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03/23/2008 01:22:24 PM · #1 |
| Either I'm blind... or it's just not all that obvious... but how do I close my account on this site? |
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03/23/2008 01:25:10 PM · #2 |
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03/23/2008 01:29:40 PM · #3 |
I really don't see how this is a troll. It's not in the FAQ.
I, personally, get very angry at sites which refuse to make it obvious how one can leave. I've never wanted to leave DPC, but I've been around long enough to know how to; it seems unreasonable to expect the same of someone who just joined up for a while to have a look around.
edit: comment seems to have been removed.
However, my point still stands. Perhaps I missed it, but assuming I didn't, could a further question be added to the FAQ telling people how to close their accounts?
In my experience, when I'm done with a website or service it's not always permanent and it often won't stop me suggesting the site to others. If I have to spend time trying to find out how to leave, it becomes a completely different story.
Message edited by author 2008-03-23 13:33:58. |
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03/23/2008 01:34:31 PM · #4 |
No one needs our permission to "just leave" and there's no harm whatsoever in them leaving their accounts active. Account cancellation is completely unncessary, but we will accommodate those who wish to do so anyway.
~Terry
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03/23/2008 01:42:00 PM · #5 |
A lot of people prefer not to leave unused accounts lying around. I know DPC is very good at not asking for personal details and so on, but just as you have a right to suspend or ban members, they should have the right to cancel their accounts.
I just don't see what harm it could do to add a little bit of text that says something like this:
'If you wish your account to be closed please PM the Site Council'. |
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03/23/2008 01:53:02 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by zarniwoop:
A lot of people prefer not to leave unused accounts lying around. I know DPC is very good at not asking for personal details and so on, but just as you have a right to suspend or ban members, they should have the right to cancel their accounts.
I just don't see what harm it could do to add a little bit of text that says something like this:
'If you wish your account to be closed please PM the Site Council'. |
We get account closure requests through the Help>Contact Us link at the top of the home page at least once a week, so people are not having a hard time figuring out how to close an account. In cases where it is not apparent to the user, they always have the option of asking in the public forums, as the OP did.
Message edited by author 2008-03-23 13:54:32. |
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03/23/2008 02:20:11 PM · #7 |
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
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03/23/2008 02:25:38 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
Agreed, Looks to me like a troll account so close it down fast.
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03/23/2008 02:28:38 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
With attitude like this, no wonder the OP doesn't want to stick around. Luckily, this does not represent the majority of DPCers. |
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03/23/2008 02:33:34 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
Check your math. She's been registered for over a year.
~Terry
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03/23/2008 02:35:31 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
Originally posted by kirbic:
With attitude like this, no wonder the OP doesn't want to stick around. Luckily, this does not represent the majority of DPCers. |
Now wait a minute.......can you honestly say that this person remotely gave either themselves a chance to acclimate or the site a chance to help them?
I know when I got into voting at first, it sure wasn't 4s......
ETA: Never mind......assumed the math was correct on the six days thing.
DEFINITELY a troll.
Message edited by author 2008-03-23 14:36:45. |
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03/23/2008 02:35:36 PM · #12 |
I thought you had to start a ridiculous thread, launch diatribe about unjust treatment, troll voting, poor comments, bias and discrimination on the part of the SC, compare those who don't rise up in your support as so many mindless lemmings, incite those who do support you into actions leading to suspension, and categorize those who actively oppose you as fascists.
Then, after going out in a blaze of glory, threaten legal action against DPC unless they close your account.
That approach kinda makes just making a simple request to the SC seem anticlimactic. |
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03/23/2008 02:37:54 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
I thought you had to start a ridiculous thread, launch diatribe about unjust treatment, troll voting, poor comments, bias and discrimination on the part of the SC, compare those who don't rise up in your support as so many mindless lemmings, incite those who do support you into actions leading to suspension, and categorize those who actively oppose you as fascists.
Then, after going out in a blaze of glory, threaten legal action against DPC unless they close your account.
That approach kinda makes just making a simple request to the SC seem anticlimactic. |
ROTFLMSOAO!!!!! |
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03/23/2008 02:42:19 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by eyewave:
Just for the record: Someone who has been registered for only 6 days, cast 71 votes with an average of 4.0000 and then unregisters the site looks very much like a troll to me. Might also be she thinks the photography presented here is below her level, it's hard to believe of someone without a camera, though.
Now go on and delete this post again. |
Originally posted by kirbic:
With attitude like this, no wonder the OP doesn't want to stick around. Luckily, this does not represent the majority of DPCers. |
Now wait a minute.......can you honestly say that this person remotely gave either themselves a chance to acclimate or the site a chance to help them?
I know when I got into voting at first, it sure wasn't 4s......
ETA: Never mind......assumed the math was correct on the six days thing.
DEFINITELY a troll. |
I know several people who are registered here for quite some time who have maybe voted in a challenge or two, but no longer vote and only come by to look at the photos. They don't post, they rarely (if ever) vote, they don't enter challenges, they just come to look and admire. |
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03/23/2008 02:43:20 PM · #15 |
Because of the way the site is structured, we normally don't "close" accounts routinely -- there is no need to. Users control the content on their Profile page, and the only personal information the site requires one to reveal is one's username. User participation is an integral part of the site. If someone registers and votes, it doesn't seem right to go back some weeks later and make it apppear that that someone never existed -- are we supposed to recalculate every challenge result every time someone decides they're done here?
I think the TOS makes it clear that one's participation here becomes part of the permanent record of the site. Even if it didn't, with the way the internet is archived, it will exist somewhere on a pretty much permanent basis. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is ... |
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03/23/2008 02:46:58 PM · #16 |
Hard to see the OP as a troll: 71 votes cast in a year, no comments. And, do trolls make such polite requests in forums?
