V. Important Question
Does anyone know if there's any way to completely delete a fanfiction.net account? Not just the stories; the whole account.
I finally decided to get off my lazy arse and look into it about a month or so ago (something I've been planning to do for literal years on and off), but as far as I could tell you can only remove your stories, not your entire account. But then the Pit has never been the greatest for organization, IMO, so it's entirely possible there's a button or link or something I'm just missing. If so, somebody please tell me. I would very much appreciate it.
(It has been, no lie, at least four years since I've updated anything over there. At least four years since I've edited anything, author info included. At least four years since I've even signed in - recent attempt to purge notwithstanding. You'd think that would clue people in. But even now I get semi-frequent messages in my Hotmail inbox asking if I plan to update any of my stories any time soon. [Needless to say, ol' DQ had a serious problem with WIPs back in the day. You wanna know why everything I do nowadays is a one-shot with the incredibly rare exceptions of only recently, well, there you go. And the only one that wasn't a WIP was intended to have a sequel, which I foolishly made note of at the story's conclusion, so that one's in effect a WIP anyway.]
Or at least I assume that's what most of them are asking - I delete everything forwarded to me from FF.net without reading it. That's been my automatic action, again, for years. I just...don't care about anything I did that's associated with that site anymore.
You have no idea how much it would annoy me to learn there is no way to just purge the entire thing from the internet. I'm not sure what I would do if that was the case; probably systematically delete all my stories, everything I could to near-accomplish making the account a complete blank. Then I'd remove all my contact info - if that's even possible - and remove my author profile in lieu of a short blurb explaining that I hadn't worked on anything attached to that account in years, had no intention to and no desire to be connected with it any longer, and in order to stave off any further questions was deleting the account to the best of my ability rather than deal with it any longer.
Needless to say, it would be much preferable if all I had to do was push one goddamned button.)
I finally decided to get off my lazy arse and look into it about a month or so ago (something I've been planning to do for literal years on and off), but as far as I could tell you can only remove your stories, not your entire account. But then the Pit has never been the greatest for organization, IMO, so it's entirely possible there's a button or link or something I'm just missing. If so, somebody please tell me. I would very much appreciate it.
(It has been, no lie, at least four years since I've updated anything over there. At least four years since I've edited anything, author info included. At least four years since I've even signed in - recent attempt to purge notwithstanding. You'd think that would clue people in. But even now I get semi-frequent messages in my Hotmail inbox asking if I plan to update any of my stories any time soon. [Needless to say, ol' DQ had a serious problem with WIPs back in the day. You wanna know why everything I do nowadays is a one-shot with the incredibly rare exceptions of only recently, well, there you go. And the only one that wasn't a WIP was intended to have a sequel, which I foolishly made note of at the story's conclusion, so that one's in effect a WIP anyway.]
Or at least I assume that's what most of them are asking - I delete everything forwarded to me from FF.net without reading it. That's been my automatic action, again, for years. I just...don't care about anything I did that's associated with that site anymore.
You have no idea how much it would annoy me to learn there is no way to just purge the entire thing from the internet. I'm not sure what I would do if that was the case; probably systematically delete all my stories, everything I could to near-accomplish making the account a complete blank. Then I'd remove all my contact info - if that's even possible - and remove my author profile in lieu of a short blurb explaining that I hadn't worked on anything attached to that account in years, had no intention to and no desire to be connected with it any longer, and in order to stave off any further questions was deleting the account to the best of my ability rather than deal with it any longer.
Needless to say, it would be much preferable if all I had to do was push one goddamned button.)