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[AVP vs The Terminator]

It's a *vulgarity*ing website. Not having the option to delete an anonymous account is not illegal.

[LoneWolf]

Because when you come back, you're going to make a new account and multi-accounting is against the rules. I think you are being a bit over dramatic. This is a website for arguing comic characters' fights. Just take that for what it's worth.

[AVP vs The Terminator]

I curse because I get frustrated whenever I see someone post a really stupid question. Yes, the accounts are anonymous. You don't need to give your name, address, phone number or whatever, just your e-mail.

Seriously, there are thousands of websites that use this system. Why are you complaining here?

[sirmethos]

Our accounts are not anonymous in the first place if we have to register..

Registration does not require you to give your Name, Address, Social Security number, or any other personal information.

Yes, all accounts are anonymous.

Thus, there are no legal rights.

[bigballerju]

Damn Anu you complain too much. What information are you talking about? Your IP Address? Thats the only thing they have on here and no matter where you go on the internet almost all websites will have it.

[deojusto]

You can't ask a question here I guess...

Not if its not a question and just an excuse to whine. See number seven http://www.cracked.c...ent-techniques/

It seems socialist.

This I have an actual problem with. I really hope you're trolling or this is some kind of in joke.

I couldn't care less about your inability to delete your account, and if not for this statement would have left without bothering to respond. But just because you don't like something, does not make it socialist. Socialism actually means something, its not just a word you can attach to any everyday problem. It is an economic and political system that focuses on collective ownership of the means of production. It has 100% nothing to do with you wanting to delete your account on some website.

[silversurfer092]

Can someone tell me why this forum..

Denies you the right to delete your account if you want to leave?

Legally how can they deny the deletion of your account if you want it?

You can ban somebody but not erase their account if they want to leave willfully? How is that fair to the person and not an infringement upon their rights?

Please explain this because nobody's information should be retained on a forum if they don't want it, it seems pointless to me for a forum to deny someone deleting their profile and email if they choose to. I see no need for the retaining of that information.

So legally why can you keep that?

If you leave any other company in the US that you do business with its no problem. People change phone companies, power companies, brokers and the like all the time and if they ask to be cancelled they can..

Again it just seems wrong. I am not asking this because I am saying I want to leave the forum yet it does not seem legally fair to people to do this to them. It seems socialist.

I have never wanted to punch a baby this much.

If you're really complaining about this, then you're an idiot. Ask an admin to delete it. If it can't be deleted, then delete/edit all your info that is on the site. Pretty simple shit, if you ask me. Do you know socialist even means? There is no part of this that is socialist, as deojusto has said. Even more so, why are you attempting to use socialist as an insult? Are you some Bill O'Reilly fanboy? Do you know anything about the real world?

[Ruinus]

Anu, since you are actually asking a question that sounds interesting to me, I'll reply as best as I can. First off, here is the Terms of Use that everyone agreed to to register for this site.

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Now, as for your questions, hope you don't mind but I numbered them for easy reference. Keep in mind that I'm no lawyer, so this is going off of my best guess:

Can someone tell me why this forum..

• Denies you the right to delete your account if you want to leave?
• Legally how can they deny the deletion of your account if you want it?
• You can ban somebody but not erase their account if they want to leave willfully? How is that fair to the person and not an infringement upon their rights?
• Please explain this because nobody's information should be retained on a forum if they don't want it, it seems pointless to me for a forum to deny someone deleting their profile and email if they choose to. I see no need for the retaining of that information.
• So legally why can you keep that?
• If you leave any other company in the US that you do business with its no problem. People change phone companies, power companies, brokers and the like all the time and if they ask to be cancelled they can..

Again it just seems wrong. I am not asking this because I am saying I want to leave the forum yet it does not seem legally fair to people to do this to them. It seems socialist.

• While Terms of Use are legal contracts, they are only so if you sign them as your name. When you register to a website the ToS isn't legally binding to you so much as it is to whatever nickname you posted as or whatever email you registered with. I don't think you can be legally held accountable (except in extreme circumstances) to forum posts, since there'd probably be a tricky legal path invovled in showing that you (whatever your real name is) were actually the person who created the anu account on this website and used your email.
• Legally? I wouldn't know. But then again, I'm not sure how you can legally request all your forum posts to be removed. As silversurfer092 pointed out, you can go back and edit your own posts. So even if the admin himself (for whatever reason) didn't want to delete your posts, you could go back and change them all to be pure dots or gibberish if you chose.
• That would be entirely up to the admins or mods of the forum in question. Some forums actually do state that the posts are owned by the forum and not by the poster. On this forum there was never any mention of ownership. Also how is it an infringement on your rights if someone doesn't delete all your posts because you choose to leave?
• If you'd read the ToS it says that your "email, birth date and a username will be stored on the server" and that "E-mail addresses will not be sold, rented or leased to 3rd parties". So if you choose to leave at some point only your email, usename and birth date (and for all we know you could have used a fake birthdate) would be left on the server. It isn't going to be leaked to anyone else.
• Because you agreed to the ToS.
• That's different because those companies actually know who you are. They have your address, your Social Security number, your bank records, your bank account, your telephone. There is a massive difference between this site holding your user name, email and DoB and a real company holding your private personal information through legally binding documents.

[DamagingRob]

Ok. Where are you getting your facts? White Wraith wanted to have his account deleted awhile back, and his request was granted. Why he wanted this? Hell if I know; but you can have your account deleted, if you ask.

DamagEdit:

Oddly enough he requested to have his account removed.

[Hayesmeister5651]

FFS, why do people feel like they HAVE to be here. Just log off and don't log back on. I swear you and agustinaldo are twins. You guys sound the exact same. Matter of fact can someone check to see if Anu is another agustinaldo username?

[kainboa]

Nah, their two particular brands of stupidity are nothing alike, where Anu keep making long winded whining posts complaining about everything, Augustinaldo merely keeps making stupid remarks that have nothing to do with the various matches he comments on, and when he actually do comment on a match, he usually do so using a particularly moronic brand of 'logic' that leads him to a conclusion that normal logic wouldn't

[force_echo]

It's funny cause it's true.