I woulda thought a troll would be casting thousands of votes, spewing venom in hundreds of comments and forum posts.
Seems to me like she just didn't make much use of this site, for whatever reason that might be.... |
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03/23/2008 03:01:27 PM · #17 |
Message edited by author 2008-03-23 15:02:02. |
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03/23/2008 03:02:38 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Check your math. She's been registered for over a year.
~Terry |
Sorry to all involved, I seem to be living in the past (thought it was 6 days when it was 1 year and six days) |
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03/23/2008 03:39:04 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Because of the way the site is structured, we normally don't "close" accounts routinely -- there is no need to. Users control the content on their Profile page, and the only personal information the site requires one to reveal is one's username. User participation is an integral part of the site. If someone registers and votes, it doesn't seem right to go back some weeks later and make it apppear that that someone never existed -- are we supposed to recalculate every challenge result every time someone decides they're done here?
I think the TOS makes it clear that one's participation here becomes part of the permanent record of the site. Even if it didn't, with the way the internet is archived, it will exist somewhere on a pretty much permanent basis. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is ... |
Fair enough. |
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03/23/2008 04:34:06 PM · #20 |
This thread would be more interesting (no offense to those that posted) if the SC were to edit the original post to read:
After being here for a year I have decided you all are a bunch of Neanderthals and not worthy of my time. Your photography is boring, your sense of humor is moronic and your post processing skills are abhorrent. Being here for a year has made me dumber just for signing up. My friends, real photographers- not the rabble found here, told me this was a waste of my time. How right they were. Had I lowered myself to post you could've seen what real photogrpahy is, as it is I am glad that I only took the time to cast 71 votes (all 4's as that is all the photography- and I so very much use that term loosely- here is worth). I have seen better art coughed up by my cats Boris and Natasha after they spent a day rummaging in the garbage. And the endless discussions, about which camera system is better, spare me one more of these (as anyone with any class knows it is Hassleblad or nothing). I am certainly glad that I did not waste one moment on this site leaving a comment.
How about it SC, flex those muscles and pump up the juiceiness of this thread! Things have been a little slow around here lately.
:) (please note smiley face intended to show that the above comments do not reflect the real opinions- to the best of my knowledge- of the original poster or myself)
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03/23/2008 05:42:58 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
This thread would be more interesting (no offense to those that posted) if the SC were to edit the original post to read:
After being here for a year I have decided you all are a bunch of Neanderthals and not worthy of my time. Your photography is boring, your sense of humor is moronic and your post processing skills are abhorrent. Being here for a year has made me dumber just for signing up. My friends, real photographers- not the rabble found here, told me this was a waste of my time. How right they were. Had I lowered myself to post you could've seen what real photogrpahy is, as it is I am glad that I only took the time to cast 71 votes (all 4's as that is all the photography- and I so very much use that term loosely- here is worth). I have seen better art coughed up by my cats Boris and Natasha after they spent a day rummaging in the garbage. And the endless discussions, about which camera system is better, spare me one more of these (as anyone with any class knows it is Hassleblad or nothing). I am certainly glad that I did not waste one moment on this site leaving a comment.
How about it SC, flex those muscles and pump up the juiceiness of this thread! Things have been a little slow around here lately.
:) (please note smiley face intended to show that the above comments do not reflect the real opinions- to the best of my knowledge- of the original poster or myself) |
Much better, at least we know what the Op's post really was now!! Good Riddance! |
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03/23/2008 06:33:58 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
After being here for a year I have decided you all are a bunch of Neanderthals and not worthy of my time. Your photography is boring, your sense of humor is moronic and your post processing skills are abhorrent. Being here for a year has made me dumber just for signing up. My friends, real photographers- not the rabble found here, told me this was a waste of my time. How right they were. Had I lowered myself to post you could've seen what real photogrpahy is, as it is I am glad that I only took the time to cast 71 votes (all 4's as that is all the photography- and I so very much use that term loosely- here is worth). I have seen better art coughed up by my cats Boris and Natasha after they spent a day rummaging in the garbage. And the endless discussions, about which camera system is better, spare me one more of these (as anyone with any class knows it is Hassleblad or nothing). I am certainly glad that I did not waste one moment on this site leaving a comment.
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Now I know that I was destined to be a member of DPC.
Even though SC periodically persecutes one of my heroes.
Burned the last one at the stake.
I sure hope Art doesn't become self-destructive.
I've not got many heros left here.
Although I'm starting to warm up to Eyewave. |
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03/23/2008 06:40:52 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by fir3bird:
Now I know that I was destined to be a member of DPC.
Even though SC periodically persecutes one of my heroes.
Burned the last one at the stake.
I sure hope Art doesn't become self-destructive.
I've not got many heros left here.
Although I'm starting to warm up to Eyewave. |
Thanks Walt. Love you too. :-\
~Terry
Message edited by author 2008-03-23 18:41:03.
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03/23/2008 06:53:51 PM · #24 |
troll or no troll. we should love everyone....
at the very least we shouldn't make assumptions. you likely know what happens when you ass-u-me ...
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03/23/2008 09:50:41 PM · #25 |
I never assume; I accept, I ascertain, I conclude, I conjecture, I consider, I divine, I deduce, I estimate, I hypothesize, I infer, I postulate, I presume, I speculate, I surmise, I suspect, I theorize and occasionally I robot. :)
Is it obvious I work for lawyers?
And fir3bird I will take that as a compliment. :)
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