Account deletion - Not possible, so... read this

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Mod.Zilla Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 06 Posts: 423 Credit: 6 RAC: 0	Message 59284 - Posted: 4 Feb 2009, 15:55:41 UTC Perhaps revising the thread title will force people to read the basic idea of this thread. Rosetta Informational Moderator: Mod.Zilla ID: 59284 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,812,737 RAC: 0	Message 59285 - Posted: 4 Feb 2009, 16:01:47 UTC - in response to Message 59284. Perhaps revising the thread title will force people to read the basic idea of this thread. Thank you ... I doubt it ... sigh ... It was like when I was writing the UBW, tons of search and it was worse than dragging a teen to school ... Oh well ... thanks for trying, let us see if it works ... a social experiment ... ID: 59285 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Deleted user Send message Joined: 13 Feb 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 59547 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 23:58:48 UTC I want my account to be deleted as soon as possible. Thank you in advance! ID: 59547 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,812,737 RAC: 0	Message 59553 - Posted: 14 Feb 2009, 10:13:36 UTC - in response to Message 59547. I want my account to be deleted as soon as possible. Thank you in advance! Ha! Nope ... changing the title did not work ... ID: 59553 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,169,305 RAC: 3,857	Message 59555 - Posted: 14 Feb 2009, 10:45:55 UTC - in response to Message 59547. I want my account to be deleted as soon as possible. Thank you in advance! Just go in and change your email address to something non existent and then your account is effectively gone. In Science nothing can be truly deleted, but your account can be orphaned by doing as I suggested. ID: 59555 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

ramostol Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 64 Credit: 584,052 RAC: 0	Message 59556 - Posted: 14 Feb 2009, 10:47:28 UTC Oh, we have to acknowledge humourous initiatives... I hope Deleted user at least finish his one wu. The project deserves that much, doesn't it? ;-) ID: 59556 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,169,305 RAC: 3,857	Message 59558 - Posted: 14 Feb 2009, 10:51:34 UTC - in response to Message 59556. Oh, we have to acknowledge humourous initiatives... I hope Deleted user at least finish his one wu. The project deserves that much, doesn't it? ;-) That WOULD be nice, he/she has an AMD Phenom II 940 with 4 gig of ram!! That thing would crunch! ID: 59558 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Joghurt Send message Joined: 12 Jul 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 62209 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 18:25:54 UTC Please delete my account. Thanks a lot! ID: 62209 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,169,305 RAC: 3,857	Message 62211 - Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 9:30:26 UTC - in response to Message 62209. Please delete my account. Thanks a lot! This is a Science Project, no deleting of data is allowed. What IS allowed though is for you to go into your account and change the info to gibberish. So in your case your user name right now is Joghurt, change it to djsijsp, for instance, change your email to me@myplace.biz, for example, and anything else to something else non existent. Essentially YOU are gone but the account stays as a place holder for the Science you did while here. Even if you crunched no units, you attached and are part of the stats. ID: 62211 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Andrey Mitrofanov Send message Joined: 30 Jun 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 35,083 RAC: 0	Message 62729 - Posted: 2 Aug 2009, 19:29:11 UTC Please delete my Rosetta@home account. Thank you! ID: 62729 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Murasaki Send message Joined: 20 Apr 06 Posts: 303 Credit: 511,418 RAC: 0	Message 62731 - Posted: 2 Aug 2009, 23:04:34 UTC - in response to Message 62729. Please delete my Rosetta@home account. Thank you! Read the first post in this thread. ID: 62731 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

deleted Send message Joined: 26 Apr 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,955 RAC: 0	Message 64930 - Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 12:06:08 UTC Hello please delete my account here i dont need him. thanks! ID: 64930 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1831 Credit: 119,627,225 RAC: 11,586	Message 64935 - Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 19:20:11 UTC amazing! ID: 64935 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,169,305 RAC: 3,857	Message 64943 - Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 10:07:27 UTC - in response to Message 64930. Hello please delete my account here i dont need him. thanks! In Science NOTHING gets deleted, your personal info can be changed so it no longer points to YOU, but the account will remain as long as the Project is around. Please read the first post in this thread!!! ID: 64943 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

sdasew3542 Send message Joined: 1 Aug 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 952 RAC: 0	Message 65674 - Posted: 29 Mar 2010, 16:15:14 UTC Please delete my account ID: 65674 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Konstantin Desyatkin Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,535,462 RAC: 0	Message 69031 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 5:14:54 UTC Please delete my account ID: 69031 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,169,305 RAC: 3,857	Message 69039 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 11:57:36 UTC - in response to Message 69031. Please delete my account Just go into it and change everything to something that is not you, even make the email address int something fake, then no one will ever know it was you. Of course if it WAS you that found that key piece of info, they will never be able to find you afterwards. But change away if you wish. ID: 69039 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Chris Holvenstot Send message Joined: 2 May 10 Posts: 220 Credit: 9,106,918 RAC: 0	Message 69046 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 18:24:08 UTC - in response to Message 69039. Hey Mikey - I'm not sure exactly what changing your information will do with regard to eliminating the connection between a user and the account he wants to leave behind. It is my understanding - quite possibly wrong - that you Cross Project ID will forever tie your Rosetta activity to you if you also participate in other BOINC projects. I would have to wonder why anyone would want to disassociate themselves from the work they did here - unless they were worried that the boss was going to find out that they had been lighting up the company's PC in the middle of the night. CH ID: 69046 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Murasaki Send message Joined: 20 Apr 06 Posts: 303 Credit: 511,418 RAC: 0	Message 69049 - Posted: 8 Jan 2011, 20:52:54 UTC - in response to Message 69046. It is my understanding - quite possibly wrong - that you Cross Project ID will forever tie your Rosetta activity to you if you also participate in other BOINC projects. Almost right. If you change your email address you get assigned a new cross-project ID for that account. If you have two projects with different IDs running on the same computer BOINC will eventually realise the error and assign the same ID to both projects. However if you never run the project again the IDs will never be linked. ID: 69049 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

[deleted account] Send message Joined: 17 Oct 10 Posts: 4 Credit: 3,397 RAC: 0	Message 70034 - Posted: 14 Apr 2011, 13:54:15 UTC Last modified: 14 Apr 2011, 13:55:23 UTC Hey, people! Hey! Hey, people! Do as Mod said: - go here: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/edit_email_form.php and change Your e-mail address to sth stupid (ex. 'deleted@account.com'), - go there: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/edit_user_info_form.php to delete Your additional info (country, postal (ZIP) code, URL) and also edit Your profile's name (as You cannot leave that field empty), so change it to sth similar to mine: '[deleted account]', - if You wish - visit that place: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/edit_passwd_form.php to change Your password to sth like ex. 'password'. Gosh... I wonder why mods could not write this like I wrote. Don't they know that today 90% people in the Internet have no idea what 'Account Preferences' mean...? Anyway - I have no time for Rosetta anymore, too. Gotta quit. It was an honour to serve Rosetta with all of You! Bye, guys! q:) ID: 70034 · Rating: 0 · rate: /