could try the Walt Starr method
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 08:23 PM
Jul 2019

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
21. You know...
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:17 PM
Jul 2019

The fucking news lately sucks so hard that even DU can no longer be a place of solace.

I really wouldn't use facetiousness when a fellow DUer is reaching out for some sort of comfort.

I'm close to that point myself. But I just wrote this song:

"Always to first to extend my hand, but when I needed help... everybody ran
I'd save you from drowning, do whatever I can but when I slipped myself... everybody ran

I've been trying to do the next right thing
Hoping for the good karma that it's gonna have to bring
But you know that it's all a mind fuck
Dissatisfactory luck

Looking for tomorrow it's another day
Watch me trip on the things I say
Safety's a luxury... when the current drags you out to sea..."


It's a jangle-pop tune - needs more stanzas.

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